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Born in 1971, Nicolas Vadot spent his childhood in France and in Belgium. He studied visual communication at the Ecole de Recherches Graphiques (ERG) in Brussels and graduated from the degree course in 1993. After sporadic publications in various small newspapers, his first cartoon was published in the weekly Belgian magazine Le Vif/L’Express on December 1993. He soon became the official political cartoonist for the magazine and a selection of his work was published in 1998 in a book under the title of Dans Le Vif du Sujet. In 1999 the editor of Le Vif/L’Express entrusted him with his own page, La Semaine de Vadot (Vadot’s Week), in which he illustrates the week’s national and international political events. From 2004 until 2007, he was the regular cartoonist for Cash Magazine. He now works for the daily financial newspaper L’Echo, in which he publishes everyday.

Nicolas has also published several graphic novels. In 1994 he took part in the production of an album entitled 31 Place de Brouckère which is a collection of short-strip graphic novel stories. In 2001, in collaboration with film critic O. Guéret, he created the Gerry Geronimo trilogy (Norbert l’Imaginaire), followed, in 2006 by 80 Days. In November 2007, release of The George W. Bush Years, a book of 190 political cartoons on the Bush presidency.

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