Eugène Giroud, better known as Eugène Gire, was born in the Ardèche and started illustrating in 1935. Two years later, he drew his first comic strip, 'Hégésippe Dupont', for L'Épatant. From the early 1940s, Gire took on creating comics for Collection Junior of Éditions des Remparts ('Toto Tourbillon') and for the magazine Hardi Les Gars. Starting in 1945, he created various comics for the Collection Chiche, like 'Londa', 'Brouille et Petrouchka', 'La Guerre des Micropoussites', 'Télé et Fone' and 'Histoire de Huipatte et Hurrar'.
