#jo rioux

[thecollectibles]

Art by Jo Rioux

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Jo Rioux

Illustrator

[godzilla-reads]

🌊 The Daughters of Ys by M.T. Anderson and Jo Rioux

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Based on the old Britton tale, there is a wonderful and luscious kingdom called Ys where a magical queen and her king rule, but when the queen dies and leaves the king in mourning with two daughters, the dark secrets start to emerge.

I had never heard of this folktale and I feel like after reading the story, the choice of a graphic novel to depict it was fabulous. This story dives into the dark reality of what it takes to keep an empire and how we can’t always have a happy choice. The two sisters showed the duality of this thought and I really wanted to hate Dahut, the younger sister, but I felt like she was created by her father into this image that she was made to fill.

Jo Rioux’s art style really made this tale come to life and it was reminiscent of movies by Cartoon Saloon, like The Secret of Kells or Song of the Sea.

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[twkirky]

Fanart of M.T. Anderson and Jo Rioux’s The Daughters of Ys

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Cat's Cradle: The Mole King's Lair is entertaining but feels like a chapter of a bigger story

Cat's Cradle: The Mole King's Lair is entertaining but feels like a chapter of a bigger story #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Suri loves monsters―studying their lore, telling stories about them (for a fee), and―she hopes―one day taming them. Unfortunately, no one takes an orphan street-urchin who travels with a merchant camp very seriously. But Suri’s self-confidence, cleverness, and ambition serve her well when a mysterious new wagon joins her camp―holding something very big, very loud, and very monstrous. Story: Jo…

[laurapetrie]

Unlike Jo, Amy embraces her budding womanhood, which she feels empowers rather than diminishes her. At sixteen, she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman” and has “learned to use the gift of fascination with which she was endowed.” Although not a natural beauty like Meg, the blonde, blue-eyed Amy easily succeeds at making herself into a fashionable work of art, gaining first the attention of Laurie's college friends, then Fred Vaughn, and finally Laurie himself. It is not only with men that she succeeds, however. She wins over her fellow art school students, the mean girls at the fair, and then her aunts, one of whom takes her to Europe. Once abroad, Amy blossoms further. “Always mature for her age,” she now becomes “more of a woman of the world.” She enjoys her power over men (including Laurie) and tears around Nice in her own carriage, taking the reins herself and yelling out to Laurie in the street, her “free manners” scandalizing a French mother who hurries her young daughter in the opposite direction. Amy was the daring American girl abroad ten years before the publication of Henry James's Daisy Miller. In the end, of course, Amy wins Laurie and decides that she won't be an artist after all (because she possesses talent but not genius, something Laurie also discovers about his music). Readers often forget that Amy wants to become a famous artist because she gives it up so easily. She will become instead, as the wealthy Laurie's wife, “an ornament to society.” To many readers, Amy has seemed to be the clear winner among the four March sisters. In her New York Times essay “Amy Had Golden Curls; Jo Had a Rat. Who Would You Rather Be?” film and book critic Caryn James wrote that favoring Amy over the other girls was a "no-brainer." Pretty Amy went to Europe, had adventures, and married the dashing boy next door, while Jo lived in a dumpy boardinghouse in New York and married a boring professor. - Anne Boyd Rioux, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters 

[gilsart]

where did you learn your current art style? any inspirations?

hi, i have different art styles! although it's basically just the same one being simplified and stylized to my personal liking. i usually draw like this:

(this is one of my ocs!)

i think it was inspired by various authors, it started to develop when i was around 17. i'd say the turning point was reading hikaru suruga & gun snark's "birth of levi" (from my snk fixation phase, the anime also did something to my style), waka hirako's "my broken mariko" (later on), and overall watching hirohiko araki's "jojo" (in 2020). the last one especially, i've been told it shows.

as you can tell i started out basing it on a style that was more manga aligned, which then shifted into something more "european" (for lack of a better word) when i started reading graphic novels. quick list of some stories that i think did something to my style:

flavia biondi, "le maldicenze" and "la generazione" although only available in italian as far as i know

giacomo bevilacqua, "il suono del mondo a memoria" (also only available in italian? but with this one i am not sure)

tillie walden, "are you listening?"

m. t. anderson & jo rioux, "the daughters of ys"

@/ankun_art (on ig !), "blue" (this is also in italian and i have no clue if ankun had it translated)

along with this i have other artists in mind i like on a storytelling level, such as flavia biondi (mentioned her already). as for coloring, i would really like to achieve giacomo bevilacqua's level (i have also already mentioned him), but i keep my expectations low. :')

i am also a wh0re for klimt and everything that's gold and full of frills. so there's that

[queerical]

books of 2023

A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

A Series of Unfortunate Events 5-13 by Lemony Snicket

Abbott: 1973

Alone in Space: A Collection by Tillie Walden

Aquaman: The Becoming

Aquamen (2022)

Arkham City: The Order of the World

Batgirl (2000)

Bylines In Blood

Cuckoos Three by Cassandra Jean, Mosskat

Crush & Lobo

The Daughters of Ys by M.T. Anderson, Jo Rioux

DC Pride: Tim Drake Special

Elektra (2014)

The Forest by Thomas Ott

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod, Jess Taylor

Gimmick! by Youzaburou Kanari

House of Slaughter, Volumes 1-2

The Illustrator by Steven Heller, Julius Wiedemann

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Jessica Jones (2016)

Jessica Jones: Blind Spot

Justice League: A League of One

The Liminal Zone by Junji Ito

Men I Trust by Tommi Parrish

Metro Survive by Yuki Fujisawa

Midnighter (2016)

Mister Miracle: The Great Escape by Varian Johnson, Daniel Isles

Moon Knight (2011)

