Roger Copuse was a radio technician in the Merchant Navy, and then radio operator on board of Sabena flights between Brussels and New York until the mid 60's. He started making comics under the pen name Hubuc for Spirou in the early 1960s. He made a score of stories in the magazine's "mini-books" section between 1961 and 1967, starring characters like 'Alertogas' and 'Le Bel-Albert', the latter with art by Mike. He also cooperated with Jacques Devos on 'Les Mémoires de Victor Sébastopol' (1963-64) and then made the longer 'Alertogas' stories 'Le Labyrinthe' (1964) and 'Dans le Sillage des Argonautes' (1965) for Spirou's regular pages.
