Philippe Francq
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Philipe Francq (b. 1961 in Etterbeek) is a Belgian comic book artist.
[edit] Biography
Philippe Francq 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.
Later, he studied comic drawing at the Saint Luc Academy in Brussels. After some minor successes like Women and Cities (Dargaud), he met author Jean Van Hamme, then already one of the most successful European comic authors with Thorgal and XIII. Van Hamme offered Francq a comic based on some novels he had written ten years earlier, and this was in 1990 the basis for the series Largo Winch. Since then, this as well has become an extremely successful series, and is now the only series Francq makes anymore.
Philippe Francq has a realistic style, with mainly thin and edgy lines.
[edit] Awards
- 1992: Nominated for Best Cover and Best Long Comic strip at the Haxtur Awards, Spain
- 1994: Best Drawing at the Haxtur Awards
- 1996: Best Long Comic Strip at the Haxtur Awards
- 2003: Nominated for the Audience Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France
- 2004: Nominated for Best Long Comic Strip at the Haxtur Awards
- 2006: Nominated for the Audience Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
[edit] Sources
Gert Jan Pos (2004). "Miljardair & moralist". Myx 2 (3): 26 – 27.
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