While attending comics courses in Vincennes, Serge Le Tendre was advised by Jean-Claude Mézières to abandon his ambitions as and as artist and to focus solely on writing scenarios. In the period 1974-82, he wrote several short stories for Pilote, which were illustrated by artists Dominique Hé, Annie Goetzinger and Michel Rouge. He also did scripts for magazines like Mormoil and Tousse-Bourin. In 1975, he started the series 'La Quête de l'Oiseau du Temps' with Loisel in the shortlived magazine Imagine. It was reprised in Charlie Mensuel from 1981. From 1977, Le Tendre intensified his work with scenarios for more magazines, including Fluide Glacial, Métal Hurlant, Hop!, Jonas, Plop, and Circus.
In 1982, he helped Makyo on writing the first two episodes of 'Jerôme K. Jerôme Bloche' for Alain Dodier in Spirou. After some appearances in Frilouz, Chic and Astrapi, Le Tendre teamed up with Christian Rossi and created 'Les Errances de Julius Antoine' in L'Écho des Savanes. While still writing for some smaller comics magazines, he created 'Les Voyages de Takuan' with the Italian artist Emiliano Simeoni and later TaDuc in Pilote-Charlie in 1987. Together with Rodolphe, he created 'Taï-Dor' for Jean-Luc Serrano and later Luc Foccroulle (albums by Novedi and Vents d'Ouest).
Starting in the late 1990s, Le Tendre also scripted for Okapi, I Love English and the publishing house Infogrammes. Besides series and magazine work, he has also written several independent stories, published directly in albums, such as 'Le Château de Fontainebleau (with Fabien Lacaf, I.D. Program, 1985), 'Edmond et Gustave' (with Rossi, Futurpolis, 1987), 'L'Oiseau Noir' (with Dethorey, Dupuis, 1992) and 'La Dernière Lune' (with Rodolphe and Parras, Lombard, 1993). New series in the 1990s include 'Labyrinthes' with Jean-Denis Pendanx (Glénat, 1993), 'La Gloire d'Héra' with Rossi (À Suivre, 1995), 'Chinaman' with TaDuc (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1997) and 'L'Ami Javin' with Loisel and Lidwine (Dargaud, 1998).
In 2000, he joined the publishing house Delcourt with 'L'Histoire de Siloë', illustrated by Servain. In 2001, he worked with Rossi again on 'Tirésias', and in 2003, he teamed up with Rodolphe once again to create 'Mister Georges' for Hugues Labiano in the collection Signe de Piste of Lombard. In 2004, he began 'Le Livre des Destins' with Frank Biancarelli at Soleil.
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