International Short Animation Films (part4)

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Short Animation Films from all over the world

International Student Short Animation Films (part2)

Sabbionara Gate

Short Student Animation Films from all over the world

International Student Short Animation Films (part3)

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Short Student Animation Films from all over the world

International Short Animation Films (part5)

Sabbionara Gate

Short Animation Films from all over the world

International Student Short Animation Films (part4)

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Short Student Animation Films from all over the world

Storytelling

Aqueduct - Splantzia

Dimitra Valavani, Aggeliki Mpemplidaki, Nikos Mplazakis, Stella Rozaki, Despoina Tziaki

Man has always been awed by the mysteries of the universe. And in order to explain them so that he would be less afraid, invented stories and myths. And so in times when knowledge about the universe presented gaps, human imagination was there to cover them. Five storytellers unfold their stories and reveal the secrets of the sun and the moon! Follow them!

International Student Short Animation Films (part5)

Sabbionara Gate

Short Student Animation Films from all over the world

Cosmonaut

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

with Spiros Giannakopoulos & Polinikis Papoulias

Manos Grigoriou thinks his life is boring, alarm clock, office work, situations with numbers, paperwork, every day the same. His only fun is the voracious reading of science fiction books. Until Cosmodromio is published, a magazine will take him out of his everyday life and lead him to great emotions. The Cosmonaut is a book about small victories and daily feats. For the anxiety of creation, the pressure of writing, and the joy of the first publication. And finally, a story of self-searching against the background of famous science fiction books.

Artist Alley 2023

Katehaki Square

STAND 00
Chaniartoon

STAND 01
1. Νεφέλη Μαρματάκη/Neffos
2. Jimmy Chris Agarai
3. Σπύρος Δρακάτος/Spiros Drakatos
4. Dianna Kenedy
5. Ειρήνη Αγγελίδου/Eirini Aggelidou
6. Γιάννης Ρουμπούλιας/Gianni
7. Περικλής Κουλιφέτης/Periklis Koulifetis
8. Κωνσταντίνα Κουκούλα-Άννα Μπαντούνου - Konveekou-Nanabbi

STAND 02
1. Στηβ Στιβάκτης/Stiv Stivakits
2. Μαρία Όλια Ντακογιάννη
Maria Olia Ntakogianni
3. Γιώργος Γανίδης/Giorgos Ganidis
4. Βίβιαν Τερζοπούλου/Akane Comix
5. Κωστής Κυριακάκης/Kostis Kiriakakis
6. Δημήτρης Πανταζής/Dimitris Pantazis
7. Ιάσωνας Μπολιεράκης/Iason Bolierakis
8. Σουλτάνα Ιλωρίδου/Soultana Iloridou

STAND 03
1. Τζοάννα Πουπάκη/Joanna Poupaki
2. Φίλιππος Ντεγίδης/Degphilip
3. Δανιήλ Γουδέλης/Daniel Goudelis
4. Βαγγέλης Μανούσακας/Vaggelis Manousakas
5. Χρήστος Καρακίτσος/Christos Karakitsos
6. Νικόλας Στεφαδούρος/Nikolas Stefadouros
7. Tasmar
8. Μάνος Κοτσιφάκης/Manos Kotsifakis

STAND 04
1. Κατερίνα Ντίνα/Katerina Ntina
2. Ζωή Νικολέτα Καραδημητρίου
Pencialki Paper Tales
3. Θανάστης Πετρόπουλος/Thanasis Petropoulos
4. Αντώνης Βαβαγιάννης/Antonis Vavagiannis
5-6. Σταύρος Κιουτσιούκης/Stavros Kioutsioukis
7. Κωνσταντίνος Φανταουσάκης/Konstantinos Fantaousakis
8. Louise Truc

STAND 05
1. Silvia Bessero
2. Alessia Gilli
3. Κώστας Δρακούλης/AOUA
4. Βασίλης Γέρκου/Vasilis Gerkou
5. Μάνος Λαγουβάρδος/Manos Lagouvardos
6. Ειρήνη Σκούρα/Eirini Skoura
7. Κανέλλος Cob/Kanellos Cob
8. Ανέστης Μαυρομάτης Παρασίδης / Αnestis Mavromatis Parasidis

STAND 06
1. Ιωσήφ Φαντέλ/Josef Fadel
2. Νίκος Καμπασελέ/Nikos Kabasele
3. Παναγιώτης Λιάκος/Panagiotis Liakos
4. Βασίλης Πατσουράκης/Vasilia Patsourakis
5. Έλλη Κικίδη/Elli Kikidi
6. Αριάδνη Τζουνάκου/Ariadni Tzounakou
7. Κάθυ Τσουρλάκη/Lilyrain
8. Jo

