Philippe Petit-Roulet was born in Paris in 1953 and published his first comic in Zinc magazine in 1973. He often collaborates with writer Didier Martiny, creating The Flop Circus in 1985 for the magazine Metal Hurlant. In the early 1990s, he illustrated children's books for the Reporter and Le Seuil Jeunesse. Petit-Roulet also ventured into animation and produced Loulou and Other Wolves, in addition to working extensively in the field of advertising.