About
The comics
Here be Voodoo is the story of Sunday, a ten-year old girl and her doll, Mojo.
But Here be Voodoo isn’t a story about their fun and magical adventures through a candy colored world (Well, with the word Voodoo in the title, I kind of hope you were warned).
Here be Voodoo is about how far you can go to take revenge.
About the necessary evil and the far less necessary.
About the choices who are not always the right one, and sometimes not having a choice at all.
About making mistakes, and seeking redemption, or choosing not to.
And in a less cryptic way, note that the story will mention explicitly:
-Disturbingly cute voodoo dolls wielding butcher knives.
-Zombis (dog, bird, humans, bugs, more or less whole.)
-Grave robbing.
-Human remains tinkering.
-Black magic.
-Naked ladies and gentlemens.
-Werewolves. (Who are also the naked ladies and gentlemens).
-Profanity and swearing
-Act of questionable morality from both the good guys, the bad guys, and the dolls who wouldn’t know what morality is if it bite them in their straw-filled head.
-Black humor, dark enough to depress an undertaker.
Please, do not suggest this story to children, innocents and/or faint of heart.
Thank you.
The author
Valériane Duvivier decided at ten to be either a ballerina, a clown or a comics artist. More than twenty years later, she settled for the comics artistry career.
Her influences are mainly anime and manga (Naoki Urusawa, Katsuhiro Otomo, Studio Ghilbi), french-belgian comics (too much to cite), Tim Burton (as if it didn’t show), Brian Froud, Paul Kidby, etc etc.
After a few years in art schools (Ecole Emile Cohl in Lyon and Supinfocom in Valenciennes) she start working in the video games for children industry, with character design, illustrations and pink.
Lots and lots of pink.
As a meant to cope, she start doodling voodoo dolls with big butcher knife and the little darling horrors soon took over her sketchbook and brain space.
Valériane want to mention that however dark and grim is the comics, she is not depressive, suicidal or insane. She just tend to talk about herself in third person when writing her bio on the website.
