Antoine Revoy is a French illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist, raised in Japan and based in the U.S. East Coast. Born in 1977 on Rue Gustave Doré in Paris, Antoine has lived, studied and worked in 7 countries on 3 continents and speaks 6 languages. He is the writer and illustrator of the graphic novel ANIMUS.

Having earned a BFA in Animation at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999, Antoine worked for 9 years as a designer and art director in Dublin, Ireland and Paris, France, founding a design agency at the age of 26 and leading the design of BNP Paribas' group company intranet, used daily by 201,700 employees in 84 countries. During this time, Antoine designed hundreds of logos, websites, online/desktop applications and print materials, receiving a Gold Award from Graphis and distinction from the Pepin Press in the Netherlands.

Upon returning to the United States in 2009, Antoine started a career as a full-time freelance illustrator, creating editorial and product illustrations as well as character designs and concept art for clients worldwide, including The New York Times, Samsonite and various publications of Der Spiegel. Within the first 2 years of this commitment, Antoine's illustration work won recognition from the industry's preeminent juries and publications, notably the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Freistil, 3x3 Magazine and Spectrum.

On the side of his activity as an artist, Antoine is also an Assistant Professor-in-Residency in RISD's Illustration Department, where he has twice been nominated for the school's Excellence in Teaching award (2015, 2017), and a thesis mentor for the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is also a writer for various publications on design and the creative industry. He lives and works in Providence, RI, with his wife, illustrator Kelly Murphy.


Clients include:
Abbott Laboratories, BNP Paribas, Bloomsbury Publishing, Boyds Mills Press, Der Spiegel, First Second Books, Harvard University Press, Hasbro, Henry Holt and Co., Macmillan, The New York Times, PLANADVISER, Rhode Island School of Design, Samsonite, Scholastic, SquareFish, TEDMED, You?

Exhibitions:
MoCCA Arts Festival, New York Comic Con, Museum of American Illustration, MoCCA Gallery at the Society of Illustrators, Gallery Nucleus, iam8bit Gallery, AS220, RISD Museum of Art, Cahoon Museum of American Art, University of Rhode Island, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Awards and Recognition:
American Illustration, American Library Association, Bank Street College of Education, DPI Magazine, Freistil, Graphis, PRINT Magazine, The Society of Illustrators NY, SILA, Spectrum Fantastic Art, 3x3 Magazine