Samantha Leriche-Gionet
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Samantha Leriche-Gionet | |
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 Boum in 2022 | |
| Born | March 8, 1985 |
| Pen name | Boum |
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| Language | French |
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| Genre | comic strip |
| Notable works | Boumeries |
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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 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 2016.[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] In 2024, The Jellyfish, La méduse's translation, is published.[16]
Personal life
Boum is married and has two daughters. Boum and her family live in Montreal. 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
- 2025, Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material for The Jellyfish
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
- The Jellyfish [translation of La Méduse], Pow Pow, Montréal, 2024, 228 p. ISBN 978-2-925114-30-7
