After his studies in plastic arts, Guy Delisle went to work for the animation studios CinéGroupe in Montréal. When the studios folded, Delisle went to Europe, where he worked in a studio in Munich for six months. After having lived in Berlin and Valence, he finally settled in Montpellier in 1991. Although he had done an occasional comic, he began his actual comics career at L'Assocation in 1995.