Bob et Bobette
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.