Espé was born in 1974 in Mazamet, Tarn. Even as a child, he tried to produce comics inspired by his heroes: Serval, Daredevil and other superheroes. Following the advice of his parents, "Pass your baccalaureate first", he headed for a scientific course of study and obtained a D degree. There, he participated in his first fanzine experience by creating Broute, which was an opportunity for him to meet several artists from the Toulouse region. After graduating, he briefly took a detour into industrial design before returning to his first love. He first drew for Éditions Petit à Petit, with whom he collaborated on three collectives, then on Paroles de taulards, under the benevolent eye of Corbeyran.

What happened next? The association of Ugarte's paintings and Espé's drawings for Le Territoire is as audacious as it is successful. This atypical album is a real gallery dedicated to the fantastic genre and remains a proof that comics are a medium open to all graphic possibilities. Again with his colleague Corbeyran, he followed up with a two-part series, mixing urban culture and detective stories in the streets of Bordeaux, Le 3e Œil, the adaptation of Marc Lévy's novel Sept jours pour une éternité, and, above all, the family saga in the Bordeaux vineyards: Châteaux Bordeaux, which quickly became a must in the genre. I

In 2015, he produced an album based on a scenario by Stéphane Piatzszek about the resistance of the Corsican people during the Second World War, L'Île des Justes. He lives in Ariège.