Biography Golo (Bayonne, France, 1948)
Golo is a leading cartoonist whose drawings have appeared regularly in the Cairo Times. He lives in Qurne, Egypt. His work includes comic adaptations of two novels by Albert Cossery, Mendiants et Orgueilleux (Casterman, 1991) and Les couleurs de l’infamie (Dargaud / Poisson Pilote, 2003). He published several comic books including Made in Taiwan (Les Éditions du Pigeonnier, 2001), and contributed to L’Association en Égypte (L’Association, 1998), and Comix 2000 (L’Association, 2000). He also illustrated Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? by Galal Amin (AUC Press, 2000).
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