Christian Denayer

Christian Denayer originally focused on becoming a teacher, but he eventually chose an artistic career. Because of his passion for cars, he became Jean Graton's assistant when he was 17 years old. He cooperated on about 10 albums of the 'Michel Vaillant' series. In addition, he made some gags in Junior, as well as 'Alain Bercy' in Formule 1 in 1967, followed by 'L'Écurie Europe' in J2 Jeunes. He later worked as the assistant of Tibet on 'Ric Hochet'. Tibet then encouraged him to create his own comic, which resulted in the 'Yalek' series, which appeared with scripts by André-Paul Duchâteau in Le Soir Jeunesse from 1969.

For the same magazine and with the same scenario writer, he soon produced 'Alain Chevallier', which gave him a chance to work on a comic with cars once again. Initially created under the joint pseudonym Cap, Denayer and Duchâteau continued the series in the magazine Tintin. Also for Tintin, he took on 'Les Casseurs' in 1975, a series that was later retitled to 'Al et Brock'. Denayer and Duchâteau were briefly present in Spirou with 'L'Inspecteur Spirou' and 'Patrick Leman'. While still working on his police series 'Al et Brock', Denayer created the SF comic 'Gord' with Franz in 1986.

For publisher Claude Lefrancq, he drew the series 'T.N.T.' with texts by Loup Durand and Duchâteau, based on the oeuvre of novellist Michaël Borga. At Lombard, Denayer produced the teen comic 'High School Generation', for which he did both the scenario and artwork. Five albums appeared between 1994 and 1998. In 2000, he started working with Jean Van Hamme on the hit series 'Wayne Shelton', published by Dargaud. After two episodes, Van Hamme was succeeded by Thierry Cailleteau.