Although Philippe Bertrand is mostly known today for his beautiful erotic work, he started out as a cartoonist in the tradition of clear line drawing, having his work published in Partisans and L'Idiot International in the early 1970s. During this decade, he also cooperated with Zinc and Charlie Mensuel, for which he drew his first personal comic, 'A Cet Instant aux Antipodes' in 1979.
