Voro (author)

VoRo
VoRo at the Festival of Planks and Cows [fr] in Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France, in April 2009
VoRo at the Festival of Planks and Cows [fr] in Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France, in April 2009
BornVincent Rioux
(1975-06-09) June 9, 1975 (age 49)
Le Bic, Quebec, Canada
OccupationScreenwriter, comic book artist, comic book author, colorist
LanguageFrench
NationalityCanadian
EducationCégep de Rivière-du-Loup
Years active2001–present

VoRo (born Vincent Rioux on June 9, 1975) is a Canadian comic book author.

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 Brussels where he spent a few months at the Institut Saint-Luc 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 Zine Zag  [fr],[1] entitled La Mare au diable published by Éditions Mille-Îles, which won the Bédélys Québec Prize [fr], the Réal-Fillion Prize [fr] from the Québec BD Festival [fr] and the BD Québec 2001 Grand Prize [fr].[2] The album was subsequently distributed in Europe by Les 400 coups France.

Then, VoRo worked on the project Tard dans la nuit published by Vents d'Ouest [fr] (3 volumes),[3] which he produced in collaboration with Djian [fr], 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 2 volumes with Marc Bourgne [fr] 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,[4] which traces the parliamentary history of Lower Canada.[5]

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).[6] The album received a favorable reception from the media.[7][8][9]

Publications

Albums

  • La Mare au Diable (drawing and screenplay based on the novel of the same name by George Sand), Les 400 Coups, 2001.[10]
  • Tard dans la nuit, in three volumes:[3] 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),[11] Vents d'Ouest, 2010
  • L'été 63, in two volumes[12] 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),[13] Les Impatients.
  • 1792 À main levée, 2017 (collective historical work),[4][14] 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, ...), Quebec Publications [fr].
  • L'Espion de trop, 2019 [7][8][9] as designer (screenplay by Frédéric Antoine, colors by Kamiken), Glénat Quebec.

Distinctions

See also

References

  1. ^ Roy, Michel (November 13, 1999). "Le Zine Zag fête son premier anniversaire au Salon du livre" [Zine Zag celebrates its first anniversary at the Book Fair]. L'Éclaireur progrès/Beauce nouvelle (in French). 92 (11). Saint-Georges, Quebec, Canada: 22.
  2. ^ a b c d Découvrez VoRo [Discover VoRo], Montreal Comic Arts Festival [fr] (accessed on August 3, 2019)
  3. ^ a b Meney, Florence [in French] (November 7, 2006). "Tard dans la nuit, Tares dans la nuit!" [Late at night, Tares in the night!]. Ici Radio-Canada Télé (in French). Retrieved September 26, 2024.
  4. ^ a b 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, 2016
  5. ^ Jean-Dominic Leduc, L’Histoire à son meilleur [History at its finest], Le Journal de Montréal, May 6, 2017
  6. ^ Jean-Dominic Leduc, Mission impossible [Mission impossible], Le Journal de Montréal, March 24, 2019
  7. ^ a b J.Milette, L'Espion de trop [One spy too many], BD Gest' [fr], June 6, 2019
  8. ^ a b Jean Siag, L'espion de trop: un espion nazi en Gaspésie [One spy too many: a Nazi spy in Gaspésie], La Presse, April 25, 2019
  9. ^ a b Brigitte 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
  10. ^ Maltret, Olivier (October 2001). "Mare nostrum" [Mare nostrum]. BoDoï (45): 13..
  11. ^ Perroud, A. (July 14, 2010). "Tard dans la nuit Intégrale" [Late at Night Complete]. BD Gest' (in French). Retrieved September 27, 2024.
  12. ^ Voici « L'Été 63 » [Here is "L'Été 63"], Ici Radio-Canada Télé, September 10, 2009
  13. ^ Yves Bergeras, L'art s'allie à la santé mentale [Art and mental health are linked], Le Droit, November 8, 2014
  14. ^ Jean 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

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