Pen name B. Nationality French | Name Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme Role Novelist | |
 | ||
Born January 10, 1982Vannes, France ( 1982-01-10 ) Occupation Illustrator, visual artist, photographer, writer Genre Science fictionRetrofuturismCyberpunkDark fantasy | ||
October 2015 Artist Talk with Bastien Lecouffe Deharme and Samuel Araya
Bastien Lecouffe Deharme (pseudonym: B.) is a French visual artist, illustrator, digital painter and novelist, whose work is mainly in the science-fiction, cyberpunk and dark fantasy genre. He currently lives in Portsmouth, Ohio, USA.
Contents
- October 2015 Artist Talk with Bastien Lecouffe Deharme and Samuel Araya
- The Three Impostors Bastien Lecouffe Deharme Marcela Bolivar Samuel Araya
- Cover Art
- Memories of Retrocity William Drums Diary
- References
Bastien Lecouffe Deharme was born in Vannes in 1982.
At the beginning of the 1980s, his family had moved from Paris to Auray in Brittany, where he would spend his childhood and teenage years. In 2000, B. passes a baccalauréat in literature and art, and joins the Université de Haute Bretagne in Rennes (Brittany), where he studies Art. In 2006, he passes his Master of Fine Arts with honors; it is also around that time that he begins to work as an illustrator, mainly creating book covers.
In 2007 he moves to Paris, where he works as Artistic Director for the art gallery Le Cabinet des Curieux. There he organizes the shows Eros and Thanatos, Venus Robotica and Phantasms, as a trilogy. He also works on “Chroniques des Ombres” (Shadows Chronicles), an online animated graphic novel written by Pierre Bordage, as an Artistic Director and Lead Artist.
Currently living in the United States, he continues working as a freelance artist. He creates book covers for author such as Philip K. Dick, Clive Barker, Chuck Palahniuk, H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Herbert and many more. He has worked for French publishers such as Gallimard (Folio-SF), Pocket, Fleuve Noir and Mnemos among others.
In April 2011, Bastien Lecouffe Deharme write and illustrates his first graphic-novel, Memories of Retrocity published by “Editions du Riez”. The novel also features some texts written by Alain Damasio and Gilles Osvald, and digital paintings created by Johann Bodin and Anders Lazaret. Memories of Retrocity is acclaimed by the French critiques and is nominated for notorious awards, such as “Le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire”.
Today Bastien Lecouffe Deharme works with international clients (Tor Books, Random House, HarperCollins, Applibot, ...). His work is represented by the agency Shannon Associates (NYC).
The Three Impostors: Bastien Lecouffe Deharme, Marcela Bolivar, Samuel Araya
Cover Art
Memories of Retrocity : William Drum's Diary
B.'s first graphic novel, Memories of Retrocity : Le Journal de William Drum, was released in Avril 2011, edited by les Editions du Riez. This 120-page book comes in the form of the diary of William Drum, a former Chicago policeman who has been exiled in a strange metropolis named Retrocity. That city has not appeared on any map since it was infected by the "Retro-processus Virus", in the fifties, leading the authorities to quarantine it. William Drum will attempt to unveil the Retro-processus's secret and to survive his stay in this bio-mechanical, morbid city. B. illustrated and wrote the text himself.
The book features some texts by Gilles Osvald, and its "afterword, as a final burst [which] provides an insight into Retrocity's future", was written by Alain Damasio. The book is also accompanied by a CD containing an original soundtrack of twenty tunes that create an Industrial Music atmosphere reminiscent of the film Blade Runner and was composed by the musicians Don Quishoote, Neptunian8 and Subskan (from Ambivalence Recordz). Some pieces contain readings by Jean-Paul Dermont.
Overall, the book received excellent critics. An English translation of the book is being written, as well as a sequel.