STAND 07
1. Ιάκωβος Βάης/Iakovos Vais
2. Κώστας Ζυγούρης/Zgur
3. Μαίρη Καλαμπανίκα/Mairi Kalampanika
4. Νίκος Μπράτος/Nikos Bratos
5. Ονίτα Κουτσουμάνη/Onita K Art
6. Χρύσα Σακελλαροπούλου/Chrysa Sakel
7-8. Σταύρος Δάμος/Stavros Damos

STAND 08
1. Μάρκος Ευλογημένος/Blessed Zines
2. Φώτης Τσελεπατιώτης/Fotis Tselepatiotis
3. Παύλος Πιτούλιας/Pavlos Pitoulias
4. Δημήτρης Αβραμόπουλος/AVRAM
5. Loudmouse Crew
6. Γραβριήλ Νύκταρης/Planitlla
7. Βαγγέλης Χατζιδάκης/Vangelis «Mr Phat» Chatzidakis
8. Διονυσία Δεδούση/Dionisia Dedousi

STAND 09
Εκδόσεις Μικρός Ήρως

STAND 10
Jemma Press

STAND 11
Comixadiko

STAND 12
ΜΑΜΟΥΘ KOMIΞ

STAND 13
Λέσχη Φίλων Κόμικ

Creating worlds for everyone

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

This masterclass aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in crowdfunding your comics. If you're an artist, writer, publisher, or in the comics industry in general, this masterclass gives you a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of successful financing and how to apply them to the world of comics.

by Loudmouse Crew

Luciano Gatto Presentation

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

The official presentation of the exhibition dedicated to the 60 years of artistic career of the great Venetian comic book creator with Disney heroes, in the presence of the artist himself. Luciano Gatto will present the exhibition, which he curated especially for his Greek fans who will be in Chania for the 7th Chaniartoon. At the same time, he will talk to the audience and answer their questions. Giorgos Zoitas will moderate the discussion, while the interpretation from Italian will be done live by Yannis Iatrou, who oversaw the exhibition transfer from the WOW Museum to Milan, Italy. At the end of the discussion, the great Italian comics designer will sign for those who wish collector's copies of the original sketch with the scent of... Crete, which he created especially for the event and will be available in a limited number of copies during the days of the event.

Return of the Storm

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Presentation of Nikos Kampasele’s new comic. It is a sci-fi comic, set in an ominous, Byzantine-style, alternative future.

with Nikos Kabasele

The treasure of Vagia

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

A group of children spends their summer holidays in Aegina. There they are visited by a family friend from France who works as a psychiatrist’s assistant in Paris. Her mission is to discover some evidence repeated by a German patient who suffers from amnesia after the explosion of a mine he stepped on in Aegina during World War II. Scattered words that children try to put together to make sense. Until they visit the Chaldaios family in Vagia, whose house Hans lived in during the war. There they learn that Hans has stolen gold pounds from the family. Thus begins the search for a lost treasure, which leads the children to the days of the German occupation and an unforgettable adventure...

with Kanellos Cob & Manolis Xatzipanagiotou

Tasmar – Live Drawing Sessions

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

The truth is that the job of cartoonist/comic creator is very lonely. He spends endless hours at the drawing board creating yet more images and pages. That is why when he is given the opportunity to present to the public the way he works, it is something that makes him happy. So, Tasmar will draw live in the festival of Chaniartoon. The projects that will be created will be given among the attendees of the live.

Intermediality, interaction and experimentation in comics

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Through the presentation of the hybrid comic “SENSTATION, a journey of emotions”, an approach to comics that combines architecture, psychology and narrative play will be discussed.

By Joanna Poupaki, Santianna Stathopoulou, Alexandra Tamiolaki

Valerio Held presentation and discussion with the artist

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Valerio Held is one of the most important contemporary comic book designers of Disney heroes. Taking his first steps as Luciano Gatto's apprentice, inking his stories and those of Romano Scarpa, he developed a personal style inspired by the genre's classics and continues to draw stories for the Italian magazine Topolino to this day.

The New Cook Book

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

The presentation of the project "The New Cook Book" by its creator, Yiannis Stamatiou, includes viewing the pages of the e-book and flipping through them from the first to the last chapter. The artist participates in the flow of changes in images and sounds and interacts with the work with additional texts and expressions.

by Yiannis Stamatiou

Everything you wanted to know about the profession of the cartoonist and are embarrassed to ask

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

A presentation of professional (de)orientation by Ilias Tabakeas.
There you will learn…
…Sketch*; What is this
and what does it have to do with the applied arts?
…what jobs can a Cartoonist* do?
…what Sketch Artist* specialties are there?
…when will the Cartoonists be replaced*
by AI Robot?
…What does one need & what does one not need to become a Cartoonist*?
...how does one become a Cartoonist*?
...end: what are the asterisks for?
At the end there can be a discussion and Ilias can answer any questions you want.

