François Gilson is a Belgian comics author. Signing his work simply as Gilson, he is best known for Mélusine

Mélusine (comics)

Mélusine is a Belgian comic strip created by artist Clarke and writer Gilson and features short, humorous stories that centre around the life of a young witch who lives as an au pair in a castle and studies at a witches’ school .The strip first appeared in Spirou magazine in 1992...

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Biography

François Gilson is born in 1965 in Arolsen, Germany, where his father, who was with the Belgian Army, was stationed. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown Liège, but soon turned to writing instead of artwork. Gilson created his first comic Rebecca in 1987, with Clarke, an old friend from school (born on the same day as Gilson) with whom he had started the fanzine Cafard already in secondary school. He professionally started working for Spirou magazine

Spirou (magazine)

Spirou magazine is a weekly Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company...

in 1989, where he became one of the main writers. Apart from contributing to the existing series Scrameustache

Scrameustache

The Scrameustache is a fictional character in a science-fiction Franco-Belgian comics series of the same name. He was created by the Belgian artist Gos. Gos has written and drawn all the Scrameustache's adventures since 1972. Since the mid-1980s he has been assisted by his son Walt. Another son,...

, he wrote new series like Cactus Club for Bercovici

Philippe Bercovici

Philippe Bercovici is a French comics artist of Franco-Belgian comics. Having illustrated a wide range of series, Bercovici is perhaps most known for Les Femmes en Blanc written by Cauvin, started in 1981...

, Mélusine for Clarke, and Garage Isidore for Olis (later succeeded by Stédo).

External links

• Biography at Lambiek
  Lambiek
  Lambiek is a comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam, founded in 1968 by Kees Kousemaker .It has held exhibitions of art by comic creators, including Robert Crumb, Daniel Clowes, Erik Kriek, André Franquin, Tanino Liberatore and Chris Ware...
  
   Comiclopedia
• Blog of Gilson (in French)