François Boucq was born in Lille (France) in 1955. As a young adult and with no specific artistic education, he offered to draw caricatures for some magazines such as Le Point and L’Expansion who published them.He made several comic books but he became famous thanks to Les pionniers de l’aventure humaine (1984).

After having drawn a lot of comic books such as La pédagogie du trottoir, Bouche du diable, the Face de Lune series with Jodorowsky, Les aventures de la Mort et de Lao Tseu or La dérisoire effervescence des comprimé, François Boucq won the Grand Prix de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême in 1998 for his entire work.