Boule et Bill (known in English as Billy & Buddy) is a popular comic, created in 1959 by Belgian writer-artist Jean Roba in collaboration with Maurice Rosy.

The stories center on a typical family: a man and his wife, their young son Boule and Bill the cocker spaniel.

The debut was made in a so-called mini-récit (mini-story), a story in 32 very small pages, printed on the inner spread of the magazine.

Roba had until then mainly made illustrations for the magazine and had helped some other authors (including André Franquin), and now started with his own series.

Most of the gags happen in or around the house, but also include an almost yearly holiday setting with the family travelling away from home, usually at the beach.

[3] The series is translated in about 15 other languages, in which the characters names also vary: Boule et Bill is among the best-selling French-language comics, with 300,000 copies for the new album by Verron in 2009.

The movie received bad reviews,[5] but was commercially successful enough to warrant a sequel "Boule et Bill 2", released in 2017.