Alain Chevallier

After teaching school, his first vocation, Christian Denayer launches into the drawing. It starts in Journal of Tintin in 1962, when Jean Graton entrusted sets and Car Michel Vaillant. In 1966, he meets Tibet who does work on the series Ric Rattle and introduced him to André-Paul Duchateau.

Born of their collaboration in 1969 Yalek, first in the Belgian daily Le Soir then in the Journal of Tintin, and in 1970 the adventures of the racing driver Alain Chevallier. 

The series was published by Rossel space 7 albums (1973-1977) and then it goes into pre-published in Tintin and the publication in Lombard. Jean Graton and Lombard Tintin leaves to 1975-76. It seems that the series has just been created by authors who wish to enjoy the success of Michel Vaillant. However the departure of Jean Graton really left a void in Tintin, or the recruitment of an already existing series competing to replace Michel Vaillant.

Julie Wood

Julie Wood is a comics series drawn and written by French cartoonist Jean Graton. It features the fictional character Julie Wood, who also appeared in some adventures of the comics series Michel Vaillant. The character was portrayed by German actress Diane Kruger in the 2003 film adaptation of Michel Vaillant.

Founded in 1976 by Jean Graton, this series has all the "mad motorcycle" and other comics fans by the diversity of its stories, but as for Michel Vaillant by extreme scenario precision and realism of his drawings. Julie Wood was regularly published in the comics magazine Super As. The albums were published from 1976 to 1979 by Dargaud, and in 1979 and 1980 by Fleurus. There were 8 albums plus 2 advertising albums. Then the series stopped in 1980, but the heroine was featured in the series Michel Vaillant in 1982, in which she becomes the bride of Steve Warson from the album Paris-Dakar.