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
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
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 Guylaine Guay [fr], Éditions de la Bagnole, coll. "La bagnole tout-terrain", 2018 ISBN978-2-89714-258-2
