Mario Boon was born in Sint-Truiden. At the age of 17, he produced an album of penguin gags, which he self-published. After two more penguin books, the series was bought up by publisher Hans Matla from The Hague. Boon then attended the Saint-Luc in Gent and graduated in illustration and design. He found employment at the Studio 100, where he worked for two years. He started out doing illustration work for children's books and magazines. In 2000, the publishing house De Eenhoorn published Boon's first children's book, called 'De Kip van Huub'. For the Flemmish department of the publishing house Dupuis, he took on the comics series about the punkrock band 'X!nk'. He began the website pulp-deluxe, which became a breeding ground for young talent. Through this site, he got in touch with the Dutch artist Freek van Haagen, with whom he started working on the series 'Zornik'.
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