Born in 1971, Didier Poli studied Applied Arts at the Emile Cohl School. In the late 1990s, he started working for several animation studios, including Disney, Dupuis and Ubi Animation, and he became art director of Kalisto Entertainment in 2001. With writer Manuel Bichebois he created the fantasy comic The Child of the Storm. He and writer Guillaume Dorison were the driving forces behind the series of The Little Prince adaptations, that also involved artwork by Moebius and a host of other artists.