André Geerts (18 December 1955 – 27 July 2010) was a Belgian comics creator best known for his series Jojo.
He studied at the Institut Saint-Luc art school in Brussels.
[1] He started working for Le Soir Jeunesse (the youth supplement of newspaper Le Soir) in 1974, when he was only 18 years old, before joining the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou.
His success series Jojo, about the small scale, real life but humoristic adventures of a boy of seven years old, started in 1983, with on average one new album a year.
[2][3] He also created later on Mademoiselle Louise, about a girl of about the same age as Jojo, but who is extremely rich and lonely.