After working in the comic book field, Tignous began doing cartoons for L'Idiot International, La Grosse Bertha, and L'Événement du jeudi.

He was also a contributor to the weekly news magazine Marianne and the monthly publication Fluide Glacial.

His work features in a 2015 cooperative card game, Les Poilus (The Grizzled), about the tragic and solitary experience of French soldiers in the trenches of the Great War.

[6] Tignous was a member of Cartoonists for Peace as well as the Press Judiciare, an association of French journalists covering the legal system.

The Franco-Lebanese jazz trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf played during a ceremony in Tignous's honour held in the great hall of the municipality of Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis.