Alain Voss
Alain Voss (29 April 1946 – 13 May 2011), also known as Al Voss, was a French-Brazilian comics artist.
Alain Voss
- Born
- 29 April 1946
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 13 May 2011
- Place of death
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Occupation
- Comics artist
- Nationality
- Brazil · France
- Fields
- erotic comic
- Languages
- French
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Alain Voss. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q2829421 · wikipedia · Alain Voss
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
The documentary record
Statements marked “Documentary record” are set in the article beside the passage they confirm. Each is read from the authority records of the institutions named here; select “Prove” to see the record it was read from, where in that record, and when.
Institutions cited
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Complete reading chain (JSON)In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Born — 29 April 1946 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 13 May 2011 • Place of death — Lisbon, Portugal • Other Names — Al Voss • Occupation — Comics artist
Documentary record
Alain Voss, born in 1946, is documented in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Biography
Biography
Born in France, the son of a German father and a French mother, he spent his early life in Brazil, and debuted in comics magazines in that country and executing LP covers in the 1960s. He moved to France in 1972. From 1975 he worked for the experimental Metal Hurlant magazine with series including that of the punk rocker Heilman where Voss incorporates swastikas and other Nazi fanfare. (1978), Tobiaze and parodies of famous comics characters such as Popeye, Asterix and Superman. He returned to Brazil in 1981, and during the rest of his life collaborated with Brazilian publishers such as Editora Ondas and Press-Maciota. In 1982 he won the European Album of the Year Award for Adrénaline. In 2009 he suffered a first stroke: after recovering, he launched the series Anarcity, influenced by Philip K. Dick's works, and the strip Zensetos. Voss spent the last part of his life in Lisbon, Portugal, where he died of a stroke in May 2011. He was also known for designing album covers for the Brazilian rock band Os Mutantes.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1946
Alain Voss was born in 1946 at Paris.
2011
Alain Voss died in 2011 at Lisbon.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Paris.
Birth place
Lisbon.
Death place
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Alain Voss”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2829421: Alain Voss
General reference · Wikidata
Literature
Scholarly footprint
A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Alain Voss, revision 1294582906 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Born at
1- ParisPlace
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Illustration
5,224 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Alain BailhacheIllustrator
- Alain GréeIllustrator
- Alain LacouchieIllustrator
- Alain LestiéIllustrator
- Alan AldridgeIllustrator
- Alan BirkinshawIllustrator
- Alan E. CoberIllustrator
- Alan LeeIllustrator
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Alain Voss?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.