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!