Frans Mensink attended the Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam. He works as a graphic designer, illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist, while also doing work for the Dutch Government, travel agencies, publishers, ESA, ESTEC, etc. He has made a couple of albums in the advertising comics collections 'Jules en Ollie' and 'Stedenstrips' with writer Huibert van der Meer: 'Nare blaren in Nijmegen' (KBU), ''t Heen-en-weertje Helmond' (Concept, 1997) and 'Vuurwerk in Venlo' (Concept, 1997).