He comes from to a respected architect family. With 16 he published his first Comic. Later he studied at the academy of arts Saint Luc in Brussels. Les Cites obscure Francois Schuiten and Benoit Peeters invent in their comics parallel worlds, whose cultures are at the place to something completely new. Thus for example the nature is defeated for the first time.
Humanity has the feeling to be at the start of a new world full of inventions and new theories.
In his comics Schuiten copies the drawing style of the compareable epoch of our real world. His heroes are seer, who believe in the power of the good sense pushed by the knowledge of a marvelous future. But there are also architecs, city planners, researchers, archivists and sculptors, who support the preservation of the order. The architecture as a sign for social conditions is the central topic of the two artists. Schuiten and Peeters do not settle their stories from the cycle Les Cites obscure in the reality.