An avid comics fan since his childhood, Alain Henriet took evening courses in comic art from Philippe Foerster and Gérard Goffaux during a period of three years. He then enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège, while contributing his first artwork to the short-lived magazine Brazil. Together with Baloo, he contributed short stories to L'Inédit and this magazine's publisher also published their first black-and-white comic book, 'Une pizza à l'oeil', in 1996. He won a contest held by Spirou and also worked at this magazine's editorial offices as an intern, before being employed there as a corrector in 1998.
