Nicolas Vadot was born on June 17th 1971 in Carshalton (UK) to a French father and an English mother.

He spent his childhood in France, moving to Belgium at the age of 17 where he

completed his last year of high school at the French School of Brussels. He then

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 10th

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,

a Semaine de Vadot (Vadot’s Week), in which he illustrates the week's national

and international political events. From 2004 until 2007 he also was the regular cartoonist for Cash Magazine, a Belgian finance magazine.

As a parallel activity to his regular press-cartoons, Nicolas Vadot has published several graphic novels.

In 1994 he and twelve other young graduates produced of an album entitled 31 Place de Brouckère which is a collection of hort-strip graphic novel stories all featuring Brussels’ famous luxury hotel Le Métropole.

In 1995 he undertook the project of an entire album, never published, The Depressor, which ultimately became the basis for Gerry Geronimo. The proposed album was turned down by all the publishers he approached at that time.