Louis-Michel Carpentier was born in Uccle. After his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he initially focused on animation, and found employment with the Belvision studios of Éditions Lombard in 1967. He was an inbetweener on the films 'Astérix et Cléopâtre' and 'Tintin et le Temple du Soleil', and chief animator for 'Tintin et le lac aux requins', the 'Lucky Luke' film 'Daisy Town' and 'La flûte à six schtroumpfs'. By 1975, Carpentier adapted a few novels by the Countess of Ségur to comic stories for the women's magazine Femmes d'aujourd'hui. Casterman collected them in ten books between 1975 and 1984.
