Samantha Leriche-Gionet Explained
Samantha Leriche-Gionet |
Pseudonym: | Boum |
Birth Date: | March 8, 1985 |
Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Language: | French |
Genre: | comic strip |
Notableworks: | Boumeries |
Awards: | - 2011, Expozine prize
- 2020, Bédélys Independent Francophone prize
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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 .[2]
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,[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". The volumes are self-published from 2011, and, in parallel, the author is a freelancer in animation and illustration. 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, 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.
Awards and honours
- 2011, Expozine prize for alternative publishing in the “Francophone comic strip” category for Boumeries
- 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, Éditions de la Bagnole, coll. "La bagnole tout-terrain", 2018
- Nausées matinales et autres petits bonheurs, La Pastèque, 2019
- La méduse, Pow Pow, Montréal, 2022, 228 p.
- The Jellyfish [translation of La Méduse], Pow Pow, Montréal, 2024, 228 p. ISBN 978-2-925114-30-7
Filmography
- Fou tu (2005)
- Lucien Superstar (2007)
- Le paquet/The Parcel (2008)
- Le grand saut/The Great Jump (2009)
- Snowflakes & Carrots (2010)
References
Bibliography
External links
Notes and References
- Bergeron, Delphine (4 September 2019), "Une nouvelle publication pour Boum à l'automne", Flambeau (Montréal)
- News: . Livres: questions en rafale à la bédéiste Samantha Leriche-Gionet . 8 March 2023 . Journal Métro . 2 May 2012 . fr-FR.
- Web site: Boum (Samantha Leriche-Gionet) . www.boumfolio.com . 9 March 2023 . fr.
- Web site: LERICHE-GIONET S. . Canadian Animation, Cartooning and Illustration . 9 March 2023.
- News: Ostojic . Lydia . Festival du film d'animation d'Annecy: les États-Unis à l'honneur . 8 March 2023 . La Presse . 16 April 2011 . fr-CA.
- Web site: Le Journal de Montreal. BOUMERIE VOL. 8 BOUM . PressReader . 8 March 2023 . fr . 7 July 2018.
- News: Sénamaud . Marie-Loïc . 10 questions à Boum auteure de Bande dessinée . 8 March 2023 . ICI ARTV . 15 May 2014 . fr.
- News: Leduc . Jean-Dominic . La bande dessinée récompense ses meilleurs auteurs . 8 March 2023 . Le Journal de Montréal . 4 April 2012 . fr.
- Bergeras, Yves (31 March 2012), "Deux bédéistes natifs d'Aylmer : Pinkerton en piste aux prix Bédélys", Le Devoir
- News: MacDonald . Heidi . Here are your 2020 Doug Wright Awards Winners . 8 March 2023 . The Beat . 12 May 2020.
- Myriam Roy, (17 April 2013) "La nouvelle bouquinerie", La Nouvelle (Sherbrooke).
- Web site: Collins . Elle . Small Press Expo Announces 2016 Ignatz Award Nominees . ComicsAlliance . 9 March 2023 . en . 18 August 2016.
- News: Larochelle . Samuel . Des BD pour tous . 9 March 2023 . La Presse . 8 December 2019 . fr-CA.
- Web site: 22nd Bédélys Awards For works published in 2020 . www.fbdm-mcaf.ca . Montreal Comic Arts Festival . 9 March 2023.
- Web site: Houdassine . Ismaël . 2022-12-31 . «La méduse», Boom . 2023-04-16 . Le Devoir . fr.
- News: 24 March 2024 . The Jellyfish by Boum, translated by Helge Dascher . CBC Books.