Canadian artist François Miville-Deschênes was born in 1969. He created several commissioned comic strips including Les Mésaventures de Bobo in 1997, Intégration: Quelle intrigue! in 1999, and Les Aventures d'Anne-Sophie et de Julien: Le Mystère du Lac in 2000.  Around 2002 he pitched his comics project Millenium, written by Richard D. Nolane, which was eventually translated to Danish, Italian, Dutch and German.