Philippe Petit-Roulet was born in Paris and published his first comics in Zinc magazine, in 1973. In the following years, he worked for other magazines, such as La Gueule Ouverte and L'Écho des Savanes, creating short stories. Some of these were collected in his first album, 'Rien de Spécial', which appeared in 1980. In this same year, he started to collaborate with writer Didier Martiny, with whom he created short stories for Charlie Mensuel and L'Écho des Savanes as well as the character Bruce Predator in À Suivre.