Kabul Disco Vol.2: How I managed not to get addicted to Opium in Afghanistan

About Nicolas Wild

Born in 1977 in the Alsace region of France Nicolas Wild a former student of the famous illustration workshop at the Strasbourg School of Applied Arts created and co-wrote Le vu de Marc (Marcs Wish) together with fellow French illustrators Boulet and Lucie Albon. In this all-ages graphic novel he showed a hint of the dark comedic tone that had already been revealed in a series of comic strips published in 2000 under the title Le Bourreau (The Executioner). In 2005 Nicolas accepted a job offer in Afghanistan where he was given the task of drawing an adaptation of the Afghan constitution. In 2007 he launched a series of books titled Kabul Disco in which he recounted his experiences as an expat there. The discovery of the Persian world then led him to Iran an adventure he subsequently catalogued in the series So Mute was Zarathustra an eye-opening journey through current events in Iran. He is currently at work on Kabul Disco Book 3.