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. Revoy is married to illustrator

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Early life

Revoy was born in

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, France and raised in

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, following which his family moved to

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. As a sixteen-year-old, he was contacted by Japanese manga publisher

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to create comics but opted to attend college instead. He graduated from the

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with a

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