Boucq published cartoons in magazines like Le Point or L'Expansion at an early age. Soon, he also created comic albums, becoming famous with Les pionniers de l'aventure humaine. Many more have been published in the meantime, including La femme du magicien (1986) and the series Face de Lune, which was created in cooperation with the artist Alexandro Jodorowsky. 1994 saw the publication of Les dents du recoin, the first album of a series of surreal comics that feature Jérôme Moucherot, a door-to-door insurance salesman with a fountain pen through his nose, who is dressed in a leopard fur suit; his bizarre adventures take place in a world where Smurfs are jungle-dwelling headhunters and sharks swim around in the blue wallpapers of bourgeouis living rooms.

This book is an english tranlation of Les pionniers de l'aventure humaine.

Stories include:

• Adventures in Malayasia
• Law of the Great North
• Table of Old Brittany
• Pariahs of nature
• Gross Growth Games
• Lonliness of the Deep
• Bengal Tiger
• Art for Art's Sake
• Leonaaardo
• Primitives are Savage
• Intimacy

Book is extra large 8 3/4" x 11 3/4" with cardboard cover.