LERICHE-GIONET Samantha
This Montréal based cartoonist uses the pseudonym “BOUM”.
She is a graduate of Concordia University’s Film Animation program.
In the following years she produced animated and stop motion films: Fou tu (2005); Lucien Superstar (2007); Le paquet/The Parcel (2008); Le grand saut/The Great Jump (2009); Snowflakes & Carrots (2010).
After ten years in animation she turned to cartooning and in February 2011 she began an ongoing web autobiographical graphic journal called “Boumeries”. In the same year a printed collection Boumeries volume 1 was awarded Best Francophone Comic at Expozine Awards. She has also produced Culottes Courtes (2011); La petite revolution which was printed in 2012 by Front froid and in 2017 published in English as A Small Revolution by Soaring Penguin Press.
WORK:
CARTOONIST:
BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:
Content strip & Cover book front:
Boumeries, v. 8. Samantha Leiche-Gionet, 2018.
SOURCE:
Book graphic:
Boumeries, v. 8. Samantha Leiche-Gionet, 2018: 115, 120.
Web:
“Big Boum Theory: Montreal Artist SLG.” www.forgetthebox.net>arts. Accessed 28 May 2018.
“Boum.” www.boumfolio.com. Accessed 28 May 2018.
GALLERY:
Boumeries, v. 8. Samantha Leiche-Gionet, 2018: Front cover.
Boumeries, v. 8. Samantha Leiche-Gionet, 2018: From back cover.