From 2003 to 2013, he was artistic director of the cultural programming of Angoulême International Comics Festival, in France.

[1] After having obtained in 1999 a masters of Literature in the Sorbonne (Paris IV), he becomes French professor for high school programme, intend to devote itself to journalism.

He is also the author of several books, of which an investigation into the ghost writer of the Belgian school Jacques Van Melkebeke and, in collaboration with François Rivière, a biography of the creator of "Blake and Mortimer", Edgar P. Jacobs.

Since 2004, he animates the two-monthly meetings "the territories of the comic strip" for the BPI of the Pompidou Centre.

Under its artistic direction, the Festival of Angoulême considerably consolidated its opening to the international scene and the young creation, while producing a great number of events apart from Angoulême, in particular with Paris (exhibitions produced for the Musée de l’Homme, Mondial de l’automobile or Jardin d’acclimatation).