Voro (author)

VoRo (born Vincent Rioux on June 9, 1975) is a Canadian comic book creator (both artist and writer).

Biography VoRo earned a DCE in graphic design at the Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec. Several fanzines published him while he worked in a graphic-design workshop to finance a trip to Europe.

He left for Belgium where he spent a few months at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels to learn the basics of the cartoonist profession. However, VoRo returned to Quebec after spending a little over a year in Belgium.

He then produced an album, pre-published in the Quebec magazine , entitled La Mare au diable published by Éditions Mille-Îles, which won the , the from the and the . The album was subsequently distributed in Europe by Les 400 coups France.

Then, VoRo worked on the project Tard dans la nuit published by (three volumes), which he produced in collaboration with , a French screenwriter and Jocelyne Charrance on color. The plot of the story is built around the controversy surrounding the Duplessis Orphans.

VoRo also produced L'été 63 in two volumes with on the screenplay. The first volume was released in June 2009 in Europe by Vents d'Ouest, and the second in 2012.

In 2017, VoRo was the lead illustrator on the collective historical work 1792 - À main levée, which traces the parliamentary history of Lower Canada.Jean-Dominic Leduc, L’Histoire à son meilleur [History at its finest], Le Journal de Montréal, May 6, 2017

In 2019, he produced the drawings for the album L'Espion de trop, which was released by Glénat Quebec, with the help of Frédéric Antoine (screenwriter) and Kamiken (colorist).Jean-Dominic Leduc, Mission impossible [Mission impossible], Le Journal de Montréal, March 24, 2019 The album received a favorable reception from the media.J.Milette, L'Espion de trop [One spy too many], , June 6, 2019Jean Siag, L'espion de trop: un espion nazi en Gaspésie [One spy too many: a Nazi spy in Gaspésie], La Presse, April 25, 2019Brigitte Dubé, Une BD, un espion allemand maladroit à New Carlisle et un auteur du Bic [A comic strip, a clumsy German spy in New Carlisle and an author from Bic], Ici Radio-Canada, April 10, 2019

Publications Albums La Mare au Diable (drawing and screenplay based on the novel of the same name by George Sand), Les 400 Coups, 2001.. Tard dans la nuit, in three volumes: La révolte (2004), Ménage de printemps (2005), Les orphelins (2007) as illustrator and co-writer (screenplay by Djian, colors by Jocelyne Charrance), Vents d'Ouest Tard dans la nuit (complete), Vents d'Ouest, 2010 L'été 63, in two volumesVoici « L'Été 63 » [Here is "L'Été 63"], Ici Radio-Canada Télé, September 10, 2009 as illustrator and colourist, script by Marc Bourgne, Vents d'Ouest, 2009 and 2012. Un moment d'impatience !, 2014 (collective work for the benefit of an organization),Yves Bergeras, L'art s'allie à la santé mentale [Art and mental health are linked], Le Droit, November 8, 2014 Les Impatients. 1792 À main levée, 2017 (collective historical work),Julie Tremblay, Xavier Lacroix, Les débuts de l'Assemblée nationale sous la plume de VoRo [The beginnings of the National Assembly from the pen of VoRo], Ici Radio-Canada, August 22, 2016Jean Siag, 1792 - À main levée: premiers pas de la bédé... et de la vie parlementaire [1792 - A show of hands: first steps in comics... and parliamentary life], La Presse, May 8, 2017 as principal illustrator (drawings and colours by Vincent Giard, drawings and screenplay by Réal Godbout, drawings by VAN, historical text by Christian Blais and Magali Paquin, ...), . L'Espion de trop, 2019 as designer (screenplay by Frédéric Antoine, colors by Kamiken), Glénat Quebec.

Distinctions (2001),Découvrez VoRo [Discover VoRo], (accessed on August 3, 2019) awarded by the non-profit organization Promo 9e Art (Montreal); (2001), awarded to the ; (2001), provided by the defunct information and news site on Quebec comics BD Québec. (2004)

Voro (author)

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