After graduating from high school, Yannick Corboz entered the Emile Cohl school of applied arts in Lyon where he learned animation, illustration and comics.

With his diploma in hand, he worked as a 3D animator, illustrator and storyboarder in video game companies (Atari/Infogrames, Ubisoft, Étranges Libellules). He met the scriptwriter Nicolas Pothier (Ratafia, Junk) with whom he published a few short stories in the magazines Bodoï and Métal Hurlant, then a first album, BD Ciné, Woody Allen, was released in 2004 by Éditions Nocturne. Still with Nicolas Pothier, he published in 2006 Voies Off at Éditions Treize Étrange. In 2009, a second opus of BD Ciné, Woody Allen was published by Éditions BD Music.

He met shortly before that Wilfrid Lupano with whom he made the two-part work Célestin Gobe-la-Lune at Éditions Delcourt and then, from 2010 to 2016, L'assassin qu'elle mérite at Vents d'Ouest.

Since 2018, he draws Brigade Verhoeven at Rue de Sèvres on a scenario by Pascal Bertho. He also works as a freelance illustrator (communication, video games...) and exhibits his drawings and paintings in France and abroad.