Filipe Abranches was born in Lisbon, in 1965. He makes illustration and comics, and collaborates regularly with several newspapers (Público, Le Monde, Mil Folhas, etc).
He graduated in Cinema at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, in Editing and attended the History course at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.
Oriented several cartoon’s ateliers and workshops for schools.
He won in 1998, the first grant of Literary Creation for Cartoon given by the Portuguese Book and Libraries Institute and the Ministry of Culture.