Gilles Vranckx was born with a pencil in hand. He studied graphic design, animation and comic art. His influences vary from Ashley wood, Kent Williams, Mike Allred, to Rene Gruau, Edward Hopper and old 50'-60' ads. He has a wide diversity in styles due to his animation background. Watching films is his favorite past time and his greatest inspiration. He currently works on a 6 issue mini-series with writer Scott Closter called The "Z-list" and his own personal grafic novel "Girl:now that you've gone" wich he'll make it into a shortfilm after. Also works in the ad business between personal work. He exibited several times in Brussels and Antwerp. Gilles also is a filmprogrammer for the offscreen filmfestival and does some DJ-ing in the weekends.