Posters and large format prints 

Born in Brussels in 1956, Alain Goffin trained at the Atelier R comic strip workshop at the Ecole Saint Luc in Brussels (1975-1979). His drawing style is resolutely in line with the ligne claire school.

A contemporary of François Schuiten and a loyal friend, Alain Goffin worked with him on the Neuvième Rêve (1979), as well as with Claude Renard, Benoît Sokal and Berthet. He published his first strips in the monthly strip cartoon magazine (À SUIVRE) from issue one (1980). With François Rivière, he created the character of Thierry Laudacieux, a Brussels boy scout. They published two albums with Casterman: Le réseau Madou (1982) and La mine de l'étoile (1984). He began a new collaboration with Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten as scriptwriters and drew Plagiat! (published by Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1989). This album was awarded the coveted 1990 RTL Comics Prize. Next came Le théorème de Morcom (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1992), based on a breathless script by Benoît Peeters. Benoît Peeters and Alain Goffin went on to write an illustrated novel for teenagers, Le signe de Lucifer (Editions Nathan, 1990), which won the Lecture Publique prize awarded by the Communauté Française de Belgique. With Retour à la rapée (Editions Arboris, 1993), Alain Goffin wrote the text and illustrations for the first time. In 1997, he published a new album of comics, Northreed Project, with Éditions Dargaud, as a full scriptwriter and illustrator.

For the past thirty years, Alain Goffin has been teaching narrative image (comics/illustration) and graphic visual communication at the Ecole de Recherche Graphique (ERG) in Brussels. Alongside his career as an author, in 1990 he set up Studio Goffin, a visual communications studio in Brussels, where he produces visual communications campaigns.

In 2017, Alain Goffin completely reworked his iconic album Le réseau Madou in a new, reworked and recoloured edition.In 2023, it was the turn of Plagiat! co-written at the time by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, to be completely refreshed and given a new lease of life. Atlantic12 presents here some superb art prints from these 2 new editions.

"The urban landscape has a past, a present and a future that is perfectly perceptible to the attentive observer. This is what I try to show in my paintings by integrating the 4th dimension into the field of a limited 2-dimensional frame. In this way, I invite people to enter my works to better perceive the mutations underway and the real stakes of a new world to be built."

Luc Schuiten, older brother of François Schuiten, is as much an architect as a visionary visual artist. He found his place in the Solar punk movement, long before it was born. For almost 50 years, Luc Schuiten has been designing a multitude of projects, driven by a desire to live in symbiosis with the plant and bioclimatic environment. He tirelessly seeks alternative solutions to environmental degradation and to the banal, global architecture of design. Freeing himself from rigid or traditional construction lines, he tries to manage materials and techniques differently, and focuses his research on bioclimatic houses, dreaming of habitarbres - organic housing in osmosis with plants. For urban blighters, he builds vertical gardens based on the same poetic imagination. Over the years, this atypical architect has designed a multitude of projects driven by a concern for alternative lifestyles. This way of thinking has given shape to a new architecture based on a poetic vision in which invention and the relationship with nature play a key role. But it was above all in his utopian visions of futuristic architecture that he gave full rein to his creative and imaginative expression, with his proposals for cities built solely from living materials. To define these new living spaces linked to a different hierarchy of values, he coined the neologism archiborescence. As with his brother François, for whom he was the scriptwriter on children's albums and author of imaginary architectures, drawing is a tool for exploring future possibilities.

Parallel to his work as a utopian architect, as he likes to call it, he has a professional career devoted to the design of buildings - very concrete ones, characterized by great attention to the environment. For him, these two activities are complementary and mutually reinforcing.

Luc Schuiten is head of Atelier d'Architecture Schuiten sprl and President of VEGETAL CITY asbl. He is a founding member of Biomimicry Europa and ASBL Archi Human. He communicates his vision of the world through posters, lectures, books and exhibitions, for which he always designs the scenography.

Born in 1975 and a graduate of the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels, Romain Renard is a comic strip author, set designer, graphic artist and musician. He has worked on video games, designed shows with Franco Dragone and Pascal Jacob and is a songwriter, notably for the rock group ROM. His work for Casterman includes ‘American Seasons’ (based on a screenplay by Yves Vasseur), which won Best Album at the Cognac Polar Festival in 2005, ‘The End, Jim Morrison’ in 2007, the adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's novel ‘Un hiver de glace’ in 2011 and illustrations for the City-Guide Montreal/Québec published by Lonely Planet/Casterman. He then signed the ‘Melvile’ series for Lombard, a work comprising 4 stories that testifies to his undeniable artistic maturity.

In the same vein as ‘Melvile’, Romain Renard is bringing out his latest book, ‘Revoir Comanche’, a graphic novel in homage to Greg and Hermann's ‘Comanche’ (a cult western series from the ‘70s and ’80s), but in a completely different style. ‘Revoir Comanche’ features a black-and-white drawing with a very cinematic tone, and invites us on a road-movie in a mysterious atmosphere with end-of-the-world overtones. A poignant book and a visual slap in the face that won the 'Coup de Coeur' award at the Quai des Bulles Festival 2024 and is nominated for the Comic Strip's Victor Rossel award 2024.

To coincide with the release of this book, Atlantic12 is proud to publish a series of illustrations from the world of ‘Revoir Comanche’. These drawings are previously unpublished and mostly in colour, although the book is entirely in black and white. Printed in digigraphy (high-definition digital printing with pigment inks) on sumptuous natural white Arches BFK Rives paper, the prints are limited to 15 copies each and offer a breathtaking rendering.

David Merveille is a draughtsman and illustrator from Brussels. His drawings are tinged with nostalgia, slightly offbeat and always poetic. His drawings are tinged with nostalgia, slightly offbeat and always poetic. He was greatly inspired by the world of Jacques Tati. This has resulted in a wide range of works, including several children's books, numerous posters and a collection of illustrations for the complete Tati collection (Critérion, 2014). Since 1992, he has regularly exhibited his work and organised numerous group shows for the Maison de l'Image Seed Factory and the Huberty & Breyne Gallery. After working in the press, advertising and children's publishing, David Merveille turned to comics in collaboration with scriptwriter Zidrou. This co-creation gave rise to two albums bathed in Amalfi sunshine: Amore (2021) and Alessia (2024), published by Delcourt. Italy, the land of his ancestors, never ceases to inspire him. His recent exhibition of charcoal drawings in tribute to Marcello Mastroianni (Huberty & Breyne, 2024) is the most recent demonstration of this.

Atlantic12 is delighted to be working with David Merveille, a talented draughtsman and image-maker, to present his latest work in a series of drawings that plunge us into Paris and Brussels in a graphic style that is always meticulous and wonderfully poetic. His drawings are reproduced in digigraphy on beautiful Hahnemühle paper by the Numeris®Art studios, and all the prints are limited editions, numbered and signed.