Golo
Guy Nadaud, known as Golo , was born in Bayonne in 1948. He began his artistic career in 1973 as an illustrator for the music magazine Best. In the same year he visited Egypt for the first time, fell in love with Cairo, and has lived there for many years beginning in the 1990s. A prolific cartoonist and comic-book creator, Golo has contributed to many French and Egyptian periodicals, among them Hara-Kiri , Charlie Hebdo , Libération , Cairo Times, L'Association (Cairo), and Charlie Mensuel ....See more
Guy Nadaud, known as Golo , was born in Bayonne in 1948. He began his artistic career in 1973 as an illustrator for the music magazine Best. In the same year he visited Egypt for the first time, fell in love with Cairo, and has lived there for many years beginning in the 1990s. A prolific cartoonist and comic-book creator, Golo has contributed to many French and Egyptian periodicals, among them Hara-Kiri , Charlie Hebdo , Libération , Cairo Times, L'Association (Cairo), and Charlie Mensuel . In the 1980s his regular collaborator was the late Frank Reichert ("Frank"). His countless comic albums include adaptations of Albert Cossery, travelogues on Taiwan, and a two-volume graphic biography of the Romanian revolutionary vagabond Panaït Istrati. See less