[1] He achieved success first on the internet in 2002 on his BK Crew[2] website under the pseudonym "Chanmax" with the character and comic strips of "Poungi la Racaille", which became viral,[3] and was published in libraries in 2006 by Danger Public.

When he was 25 years old, in January 2009, Vivès received the Angoulême Festival Revelation Award for his album A Taste of Chlorine (Le goût du chlore).

[citation needed] In 2010 and 2011, he participated of the online drama Les Autres Gens, written by Thomas Cadène, drawing seven episodes.

[7] In 2022, in the wake of the 50th anniversary of the International Festival of Angoulême, an exhibition featuring exclusive new illustrations by the artist (and no old ones) was programmed.

Several petitions were launched to oppose this decision, claiming the Festival was putting in the spotlight an artist whose work was, if not encouraging, displaying incestuous and pedophile images and scenes.