François Schuiten

François Schuiten was born in Brussels on 26 April 1956. He published his first comics story in the Belgian edition of Pilote at the age of sixteen.
At the Saint Luke Art Institute (Brussels), Schuiten contributed to the student anthology Le 9e Rêve, launched by Claude Renard.
He went on to publish two albums with Renard (Métamorphoses) and three with his brother Luc (Les Terres creuses), before linking up with a childhood friend, Benoît Peeters, with whom he created Les Cités obscures (1982), a universe the two of them would continue to explore through stories such as La Fièvre d'Urbicande (1985), La Tour (1987), Brüsel (1992), La Frontière invisible (2002-2004) and La Théorie du grain de sable (2007-2008).
In 2012, Schuiten created the solo album 12 La Douce, before linking up with Peeters once again for the cycle Revoir Paris.
François Schuiten has also produced a great many illustrations and worked on several comic scripts, in addition to redesigning the décor for the Paris Arts et Métiers metro station and the Porte de Hal in Brussels.
He was awarded the Grand Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2002.