Philippe Francq was born in
Etterbeek in 1961. He was since his youth an ardent comic reader, who grew up with the comics from
Tintin magazine from the 1950s. His early favourites were
Blake and Mortimer,
Spike and Suzy,
Alix and
The Adventures of Tintin. He finished studying comic drawing at the
Saint Luc Academy in
Brussels when he was 23. and is now the only series Francq makes anymore, at a rate of one album a year. Philippe Francq lives in the South of France. ==Bibliography==