Born in Paris, Ivan Terlecki (Libon) studied Fine Arts in Beauvais. He worked as an infographics artist for games for several years, before turning to comics. He published his first short stories in Psikopat, and worked with Boulet on the 'Miya' comic in Tchô!, before beginning a regular collaboration with Spirou magazine in 2004. He started his comical series about a giant lizard as a mini-booklet called 'Claudia Zila' in 2004.