'Chez Poje'.
Louis-Michel Carpentier was born in 1944 in Uccle. After his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he initially focused on animation, and found employment with the Belvision studios of Éditions Lombard in 1967. He was an inbetweener on the films 'Astérix et Cléopâtre' (directed by Ray Goossens, 1968) and 'Tintin et le Temple du Soleil',(1969) and chief animator for 'Tintin et le Lac aux Requins' ('Tintin and the Lake of Sharks', 1972), the 'Lucky Luke' film 'Daisy Town' (1971) and 'La Flûte à Six Schtroumpfs' ('The Flute and the Six Smurfs', 1976). By 1975, Carpentier adapted a few novels by the Countess of Ségur to comic stories for the women's magazine Femmes d'aujourd'hui. Casterman collected them in ten books between 1975 and 1984.
'Les Toyottes'.
Since the 1980s, Carpentier has worked extensively with scriptwriter Raoul Cauvin. Their first collaboration was the post-apocalyptic series 'Les Toyottes', of which the first story was published in Pistil, and of which Casterman and Lombard published six books until 1989. Carpentier also made game pages with the characters for the magazine Jouez avec Quick et Flupke. Carpentier and Cauvin then made a short-lived toyline tie-in comic called 'De Biepjes', and began an association with the educational publisher Artis-Historia and its magazine Artiscope in 1985.
Cauvin and Carpentier's best-known collaboration is the series about pub owner Poje, initially called 'L'Année de la Bière' and published by Archers in 1986 and 1987. The series also knew a couple of successful editions in local dialects, and was eventually published under the title 'Du Côté de Chez Poje' by Dupuis between 1990 and 2009. The series was also translated into Dutch under the title 'Bij Sjaak, Tussen Pot en Pint'.
On 30 November 2006, 'Du Côté de Chez Poje' received its own comic book wall in the Rue de l'Ecuyer/ Schildknaapstraat 55 in Brussels, as part of the local Brussels' Comic Book Route.
'Le Jour le Plus Con'.
Also for Archers, Carpentier created 'Humour en Tranch(é)es', a comical series about the First World War, with Claude Armant in 1985. Carpentier continued this series on his own under the title 'Le Jour le Plus Con' for his own publishing house Top Game between 1989 and 1997. He also assembled his fellow artists Malik, Kox and Jidéhem to create the saucy album series 'Chansons Cochonnes', published by Top Game in 1990-1992.
Since 2007, Carpentier is affiliated with Joker Éditions, starting with three books of the medieval series 'Embrouilles à Mortecouille'. He also relaunched the 'Poje' comic with this publisher in 2012. The comic now appears under the title 'Les Potes à Poje', both written and drawn by Carpentier. His son Laurent Carpentier is his regular colorist.
Louis-Michel Carpentier was an influence on Pieter De Poortere.
'Embrouilles à Mortecouille'.