Steve Van Bael original comic art

In 2002, he joined Dewulf in Studio Max!, where he worked on the inking of 'Stam en Pilou' and 'De Planckaerts', a comic strip based on the eponymous reality TV series centering around Belgian cyclist Eddy Planckaert and his family. He also assisted Merho on 'Kiekeboe' in 2003, and was an allround artist on the series from 2006 to 2008. In 2003, he began working on his own detective series, 'Link'. The comic was published in the papers Het Belang van Limburg and Gazet van Antwerpen, and was collected in two albums by Dupuis. He launched his comic about secret agent 'Figaro' at Standaard Uitgeverij in 2008. Five albums of this series with several James Bond references were published until 2010. New books are published by Saga since 2014.