Christian Durieux studied comics at the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels. He teamed up with Jean Dufaux, with whom he made the series Avel, after which he worked with his friend and collaborator Luc Dellisse on the futuristic thriller Foudre. After creating the independent story Benito Mambo in 1999, he illustrated series Columbia in Spirou written by Jean-Luc Cornette the same year.