3. Autonomy
AUTONOMY is the third chapter of the comic We Want Everything based on the book of the same name by Nanni Ballerini. Beginning this chapter we briefly see the struggles and strikes all the previous days before that Thursday, 29 May (a day narrated in the previous chapter, THE STRUGGLE.)... More detail
Sebastian
This work is consisted of two paintings. The left one is based on the work St. Sebastian (1480) by Andrea Mantegna -while the other is based on the landscape of Gaza (in Palestine). In the first painting at the left the human figure of the saint is replaced with a mannequin. At the background... More detail
Altai -Colored
This is a series of colored illustrations for the book Altai by Wu Ming. These images were based on the sketches I had made several years before (and you can see them here, along with more details about the book). There are two versions of each image, the initial result of the coloring process... More detail
for a breath of freedom
The "for a breath of freedom" was initially written in the autumn of 2014, during hunger strike of N. Romanos and was completed about a year later (early October 2015). It is evident that the struggle of Romanos, alongside with the prisoners’ hunger strike in the spring of ‘15 played a key role in... More detail
The death of William George Allum
This comic was inspired by the poems of a greek poet Nikos Kavvadias, and especially the two poems called "William George Allum" and "Marabu". Unfortunately i haven't found any english translations of these two poems (you can find some other translations in this link). I will try and give a... More detail
Revolution Blues
This painting was designed at the same period with the Hunt and shares with it some same concepts and symbols... There is a huge reference to the works with mannequins of several mostly surrealist painters (and especially the ones of Nikos... More detail
Size
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... More detail
Rider's song
This comic is an interpretation of one of Federico Garcia Lorca's poems with the name Rider's song (or Horseman's song -Canción del jinete). The original poem is the following: Córdoba. Lejana y sola.Jaca negra, luna grande,aceitunas en mi alforja.Aunque sepa los caminos,yo nunca llegaré a... More detail
The Slave Ship
This work is a reproduction of the painting The Slave Ship, by J.W. Turner (1840) (you can read more about the original painting here). As I haven't seen this particular painting live, I relied on photos I found on the internet in order to complete this copy. Unfortunately there were many... More detail
Ano Syros
This is one of the landscapes I made using a pseudocubic technic. I was inspired by the view of the village Ano Syros in the island Syros of Cyclades (Greece), which is highly geometrical. Of course, this is no exact representation of the view. {gallery}paintings/landscapes/ano-syros{/gallery} More detail
The Hunt
Among the themes (or influences) behind this painting one could find chess, paintings with mannequins (like the works of G. De Chirico or N. Engonopoulos), the painting Garden of Earthly Delights (by Hieronymus Bosch), prisons, class struggle, demonstrations, graffiti and slogans on... More detail
Ellie and the monster
These are some illustrations i made for a child book (by George Gouzounis) that was published in Australia by the Greek Community. The outline of this short story goes like this: A young girl (Ellie) returns home one day from school and finds a small monster in her room. However she doesn't... More detail
Let us Describe
This short comic is based on the short poem Let us Describe by Gertrude Stein. This poem is one of the most descriptive ones (even though it ends with a more stein-ish manner). The poem's text is the following :   Let us describe how they went. It was a very windy night and the... More detail
Journey in the sky
This is a comic about young Leonardo da Vinci and his struggle to create a flying machine and fly. The story is based on an earlier short novel which was divided into two parts: one with an interior monologue (the thoughts of Leonardo) and one with a more “objective” narrative technique completing... More detail
Study Yellow Blue
A study playing with forms and four colors. This painting has a similar approach with the one called Study in Pink. Some dark outlines at the upper segment of the painting were not photographed correctly. I have included a picture in the gallery that shows the procedure i followed making this... More detail
Van Gogh Copies
Copies of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. The paintings are La méridienne, also known as La sieste, d'aprés Millet was painted from December 1889 - January 1890 (info http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/1389660699/), Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889) (info... More detail
Umberto Eco
A caricature of the Italian writer Umberto Eco. In the gallery below you can see a realistic portrait (of him at a younger age), fast drafts, more finished sketches and the final colored image.    The final image was published in high resolution in my patreon... More detail
Italo Calvino
A caricature of the writer Italo Calvino. In the gallery below you can see a realistic portrait, fast drafts (I had a hard time reaching a satisfying result), more finished sketches and the final colored image.   The final image was published in high resolution in my patreon... More detail
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"My Lord,

you ask for my sketches as a friend

but you will use them

as a King"

from my new comic "Leonardo: The dream and the Nightmare" (temporary title)

  • 1. The North

    "The North" is the first chapter of the comic "We want everything" based on the book of the same name by Nani Ballestrini. The comic does not follow the book literally: Here the first chapter does not correspond to the book's homonymous chapter, but it is a summary of the chapters "South" and... More detail
    1. The North
  • 2. The Struggle

    The Struggle is the second chapter of the comic We Want Everything based on the book of the same name by Nanni Ballerini (you can see the first chapter, the North, here). In this chapter we watch the first days of the hero in FIAT, his fierce relationship with the hierarchy (foremen,... More detail
    2. The Struggle
  • 3. Autonomy

    AUTONOMY is the third chapter of the comic We Want Everything based on the book of the same name by Nanni Ballerini. Beginning this chapter we briefly see the struggles and strikes all the previous days before that Thursday, 29 May (a day narrated in the previous chapter, THE STRUGGLE.)... More detail
    3. Autonomy
  • 4. The Assembly

    THE ASSEMBLY is the forth chapter of the comic We want everything based on the book by Nani Ballestrini. In this chapter, we see the assembly (assemblea) of FIAT workers and ​​university students at the weekend and briefly the events before the big demonstration on July 3, 1969 (which will... More detail
    4. The Assembly
  • 5. Rebellion

    REBELLION is the fifth and final chapter (without PROLOGUE and EPILOGUE) of the comic We want everything based on the book of the same name by Nani Ballerini. This chapter, as in the book, tracks the events in Turin on July 3 of '69, in what became known as the Battle of Corso Traiano (la... More detail
    5. Rebellion
  • Epilogue

    A 7th page epilogue of the comic We Want Everything, based on the book with the same name by N. Balestrini. This epilogue tries to summarize what succeeded the events in the comic and resulted in the movement of Autonomia. {gallery}comics/epilogos{/gallery} More detail
    Epilogue
  • Prologue: Albert's story

    This short story comes from Linhart Robert's book "L' ETABLI". Actually, it is the result of the combination of two separate stories of the book (relating to two separate individuals). As they describe in my opinion in a very vivid (but also brief) way the workers' lives both inside and outside... More detail
    Prologue: Albert's story

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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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