Sylvain Guinebaud got his degree in graphic arts at the University of Saint-Denis. He had his first comics publications in BD Clip, a collective album published in Zone Créative in 1997. He teamed up several of his university friends to create the collective album 'Requiem Tenebrae'. With Froideval, he began the 'Harkhanges' series at Albin Michel in 2002.