Olivier Guéret was born in Louvain on 12th October 1970 and has always had two passions: films and graphic novels.

He started out in the hotel business. He spent four years at catering school and

then worked for several years in the trade. Quickly, however, his passion for movies

and comics got the upper hand. From 1996 he collaborated with various

magazines, writing articles about films and graphic novels. In 1998 he became a

full-time journalist. From then on Olivier Guéret worked as a critic of films and

graphic novels for two well-known Belgian weeklies: Le Soir Magazine and

Télémoustique. He also interviewed film-makers, actors and artists for the

magazines as well as for many Internet sites.

In 1999 he embraced the audio-visual world. He covered cinema and graphic novel

news for several television programmes in Belgium. He also covered the Brussels

Film Festival for the cable channel Event TV. He has participated in several

promotional film campaigns including the animated cartoon film Excalibur,

produced by Warner Brothers. He contributed to the translation of the book 2001,

A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick for Les Cahiers du Cinéma.

In 2001 Olivier Guéret launched Zoom Productions, his own TV production company, associated with RTL-TVI.

The company produces DVD bonuses, such as those for Les Triplettes de Belleville.

Olivier Guéret met Nicolas Vadot in 1998, at an exhibition of Nicolas's press cartoons. Their common interests in both

movies and graphic novels brought them rapidly together. Olivier Guéret launched straight into reworking the scenario

f The Depressor, a story invented by Nicolas Vadot but then unpublished. The result was the three volumes of Gerry

Geronimo published by Les Editions du Lombard between 2001 and 2004.

In May 2006, Casterman will release 80 Days for which Olivier Guéret is the co-scenarist.

Olivier Guéret has two children, Théo and Marylou.