Presentation of Francesca Ghermandi

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Francesca Ghermandi was born in Bologna in 1964. Her comic stories and illustrations have been published in Italian and foreign magazines since the mid-eighties such as: "Frigidaire", "Echo des Savanes", "Linus", "Zero Zero" , "Il Manifesto", "La Repubblica", "Internazionale" etc.. She has been awarded as the best writer at the Lucca Comics Festival, while she has created many comics such as Pasticca, Einaudi, The Wipeout, Fantagraphics Books, Hiawata Pete, Grenuord, Swamp Chronicles, Coconino Press.

with Francesca Ghermandi and Yiannis Mihailidis

The semiotics of comics

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Presentation of the Book "The semiotics of comics"

with Daniele Barbieri, Giannis Koukoulas, Giannis Mihailidis, Lefteris Stavrianos

The semiotics of comics is an understudied field. This book lays the groundwork for inquiry, starting with the classic notions of utterance and narrative, to include the particular meaning of storytelling through comics. It does so through the analogies and juxtapositions that arise from the comparison with cinema and the novel. It then investigates the graphic characteristics of comics in the peculiar interplay that develops between image and writing. It concludes with the creation of rhythm, the management of the reader’s attention, and the techniques of directing narrative tensions, which may be familiar to all narrative genres but nevertheless prove to be different in each case. Specialists―attempts to deal in a simple way with particularly complex problems by contrasting a theory of the comic text with existing theories of cinema, the novel, and the poetic text.

Daniele Barbieri is one of the most influential comics scholars in Italy. He studied philosophy and semiotics with Professor Umberto Eco. As a semiotician, his subject is visual communication, but he also deals with poetry and music. Around these topics, he has so far published 22 books and written more than 400 articles. He teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, the ISIA University of Urbino and the University of San Marino. His works have been translated into English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Sketch Gaming

Katehaki Square

Antonis Vavagiannis, Nikos Kampasele, Stavros Kioutsiukis and Thanasis Petropoulos, in a special matchup game, live in Katehaki Square!

Tasmar – Live Drawing Sessions

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

The truth is that the job of cartoonist/comic creator is very lonely. He spends endless hours at the drawing board creating yet more images and pages. That is why when he is given the opportunity to present to the public the way he works, it is something that makes him happy. So, Tasmar will draw live in the festival of Chaniartoon. The projects that will be created will be given among the attendees of the live.

“Open Spaces” - presentation

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

The Multimedia Laboratory of the Athens School of Fine Arts in collaboration with the TECHNO-LOGIA Hub present the exhibition “Open Spaces” with the participation of 10 students of ASKT, an exhibition included in the Chaniartoon Festival with the theme “Space”. The students create projects with which they compose new potential spaces, open to intervention and interpretation and form “Open Spaces” of coexistence and common action.

Curation: Taxiarchis Diamantopoulos, Stavroula Zoi, Yiannis Koukoulas

Participating Students: Nikos Athanasakis, Dioni Diochnou , Lefteris Kontopodis, Katerina Korre, Dimitris Mantadakis, Triantafyllia Ntouroupi, Eirini Panagiotopoulou, , Artemis Sartzetaki, Giannis Stamatiou, Giorgos Tsiakos

“Heavy Legacy” or Variations and Fugue on a Poem by G. Seferis

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

7 different copies of the same story with a common script and design but different colors, font, page size, direction, all so that each copy is a different version of the story and a different reading experience..

by Periklis Koulifetis

Disney comics and political correctness

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

On the occasion of the recent decision by the multinational giant, The Walt Disney Company, to suspend, among other things, the republishing of some of the stories of the legendary comic creator Don Rosa (The Life And State Of Scrooge McDuck) as part of the renewal of its inclusion policies and diversity, we look at the impact of political correctness on Art and comics – with a particular interest in the production of stories featuring Disney characters.

Presentation of Joyce Farmer

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

The American comic creator with the rich, pioneering, long and important career in the field of comics, talks about everything. Joyce will be happy to discuss any controversial issues after or during her talk.

with Joyce Farmer & Ilias Tabakeas

100 years Disney - The Quiz!

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Do you think that you know everything about Disney? We await you in an anniversary quiz dedicated to 100 years of magic! Contest participants will have the chance to win unique original designs from international guests Luciano Gatto and Valerio Held!

70 Years Mikros Iros (Album)

Theatre Mikis Theodorakis

Rarely has a magazine left such a mark on the hearts and souls of its readers as Mikros Iros, written by Stelios Anemodouras from 1953 to 1968 under the pseudonym «Thanos Astritis» and illustrated with his sketches by Byron Aptosoglou. This anniversary album of 228 pages is the most comprehensive study of the Little Hero phenomenon with rare and unpublished but also valuable information. In addition, it includes 45 new sketches by Greek artists that will be presented in the exhibition for the 70th anniversary, but also an unpublished true story of Thanos Astritis in drawings by Vassilis Goggilas, which is the starting point of this huge journey called Mikros Heros.

with Leokratis Anemodouras, Yiannis Koukoulas, Panagiotis Orfanidis and Manolis Piblis