Serge Le Tendre was born in 1946 in
Vincennes, near Paris, in France. When he was 16, he started working as an assistant-accountant but two years later he started following the comics lessons at the university, delivered by artists and scholars like
Jean-Claude Mézières,
Jean Giraud, and
Claude Moliterni. Fellow students included Régis Loisel and
André Juillard. By 1974, he was writing short comics stories for artists like
Annie Goetzinger and
Dominique Hé, which appeared in and other magazines. In 1975 he created with Loisel, which first appeared in ; it was restarted in in 1982 and appeared in album format from the next year onwards. In 1984 he co-created the first two albums of for
Pierre Makyo. ==Bibliography==