Jean-Philippe Stassen (born 14 March 1966 in Liège, Belgium) is a Belgian comics creator best known for Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda.
Born in Liège to a Flemish father and a Jewish mother, Jean-Philippe Stassen started travelling at a young age.
He travelled through Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Mali, Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.
Stassen and Lapière continued their collaboration in the collection Aire Libre of Dupuis, where they created the diptych Le Bar du Vieux Français in 1992.
Stassen then wrote Louis le Portugais on his own, another touching human tragedy, this time situated in the suburbs of Liège .