Tom Bouden started drawing at an early age. He began in the early 80s, by winning a comics contest for children at the BRT. During his school years, he cooperates on several schoolpapers. He also wins a comics contest of the weekly De Volksmacht. Bouden studied animation in Gent from 1989. He develops the comics character 'Boudewijn de Grom', of which some pages are published in albums later on. While drawings for an advertisement campaign, Bouden created the characters 'Max en Sven'. These characters are featured in the Belgian monthly ZiZo and the Dutch magazine Expreszo since the early 1990s. The first album of this comic appeared in 1994.
From 1997, he drawns the series 'Max en Karel' in the Gay Krant. The same year, Bouden starts writing stories for the Dutch Disney production. He also writes for theatre plays and television shows. In 1998, he becomes an assistant on the newspaper comic 'FC De Kampioenen'. From 2000, his work is features in the German magazines Queer and Freshmen, as well as the British DNA Magazine and the Dutch Gay & Night. His gay comics are collected in the album series 'Flikkerzicht'. Bouden also starts writing for 'Les Schtroumpfs'. In 2002, Bouden created a comic about songfestival contestant Sergio, and he wrote and drew the first 'Kid City' album, based on the website www.kidcity.be. In 2003 his comic 'De Lichtrode Ridder' appeared, created in cooperation with Kim Duchateau.
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