Renaud Farace was born in Zagreb, Croatia. He has contributed to French fanzines since the mid-1990s, such as L'Aventure Quoi, Inzeunoz, Motosexe and OZ. He was selected at the Youth Talent Contest in Angoulême in 2005, and published his first album, 'La Querelle des Arbres', with Le Seuil Jeunesse in 2008. In that year, he also started working on a comic biography of 'The Beatles'.