Samantha Leriche-Gionet

Samantha Leriche-Gionet (born March 8, 1985), also known by the pseudonym Boum, is a French Canadian animator, illustrator, and comic strip author, as well as a filmmaker. She has always lived in the east end of the city of Montreal, Quebec.[1] She has expressed her appreciation of the work of Marjane Satrapi, Ross Campbell, Tome and Janry, Zviane, Iris, and Francis Desharnais.[2]

Samantha Leriche-Gionet
Boum in 2022
Boum in 2022
Born (1985-03-08) March 8, 1985
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pen nameBoum
Occupation
LanguageFrench
Alma mater
Genrecomic strip
Notable worksBoumeries
Notable awards
  • 2011, Expozine prize
  • 2020, Bédélys Independent Francophone prize
Website
boumfolio.com

Biography

Samantha Leriche-Gionet was born on March 8, 1985, in Montreal, Quebec.[3] Leriche-Gionet studied animation, first at the Cégep du Vieux Montréal. In 2010, she graduated from Concordia University's Film Animation program,[2][4] and in the following year, with David Barlow-Krelina, she competed at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in the graduation film category.[5]

From 2011, after participating in Hourly Comic Day, she developed a webcomic called Boumeries, published three times a week.[6][7] This series presents "short autobiographical anecdotes of four panels".[2] The volumes are self-published from 2011,[6] and, in parallel, the author is a freelancer in animation and illustration.[2] In 2011, the first volume was awarded the Expozine prize for alternative publishing in the "Francophone comic strip" category.[8] In 2012, she was one of the finalists for the Prix Bédélys, in the category "Bédélys Independent Francophone".[9] The ninth volume was nominated for the 2020 Doug Wright Award.[10]

La Petite Révolution was published by Front Froid in 2012; the story centered on a character named Florence, an orphan, who goes through a revolution on the rhythms of Boris Vian.[11] The book was short-listed for the Ignatz Awards in the Outstanding online comics category in 201610.[12] In 2019, La Pastèque published Nausées matinales et autres petits bonheurs, in which the artist humorously evokes pregnancy.[13] In 2020, Leriche-Gionet was the winner of the Bédélys Independent Francophone prize for volume 10 of Boumeries.[14] In 2022, her graphic novel La méduse about the progressive but inevitable vision loss of a young woman is published.[15]

Personal life

Leriche-Gionet is married and has two daughters. Afflicted with eye diseases for over a decade, she lost the use of her right eye since 2021.[3]

Awards and honours
  • 2011, Expozine prize for alternative publishing in the “Francophone comic strip” category for Boumeries[8]
  • 2020, Bédélys Independent Francophone prize for volume 10 of Boumeries

Selected works
  • Boumeries (2011–)
  • Culottes Courtes (2011)
  • La petite revolution (2012); A Small Revolution (2017, English)
  • Capitaine aime-ton-mou contre les ténèbres du suif (drawing and colors), script by Guylaine Guay, Éditions de la Bagnole, coll. "La bagnole tout-terrain", 2018 ISBN 978-2-89714-258-2
  • Nausées matinales et autres petits bonheurs, La Pastèque, 2019 ISBN 978-2-89777-058-7
  • La méduse, Pow Pow, Montréal, 2022, 228 p. ISBN 978-2-925114-17-8

Filmography
  • Fou tu (2005)
  • Lucien Superstar (2007)
  • Le paquet/The Parcel (2008)
  • Le grand saut/The Great Jump (2009)
  • Snowflakes & Carrots (2010)

References
  1. Bergeron, Delphine (4 September 2019), "Une nouvelle publication pour Boum à l'automne", Flambeau (Montréal) (in French)
  2. "Livres: questions en rafale à la bédéiste Samantha Leriche-Gionet". Journal Métro (in French). 2 May 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  3. "Boum (Samantha Leriche-Gionet)". www.boumfolio.com (in French). Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  4. "LERICHE-GIONET S." Canadian Animation, Cartooning and Illustration. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  5. Ostojic, Lydia (16 April 2011). "Festival du film d'animation d'Annecy: les États-Unis à l'honneur". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  6. "Le Journal de Montreal. BOUMERIE VOL. 8 BOUM" (in French). 7 July 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2023 – via PressReader.
  7. Sénamaud, Marie-Loïc (15 May 2014). "10 questions à Boum auteure de Bande dessinée". ICI ARTV (in French). Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  8. Leduc, Jean-Dominic (4 April 2012). "La bande dessinée récompense ses meilleurs auteurs". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  9. Bergeras, Yves (31 March 2012), "Deux bédéistes natifs d'Aylmer : Pinkerton en piste aux prix Bédélys", Le Devoir (in French)
  10. MacDonald, Heidi (12 May 2020). "Here are your 2020 Doug Wright Awards Winners". The Beat. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  11. Myriam Roy, (17 April 2013) "La nouvelle bouquinerie", La Nouvelle (Sherbrooke).
  12. Collins, Elle (18 August 2016). "Small Press Expo Announces 2016 Ignatz Award Nominees". ComicsAlliance. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  13. Larochelle, Samuel (8 December 2019). "Des BD pour tous". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  14. "22nd Bédélys Awards For works published in 2020". www.fbdm-mcaf.ca. Montreal Comic Arts Festival. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  15. Houdassine, Ismaël (2022-12-31). "«La méduse», Boom". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-16.

Bibliography
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