Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme

In April 2011, Bastien Lecouffe Deharme wrote and illustrated 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".

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.

In 2007 he moved to Paris, where he worked as Artistic Director for the art gallery Le Cabinet des Curieux. There he organized the shows Eros and Thanatos, Venus Robotica and Phantasms, as a trilogy. He also worked on "Chroniques des Ombres" (Shadows Chronicles), an online animated graphic novel written by Pierre Bordage, as an Artistic Director and Lead Artist.

On the eve of the winter of 2004, William Drum, former inspector in Chicago's police is exiled by his superiors into Retrocity. A secluded, fallen City, that was hidden from everyone's sight over half a century ago With the typewriter he found in his apartment as his only companion, William begins writing his diary, and plunges into the City. A timeless City, whose citizens have long since deserted. A sick City, plagued by a strange virus. A City where mechanical parts replace human organs. A City from which there is no coming back.

Bastien Lecouffe Deharme was born in Vannes in 1982.

In the early 1980s, his family moved from Paris to Auray in Brittany, where he would spend his childhood and teenage years. In 2000, B. passed a baccalauréat in literature and art, and joined the Université de Haute Bretagne in Rennes (Brittany), where he studied Art. In 2006, he passed his Master of Fine Arts with honors; it is also around that time that he began to work as an illustrator, mainly creating book covers.