Alain Goffin was part of a new generation artists that came from Claude Renard's comics atelier at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels, famous for their Ligne Claire (Clear Line) style. In 1978, he used the pseudonym Hanin for his earliest works in À Suivre. Three years later, he worked with scriptwriter François Rivière on the creation of 'Thierry Laudacieux', also for À Suivre. This series was collected in albums by Casterman.
