Exhibitions

Daniele Brolli was born in Rimini in 1959. A writer, painter, comics artist and screenwriter, he is the moving force in the Italian comics scene and has participated in the creation of many magazines and publishing houses.

Elena Navrozidou studied fine arts and scene setting in France and holds a PhD at the University of Aegean. Since 1985, she has organized a lot of exhibitions (Paris, Athens, Kea, Thessaloniki, and Beijing). Her comics have been published in Para Pente and Babel.

Kostas Maniatopoulos was born in Athens. A comics artist, he has publishes since 1989 in various magazines and fanzines (self-publications). He is the co-founder of “Braz-ill” and “To Mouni Mou Mesa”. He has organized a lot of solo exhibitions.

As in previous editions, the main body of the festival is a group exhibition of Greek comic designers who create original stories on the theme of the festival. This year 27 known and younger artists are involved:

Spiros Derveniotis was born in Athens in 1969. Since his first appearance in 1986, he has been working non-stop as a political cartoonist and comics creator for a variety of local papers and magazines.

Andreas Karaoulanis comes from Computer Science studies and Animation. His current work deals with interactive media design and animation. He has present his work in Museum Of London, Moscow, Paris and in various Galleries and spaces around Europe.

Lives in Athens.He started working as a book illustrator and afterwards he involved with sculpture and animation. He loves sailing and expensive golden pocket watches. He grew up solving crosswords.

Born in 1968 in Athens,Greece. Live and work in Athens.  Former entrepreneur in the club/restaurant business of Athenian nightlife. I create aesthetically austere collages as a critique to contemporary Greek sociopathy.

Vasilis Lolos started working on comics more then a decade ago in Greece, soon made the jump to the American comic industry where he worked for almost all the major comicbook companies .

Katerina Barampouti is an artist, performer and musician/singer, born in Greece. She lives and works in London, UK. She studied at the: Goldsmiths University of London (MA), Universidad de Barcelona and Athens School of Fine Arts (BA).

Angelos Frantzis was born in Athens in 1970. He studied film direction at INSAS in Brussels. He has made 4 short and 3 feature films (Polaroid, A dog’s dream, In the woods). His films have been screened and won awards at many international film festivals.

Athens-born, he is heavily involved with graphics, comics and illustrations. Work of his has been published in various magazines, books, fanzines and webzines. He has occasionally worked in advertising, as well as in the artistic design and production of printed material.