More is More is More: Today's Maximalist Interiors by Carl Dellatore

Ms. Marvel (2014), Volumes 1-2

Natsume's Book of Friends, Volumes 12-28 by Yuki Midorikawa

Nimona by N.D. Stevenson

Nubia: Real One by L.L. MicKenney, Robyn Smith

Power Girl Returns

Pretty Deadly

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

Rogue Sun, Volume 2

Rough Terrain by Annbeth Albert

Run Away With Me, Girl by Battan

Runaways (2003-2008)

SFSX (Safe Sex)

Silver Diamond, Volumes 1-9 by Shiho Sugiura

Sins of the Black Flamingo

Soulless: The Manga by Gail Carringer

Spider-Man/Deadpool, Volumes 1-6

The Sprite and the Gardener by Rii Abrego, Joe Whitt

Still Life: Contemporary Paintings by Amber Creswell Bell

Storm (2014)

Street Unicorns: Extravagant Fashion Photography From NYC Streets and Beyond by Robbie Quinn

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (2011)

Until I Meet My Husband by Ryounosuke Nanasaki

Wakanda

Watercolor: Paintings of Contemporary Artists

What Did You Eat Yesterday? Volume 19 by Fumi Yoshinaga

Wheels Up by Annabeth Albert

The Well by Jake Wyett, Choo

The Wendy Project by Melissa Jane Osborne, Veronica Fish

The Wild Orphan by Robert Froman

Wonder Woman: Black & Gold

X-Men (2013)

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez, Julie Maroh

Young Avengers (2005-2012)

[stoneantler]

The best graphic novels I read in 2023 in no particular order:

Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed trans. Deena Mohamed Keeping Two by Jordan Crane Tomie by Junji Ito Panther by Brecht Evens trans. Laura Watkinson Stone Fruit by Lee Lai The Tenderness of Stones by Marion Fayolle trans. Geoffrey Brock Uzumaki by Junji Ito Letter to Survivors by Gébé trans. Edward Gauvin The Daughters of Ys by M.T. Anderson and Jo Rioux

[evergardenwall]

a redraw of an illustration by jo rioux on instagram for a draw this in your style ✨

[thecollectibles]

Mermay 2024 by Jo Rioux

[rosy-cozy-radio]

Silly Game Time: Grab the nearest book and open it to a random page. What's the first complete sentence on it?

I happen to be answering this question in a library. So! Who knows what I’ll find.

okay first book my eyes landed on is called “Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy” by Anne Boyd Rioux and I think it’s supposed to be an analysis of Little Women?

sentence time on page 162: “The same year, the annual What Kids Are Reading survey, based on 6.2 million students’ reading records, listed the forty most frequently read books by grade.”

well I guess that’s an informative sentence since I had no idea there was a What Kids Are Reading survey, but a bit too statistical and kinda boring. So I’ll try again.

page 90: “Critics were less sure of the film’s success.”

um I’m not sure that’s any better. Maybe I should just quit.

well, three time’s a charm, so once more:

page 196: “Even when her health appears to be stable, her moods are not, and Marmee seems to be worried that she is slipping into a depression.”

okay I’d say that’s the best.

toodaloo!

[godzilla-reads]

🌸 June Reading Wrap-Up 🌸

In June I read 12 books total, bringing my yearly total to 85 books! My top 3 are the starred titles in my list:

🛍️ The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko

🦋 The Moth Keeper by K. O’Neill

⭐️ On Being a Bear: Face to Face with Our Wild Sibling by Rémy Marion (trans. David Warriner)

🌊 The Daughters of Ys by M.T. Anderson and Jo Rioux

🤘 Spider-Punk: Battle of the Banned by Cody Ziglar, Justin Mason, and Jim Charalampidis

🧚‍♀️ The Nixie of the Mill-Pond and Other European Stories edited by Kel McDonald and Kate Ashwin

🐲 Dragon’s Blood by Jane Yolen

🏳️‍🌈 The DC Book of Pride: A Celebration of DC’s LGBTQIA+ Characters by Jadzia Axelrod

⭐️ The Fire Within by Chris d’Lacey

⭐️ Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae edited by Elizabeth Dearnley

👀 In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu

🐺 Only the End of the World Again by Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, Troy Nixey, and Matt Hollingsworth

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Stuff I Read/Watching in February...

Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge

Monstress: Volume 8 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Cat’s Cradle: The Mole King’s Lair by Jo Rioux

Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCoola and Emily Carroll

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Chris Riddell

Kristy’s Mystery Admirer by Anne M. Martin

Poor Mallory! by Anne M. Martin

The Harvest by Richie Tankersley Cusick

Utterly Dark and the Face of the Wild by Philip Reeve

The Lost Kingdom of Lantia by Maggie Hamilton

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

Mirrormask (2005)

Song of the Sea (2014)

When Marnie Was There (2014)

The Little Prince (2015)

Cocaine Bear (2023)

A Haunting in Venice (2023)

Nancy Drew: Season 3 (2021 – 2022)

Evil: Season 3 (2022)

The Great: Season 3 (2023)

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[dresyreads]

The Grimoire of Grave Fates is a Buddy read I'm currently doing with a friend, so technically I am only halfway through with it as I am waiting to read the next portion after my friend finishes.

These are just the physical book's I've read this week, I do also read Fanfiction (which is shared here after I finish the fic), And I have read a couple ebooks this week as well. See below for a list!

Kiraide Isasete by Hijiki Volumes 1-5

The Alpha's Bride by Kaoru Iwamoto & Yukimura Kanae

The Daughters of Ys by M.T. Anderson & Jo Rioux

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Washed Up [With A Kraken] by L.E. Eldridge