Djillali Defali was born in Bordeaux into an artistic family. A self-taught artist, he made his first appearance on the comics front with the one-shot comic book 'La Proie', that was published by Le Cycliste in 1998. He then started the series 'Garous' with scriptwriter Jean-Charles Gaudin, that was published by Soleil between 1999 and 2011. He signed his early work D'Fali, but now he mainly works under the name Defali.
