Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem is a Belgian writer and producer. He has a master's degree in languages. He has written or co-written screenplays for fifteen feature films in Flanders and the Netherlands including Cannes Critics' Week screenplay award winner Moscow, Belgium (2008). Jean-Claude is the co-author of several critically acclaimed and widely translated Young Adult novels. His latest, Ironhead or Once a Young Lady will be published in the U.S. in 2022. 

After studying art at Saint-Luc in Ghent, advertising illustrator Thomas Du Caju worked in animation and 3D. He collaborated with Merho on De Kiekeboes, then with the Vandersteen studios on Bob and Bobette (Spike and Suzy). In 2005, he illustrated the crime series Sabbatini, written by Luc Morjaeu for the Dutch magazine Mezzanine. Then, he teamed up with producer and scriptwriter Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem for the series Betty & Dodge, followed by The Lions of Leningrad.