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This comic was designed to participate in a conference about phycic health and madness, organised by a mental health activist group Initiative for a Diverse Movement in Mental Health, in 3 & 4 of March 2023.

The central themes of the comic are incarceration and obligation of treatment. An initial inspitation was the tragic deaths of people dying from fire while being chained on beds and abandoned inside mental institutes. Inside the comic there are several references to old greek rock songs, such as "Για το καλό μου" (For my own good), "Η πρώτη φορά" (The first time) and "Η ελευθερία δε νικιέται" (Freedom cannot be defeated). There is also an indirect reference on how most states chose to deal with the covid crisis.

The visual style follows my older comic "For a breath of freedom".

The translation of the comic was made by Ntina Poursanidou.

 

 

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Older abstract studies. In order of appearance:

Target 

The main inspiration for this painting was the murder of a young student (Alexis Grigoropoulos) by a policeman in Athens on December 2008, that began a huge wave of demonstrations against police brutality. This painting was exhibited along with many others at the React Festival in Syros.

Untitled (black)

This very simple painting was exhibited also at the React Festival in Syros. The limited use of colors (only three: black, silver and red) has, I suppose, a symbolic meaning.

Untitled (blue)

This is another experiment. I wanted to create a similar composition with the Composition (above) with the use of cold colors (blue, white, silver) and newspapers in the place of the yellow rectangles. I finished the painting with an expressionistic use of red.

Untitled (La revolution)

Again here, I find the same preoccupation with words and their meaning (in a much more spontaneous result). This painting must be considered mostly as an experiment.

Cross

This is the older work here (and it's been destroyed). All I have left is this photo. Its size was quite large (app. 1,5 x 1m) and was made with plastic color and newspapers on paper.

Oia

An abstract represenation of the village Oia in Santorini and its famous sunset (Private Collection).

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Sketches I made with antifascist (and anti-nazi) topic. Most of them deal with the nazist party Golden Dawn. 

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This is a small medieval fairytale about a lost kingdom, kings and dragons, and people that finally wake up...
It is made with flash and it's based on a 4pages comic of 2010
You can see the comic in the gallery below (or read more about it here)

Festivals

Once Upon a Time was presented at the Animasyros 6.0 festival (2013) and in the two day event "Tribute to Epic Fantasy: Greek Creators", by the independent movie projection area Cinemarian (Athens, march 2015)

 

See the animation here (swf)

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This is an animation where a young man is forced to work more and more by a gigantic figure until at one point he realizes there is something peculiar at the difference of their size.

Festivals

Size was chosen to be presented (amongst other digital works) at the Video Art Festival in Athens, 18-20 May 2012 and at the Antifascist Festival in Syros, 7-11 June 2012. It was also presented (and participated in the contest area) at the Animasyros 5.0 Festival in Syros (Sept. 2012) and at as part of the animasyros collection it was also presented at the Moving Silence festival in Athens (spring 2013) at the Days of Rethymno festival (2013) at the Animafest festival (Cyprus 2013) and at the 8th Festival of Audiovisual Arts in Corfu (May 2014)

 

See the animation here (swf)

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This is a single page story for a young boy living in a foreign country.

I designed it in order to sent it to a comic contest called "European Union and citizenship" (2008-2009).

The texts are in greek. I used watercolors for coloring.

Citizenship was exhibited at the Antifascist Festival in Syros, 7-11 June 2012.

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This is a 4pages story for a guy trying to find out what has happened to a "Stranger" that went missing. I sent this story to the competition "Strangers in the same city"of the newspaper "To Pontiki" (spring 2010). The story (along with the story The Train) was given a certificate of distinction and was exhibited with all the other awards.

The texts are in greek.

"The Stranger" was exhibited at the Antifascist Festival in Syros, 7-11 June 2012.

Underneath the gallery of this comic's pictures I have added an online collection of some of my short comics, including: Rear Window, The Train, The Stranger, Let Us Describe, Dreamcatcher I and II, and Once Upon a Time.

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This is a 4pages story for a guy leaving his country and embarking on a strange train. I sent this story to the competition "Strangers in the same city"of the newspaper "To Pontiki" (spring 2010). The story (along with the story The Stranger) was given a certificate of distinction and was exhibited with all the other awards.

The texts are in greek.

"The Train" was exhibited at the Antifascist Festival in Syros, 7-11 June 2012.

Underneath the gallery of this comic's pictures I have added an online collection of some of my short comics, including: Rear Window, The Train, The Stranger, Let Us Describe, Dreamcatcher I and II, and Once Upon a Time.

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We Want Everything

the publications of colleagues, Nov. 2021

Summer of 1969, Italy. A year after May '68, FIAT workers began a dynamic and unmediated strike against their powerful boss. Their struggle marked the beginning of a decade of workers' and students' mobilizations and the rise of the Autonomy movement. It was characterized by many as the last invasion of the working class into the sky. Last ... let's hope until the next one ...

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