Q:Facts: - genres: history strip cartoon , assay , novelist , true crime , - art: y - sucat: french - write: y - caption: image of jean-francois miniac - birth name: jean-francois miniac - nickname: solidor - birth date: 17 february 1967 - movement: realism -lrb- literature -rrb- - nationality: french - image: thumb - birth place: paris - activity: writer , essayist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jean-francois miniac .
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jean-francois miniac -lrb- born 1967 -rrb- , better known under his pen name solidor , is a french comic book creator -lrb- writer and artist -rrb- .he was born in paris born , february 17 , 1967 , and lives in france .after a few drawing lessons taken at herge from 1976 to 1978 , in 1987 he had a formal training in the visual arts at the gobelins school of the image in paris .in 1994 , claude lefrancq , a belgian comic publisher , asked rosalind hicks to publish hercule poirot 's comic book , showing her the blake and mortimer 's comic book , '' mortimer versus mortimer '' .in 1995 , with the novelist francois riviere , french agatha christie specialist , miniac drew his first cartoon series , '' agatha christie '' , published at lefrancq publishing , in edgar p. jacobs 's spirit , in schematic style .it was a success .after the publisher went bankrupt in 2000 , ep publishers -lrb- la martiniere group , paris -rrb- published the comic books , the first one in october 2002 and the second one in february 2003 .in four years , 20 000 copies of each have been sold in france -lrb- at the end of 2006 , 148 000 copies for all the books -rrb- .in july 2007 , '' death on the nile '' and '' murder on the orient express '' were released by harper collins uk as a comic strip , adapted by francois riviere and illustrated by solidor .these books will be published by harper collins in australia the first november of this year .also , one jean-francois miniac 's ancestor is louis duchesne , a french historian -lrb- academie francaise -rrb- .marc tanguy , saint-malo 's marksman , another ancestor was one of the survivors of the french 74-gun ship redoutable at battle of trafalgar in 1805 .at present , miniac is writing his story .