Mattt (Mathieu) Konture made his professional debut in 1984 in the magazines Le Lynx, Vipère, Psikopat, Nerf and Sponge. In 1985, he made the small comic book 'Ruga Zébo Violent,' which was published in the first Patte de Mouche collection of l'A.A.N.A.L., the predecessor of l'Associaton. He also made several stories with the character 'Galopu', that appeared in Réciproquement and Krokodile Comix and were collected in the book 'Souterrain' by Futuropolis.