Riff Reb's

Dominique Duprez, known as Riff Reb’s, is a comic artist and writer based in Le Havre. After studying at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, he founded the Atelier Asylum in 1984 with his friend and fellow author Arthur Qwak, a renowned hub of creativity. They were quickly joined by several artists and writers, including Cromwell and Édith. Their first project, Les Mondes Engloutis (Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea) —an animated series that was simultaneously adapted into a comic book—opened the doors to the Ninth Art for him. This led to subsequent works such as Le Bal de la sueur (The Sweat Ball), Aaargl, La Crève (The Sickness), Myrtil Fauvette, and Le Kid et Bergson… Within a few years, Riff Reb’s became one of the leading figures of a new school of comic art, skillfully blending dynamic and innovative artwork with an often irreverent narrative. He is responsible for the splendid adaptation À bord de l’Étoile Matutine (On Board the Morning Star), based on the novel by Pierre Mac Orlan (2009, published by Soleil), and La Carotte aux Étoiles (The Carrot to the Stars, 2010, published by La Gouttière). In 2012, he released another adaptation: Le Loup des Mers (The Sea-Wolf), based on the novel by Jack London and published by Éditions Soleil. This was followed in 2014 by Hommes à la mer (Men at Sea) from the same publisher —a loose adaptation of short stories by Conrad, Hodgson, Mac Orlan, Poe, Schwob, and Stevenson—and Le Vagabond des Étoiles (The Star Rover), a two-volume series based on Jack London’s literary masterpiece, published in 2019 and 2020. In 2025, he turned his hand to Eugène Sue’s novel, "Kernoc the Pirate". His comic strips are regularly exhibited at the Daniel Maghen Gallery in Paris.