While doing research for his decorations, he read in an American magazine the article "Comics in your Life". Fascinated, Vandersteen searched for more information on the subject. He rediscovered Hergé with "The Adventures of Tintin" in "Le Petit Vingtième", but also the realistic work of Hal Foster in "Prince Valiant". But it took a few more years before this fascination translated into steady publication of his own comics. Meanwhile, his first published drawings appeared in "Entre Nous", the internal magazine of L'Innovation.