Paris-born Didier Teste, better known as Dieter, had no intentions of becoming a comics writer until he met Jean Léturgie. Dieter wrote his first stories for artists like Bruno Bouteville, Marc Malès and Thierry Robin, that were mainly published in Triolo in 1985 and 1986. In the following year, he began a fruitful collaboration with the publishing houses Milan and Bayard Presse. He wrote a great many stories and adaptations for magazines like Diabolo, Mikado, Astrapi, Okapi, Je Bouquine and I Love English, that were drawn by Olivier TaDuc, Christian Rossi, Dominique Rousseau, Raymond Poïvet and Pierre Frisano. His first long story was 'La Déesse aux Yeux de Jade', created with Michel Plessix and published by Milan in 1987.