Vincent Rioux

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 . 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,

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). The album received a favorable reception from the media.

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: Vents d'Ouest, 2010 L'été 63, in two volumes 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), Les Impatients. 1792 À main levée, 2017 (collective historical work), 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 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)