Nicolas Vadot was born on 17 June 1971 in Carshalton (UK). He holds triple nationality: French, British and Australian.
He has been the regular cartoonist for *Le Vif* since 1993 and for *L’Echo* since 2008. He has also been drawing live for Arte’s *28 Minutes Inter* since 2023. Between 2022 and 2024, he appeared on ‘Le parti-pris des dessinateurs’ with Pierre Kroll, every other Monday morning on La Première (RTBF). Between 2020 and 2022, he was a panellist on ‘Les visiteurs du Soir’ on the Belgian news channel LN24, as well as on ‘Objectif Élysée’ during the 2022 French presidential campaign, and then on ‘Bonsoir le débat’ in 2024–25, again on LN24. He appears regularly on France 24 on the programme “Une semaine dans le monde”, where he presents the weekly cartoons by his colleagues at Cartooning for Peace, of which he is an active member and served as vice-president between 2013 and 2017. Every year, he publishes collections of his best cartoons. He is also a comic book author and has published eight volumes: *Norbert l’Imaginaire* (three volumes), *80 Jours*, *Neuf Mois*, *Maudit Mardi* (two volumes) and the first volume of *Madame Ronchard*.
