Samantha Leriche-Gionet

Samantha Leriche-Gionet studied at Cégep du Vieux Montréal and Concordia University. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is comic, illustration and animation. Places of work recorded in the authority are Montreal. Residence is recorded at Quebec.

• Name — Samantha Leriche-Gionet • Pen Name — Boum • Born — 8 March 1985 • Birthplace — Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Occupation — * animator • illustrator • author • filmmaker • Language — French • Education — * Cégep du Vieux Montréal • Concordia University • Genre — comic strip • Notable Works — Boumeries • Awards — * 2011, Expozine prize • 2020, Bédélys Independent Francophone prize • Website — boumfolio.com/

Samantha Leriche-Gionet was born on March 8, 1985, in Montreal, Quebec. Leriche-Gionet studied animation, first at the Cégep du Vieux Montréal. In 2010, she graduated from Concordia University's Film Animation program, and in the following year, with David Barlow-Krelina, she competed at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in the graduation film category. From 2011, after participating in Hourly Comic Day, she developed a webcomic called Boumeries, published three times a week. 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. In 2012, she was one of the finalists for the Prix Bédélys, in the category "Bédélys Independent Francophone". The ninth volume was nominated for the 2020 Doug Wright Award. 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. The book was short-listed for the Ignatz Awards in the Outstanding online comics category in 2016. In 2019, La Pastèque published Nausées matinales et autres petits bonheurs, in which the artist humorously evokes pregnancy. In 2020, Leriche-Gionet was the winner of the Bédélys Independent Francophone prize for volume 10 of Boumeries. In 2022, her graphic novel La méduse about the progressive but inevitable vision loss of a young woman is published. In 2024, The Jellyfish, La méduses translation, is published.

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.

• 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 • 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

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

She also worked under the name Boum. The authorities additionally record the heading Boum. Her recorded language was French.

Samantha Leriche-Gionet is recorded as animator, comics artist, illustrator, writer and comics creator.