- Philippe Francq
Philippe Francq (
December 13 1961 ) is a Belgiancomic book artist , best known for the series "Largo Winch ".Biography
Philippe Francq was born in Etterbeek in 1961.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Philippe Francq". In België gestript, pp. 111.
Tielt : Lannoo.] 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 fnished studying comic drawing at the Saint Luc Academy inBrussels when he was 23.After some minor success with "Des villes et des femmes" and "Léo Tomasini" (both at
Dargaud ), he met authorJean Van Hamme , then already one of the most successful European comic authors with "Thorgal " and "XIII", in 1988. 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, with initial sales of over 600,000 copies per album in French alone, [ [http://www.acbd.fr/bilan/page/bilan-2005.html ACBD page: sales figures for 2005] fr icon] and is now the only series Francq makes anymore, at a rate of one album a year. Philippe Francq lives in the South of France.Bibliography
Awards
*1992: Nominated for Best Cover and Best Long Comic strip at the
Haxtur Award s,Spain
*1994: Best Drawing at the Haxtur Awards
*1996: Best Long Comic Strip at the Haxtur Awards
*2003: Nominated for the Audience Award at theAngoulême 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 FestivalNotes
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* Béra, Michel; Denni, Michel; and Mellot, Philippe (2002): "Trésors de la Bande Dessinée 2003-2004".Paris , Les éditions de l'amateur. ISBN 2-85917-357-9
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