Benoît Ers was born in Liège, Belgium. He spent part of his childhood in Ivory Coast because of his father's work, and eventually settled in Sussy-en-Brie, France. He enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Epinal after winning a scholarship at the Angoulême Comics Festival. He dropped out of school after six months, however, and returned to Liège to become an independent artist. He became the assistant of Olivier Saive and was an illustrator for the magazine of the Belgian federation of underwater research and activity.
