Cecil

With his understated take on the steampunk genre, Cécil creates a believable world without overdoing it with machinery and contraptions of all kinds, preferring instead to infuse his settings with an Art Déco atmosphere that lends itself to organic forms. His fluid line work twirls from one panel to the next, much like his acrobatic burglars, allowing him to develop dynamic and powerful compositions. The beauty of his settings and his luminous color palette only serves to accentuate—like a distorting mirror—the vice of a society that hides behind a veneer of social propriety. 

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Cécil (Christophe Coronas) developed a passion for drawing and a desire to tell stories at a very early age. In 1984, he enrolled at the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts, before beginning his career as an artist in advertising and children’s illustration, notably for Bayard. In 1990–1991, he published his first artwork, L’Empreinte des chimères (The Imprint of Chimeras), under the name Christophe Coronas, based on a script by Mathieu Gallié. While reading a novel by Serge Brussolo, an idea for a story came to Cécil. He worked on and developed it for four years before discussing it with Éric Corbeyran: Le Réseau Bombyce (The Bombyce Network) was born. In an imaginary Paris of the early 20th century, heavily influenced by steampunk aesthetics and Art Nouveau architecture, Mouche and Eustache form the Bombyce Network, a duo of virtuoso and elusive acrobatic burglars. Complete biography.