Khoa Nguyen Vinh, who signs his work Vink, was born in Vietnam in 1950. He studied Journalism in Saigon, before moving to Belgium in 1969, where he took classes in Medicine and Teaching. In 1975 he changed course and commenced a study in Fine Arts with a specialization in Illustration in Liège between 1975 and 1978. It was there that he met his wife Claudine (Cine), with whom he has cooperated on a variety of comics projects as well.