Olivier Voutch grew up in the Vosges region of France and resides in Paris. His first contact with comics was in his parents' library where he discovered de Testu, Otto Soglow, Saul Steinberg, and Maurice Henry. After a series of misadventures involving unfortunate timing and one misunderstanding, Voutch became a designer in a PR agency where he spent 15 years, during which time he became cochampion of the world in boomerang throwing. In 1995, Voutch began cartooning and published his first works in popular French magazines. Two years later, Voutch's first cartoon collection was published.