Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme | |
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.jpg) Bastien Lecouffe Deharme, self-portrait (2013) | |
| Born | 10 January 1982 Vannes, France |
| Pen name | B. |
| Occupation | Illustrator, visual artist, photographer, writer |
| Nationality | French |
| Genre | Science fiction Retrofuturism Cyberpunk Dark fantasy |
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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, US.
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.
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.
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 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".[1]
Today Bastien Lecouffe Deharme works with international clients (Tor Books, Random House, HarperCollins, Applibot, ...). His work is represented by the agency Shannon Associates (NYC).
- ^ Editions du Riez's webpage for Memories of Retrocity Archived March 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.