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]

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 201610.^[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]

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]

• 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

• 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 [fr], 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

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