Background
Tom Bouden was born in Ostend, Belgium in 1971.
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Queerville
(This book presents very libertine contents in a "Tim-&-St...)
This book presents very libertine contents in a "Tim-&-Struppi" style as sweet as can be - that's Tom Bouden's speciality. After the reprint of the celebrated comic IN BED WITH DAVID & JONATHAN now comes the unofficial sequel to the Belgian happy-go-lucky tales with a reprint from QUEERVILLE. Bouden's stories are intelligent, sexy and as always close to real life!
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Max & Sven (Spanish Edition)
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Queerville by Tom Bouden (2015-10-30)
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Max and Sven by Tom Bouden (2004-06-20)
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Max and Sven
( Belgian-born comic artist Tom Bouden’s work has been sy...)
Belgian-born comic artist Tom Bouden’s work has been syndicated throughout Europe and published in Flemish, French, German, Dutch, and English. Bouden’s wonderful adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (2000) as a graphic novel earned him high praise from readers and reviewers alike. But Bouden is perhaps best-known for his lovable characters Max and Sven. Max and Sven are best friends in boyhood who maintain their friendship into adulthood despite Sven being straight and Max being gay. Through the eyes of Max and Sven, with equal doses of laugh-out-loud humor and wry insight, Bouden highlights and dispels many misperceptions about gay and straight culture. Created in 1990 as part of an advertising campaign for a gay youth club, Max and Sven quickly rose to stardom with leading roles in their own comic. 2004 will mark their official entrée into North America, with the publication of Max and Sven by Green Candy Press. Max and Sven takes readers back to the beginning to the fateful first meeting at which the seeds of a friendship that would last a lifetime were sown.
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Tom Bouden
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Education
He started making comics with his friends when he was 9 years old, and later studied animation in Ghent.
Career
He began to focus on gay themes when a gay youth group asked him to draw a promotional poster for them. He started working for several gay magazines, and in 1993 these comics were collected as the book Flikkerzicht. This was followed by Max en Sven, a semi-autobiographical story about a boy who falls in love with his best friend.
1990: a gay youth club asks Tom Bouden to make some illustrations for a new campaign.
Soon, the figures on the poster () have leading parts in their own comic. Based on these stories, Tom Bouden is asked to draw a comic on a regular basis for the monthly Belgian gay-magazine ZiZo.
A year later, the Dutch magazine Expreszo follows. 1994: The gags from these magazines are collected in his first album, Flikkerzicht.
1997: Publication in the Dutch Gay-Krant, scripts for Disney-Comics and various texts for television and theatre.
1998: Tom Bouden begins to work as assistant for Hec Leemans, author of the famous Flemish newspapercomic Football Club De Kampioenen. 2000: Publication in the German magazine "Queer" and "Freshmen", the Dutch Gay & Night and the English deoxyribonucleic acid-magazine. The 12th album is published in German and English.
He"s also busy writing stories for The Smurfs.
2002: The first Kid City-book, based on the site www.kidcity.be is published in French and Dutch by Editions Dupuis. 2004: A second English publication:the book (Green Candy Press), and a French publication: Max et Sven (H&O).
2007: The German publisher Bruno Gmünder starts publishing books by Bouden in English. 2010: Bouden reboots De Lustige Kapoentjes.
Bouden"s comics have been translated into French, German, English, Spanish, and Italian.
He worked very briefly as a writer for The Smurfs and Donald Duck. Zizo (Belgium) Expreszo (Netherlands) Gay Krant Gay & Night.
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Max and Sven
( Belgian-born comic artist Tom Bouden’s work has been sy...)
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Queerville
(This book presents very libertine contents in a "Tim-&-St...)
- Max & Sven (Spanish Edition)
- Queerville by Tom Bouden (2015-10-30)
- Max and Sven by Tom Bouden (2004-06-20)
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Max and Sven
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Awards
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2006: Prix Saint-Michel for best Dutch comicbook with 'Het belang van Ernst' ( translated as 'The Importance of being Earnest' )
The Prix Saint-Michel is a series of comic awards presented by the city of Brussels, with a focus on Franco-Belgian comics.The Prix Saint-Michel is a series of comic awards presented by the city of Brussels, with a focus on Franco-Belgian comics.
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2006: Prix Saint-Michel for best Dutch comicbook with 'Het belang van Ernst' ( translated as 'The Importance of being Earnest' )
The Prix Saint-Michel is a series of comic awards presented by the city of Brussels, with a focus on Franco-Belgian comics.The Prix Saint-Michel is a series of comic awards presented by the city of Brussels, with a focus on Franco-Belgian comics.