After his art studies and military service, Jean-Luc Istin starts to work as a comics scenarist. From 1999, he cooperated on the fanzine Avenir, where he met artist Guy Michel. With Michel, he began the comics series 'Aquilon' and 'Arthur Pendragon'. Istin expanded his activities and started writing for Dim D. ('Aleph', 'Le Seigneur d'Ombre'), Minguez ('Le Grimoire de Féérie'), and Eric Lambert ('Merlin'). He is one of the co-founders of the publishing house Nucléa. After working as a scenarist for a while, Istin started drawing himself. He began such series as 'Draven' (with text by Vincent Arnoul) and 'Les Brumes d'Asceltis' (text by Nicolas Jarry).
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