'C'est Écrit'.
Eric Andriantsialonina, A.K.A. Dwa, was born in Alatsinainy Bakaro. His parents moved to the city of Tana in 1993 and there Dwa, brought up with comics from Madagascar, came into contact with comics from other parts of the world. In 1999, he went to the University of Antananarivo to study Economics. He attended a drawing course and drew a 264 page thick comic book during the same three-year-period.
His work first appeared in the programme booklet of Madagascan comic festival Madabulles in 2004. After that, he wrote and drew a 32-page long story entitled 'Pions', which has remained unpublished. In February 2006, he joined the Kirajy Band, an association of illustrators who together created the satirical magazine Saringotra in which Dwa published a weekly one-page comic. After twenty issues, the magazine was discontinued.
Eric Andriantsialonina should not be confused with weightlifter Eric Andriantsitohaina (b. 1991).