ALAIN GOFFIN 

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.