Malik, the grandson of a minister under Tchang Kaishek, was born on the 2nd of January, 1948. In his childhood he is taken along to Indochina, France and Belgium. Cruising through all these countries and cultures, he is educated in a mix of cultures, learning from the traditional Chinese culture but also from reading the novels of Alexandre Dumas or “Moustache et Trottinette” by Calvo. But his bedside book in his childhood is “Souvenirs entomologiques” by Fabre.

Until the age of 14, at his Jesuit school in Brussels, he learns to draw the saints on the calendar and the girls of the school next door…

However, he does gain some experience in comic strips because he creates illustrations for TINTIN, draws several stories of “Oncle Paul” in SPIROU. In 1971 he gets to work with Jean-Marie Brouyère which leads to the birth of two muscular worlds: the series “Archie Cash” and the diptych “Blue Bird”. He also brings forth other heroes: the gorilla “Big Joe” in the humoristic area, “Johnny Paraguay” and “Chiwana” in the realistic adventures.

Since 1987 he has mainly done humoristic work, such as the cherub “Cupidon”, based on scripts by Raoul Cauvin, and they are great at it. Isn’t humour all that matters in the world?

Just like Cupid, Malik has more than one string to his bow, because he is also involved in intimate relationships while he adapts several “Chansons cochonnes” for comic strips for ÉditionsTop -Game of his friend Carpentier. In 1989 he briefly returns to realism when he adapts the novel “Les Colonnes du ciel” of Bernard Clavel.

In his spare time he devotes himself to painting and particularly to his very strange passion: poisonous spiders and reptiles of no less frightening reputation. He claims to have raised three-quarters of the tarantulas in Belgium, and is quite proud of the successful reproduction of the famous Lycose de Narbonne, the “wolf spider”, a huntress tarantula described by his beloved Fabre…