Walter Goossens, alias Walt, was born on 16 September 1966 in Brussels. He shows a very early interest in comic books in general, and in the work of his father (Gos) in particular.
He is only three years old when, crawling under the drawing table, he manages to clamber up onto the drawing board, where he knocks a pot of Indian ink over onto a nearly finished comic strip. He will confirm his interest in his father’s work by doing the same with a cup of coffee at a later date!
He starts practising the tricks of the trade at the age of ten, learning both how to wield the pen and how to compose lettering.
When he starts his secondary education, at twelve years old, he also enrols at the art school of Anderlecht where he will take evening classes for six years.
Walt is only sixteen when he begins to work with his father, contributing to the “Scrameustache” books since 1983. Charged with lettering in the beginning, Walt is gradually allowed to progress to inking the backgrounds and the characters and this development eventually culminates in Walt taking full creative responsibility for scriptwriting, crayoning and so on through to the final clean copy.
His preferred subject remains the world of the Galaxiens, so the “Scrameustache” series includes both solo works from the hand of either Walt or Gos and works that they have created together, which carry both of their names.
One thing is for sure: the father has found his successor !
