Born in Aarschot, Steve Van Bael completed his high school in 1997, and he was honored for his many contributions to the school's newspaper. The same year, he was contacted by a comics artist to do a promotional comic for a comics festival in Diest. He joined the Stripgilde, an organization of comics authors. He took drawing courses in Mechelen from Rik Dewulf. In 2002, he joined Dewulf in Studio Max, where he worked on the inking of 'Stam en Pilou'. In 2003, he began working on his own detective series for the publishing house Dupuis. The first album of the 'Link' series appeared in 2005.
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