Samantha Leriche-Gionet

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Samantha Leriche-Gionet
Boum, illustratrice et bedeiste.jpg
Boum in 2022
Born (1985-03-08) March 8, 1985 (age 39)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pen nameBoum
Occupation
LanguageFrench
Alma mater
Genre comic strip
Notable worksBoumeries
Notable awards
  • 2011, Expozine prize
  • 2020, Bédélys Independent Francophone prize
Website
boumfolio.com

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  [ fr ]. [2]

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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  [ fr ], 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

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

Selected works

Filmography

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Livres: questions en rafale à la bédéiste Samantha Leriche-Gionet". Journal Métro (in French). 2 May 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  3. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 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).
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  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.
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