Greece

AthensCon 2017, Greece's biggest comics and pop culture convention, is opening its doors on Saturday at the former Tae-kwon-do stadium in Palaio Faliro, to the south of the capital.  The two day event is heavily influenced by worldwide Comic-Cons and...

The exhibition "Bridges: The European Language of the Comics" will open on Saturday, October 24, at the city of Larissa, central Greece, with the participation of young and acclaimed Greek and European artists at the Ouil Municipal Theatre. Larissa, candidate...

The French comics series Asterix the Gaul is pretty famous in Greece, both for adults and kids. People in charge for the Archaeological Museum of Volos came up with an interesting idea: to celebrate the 50th birthday of the...

One does not normally equate Ancient Greece with Ireland, but there is a small Moravian Church with a small garden in an even smaller village named Kilwarlin, where the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE has been honored. Basil Patras...

Sixty years ago, the French comic book hero Tin Tin, beloved by children around the world, celebrated Greek Easter alongside Greek actors.

"Meta" is not only a Greek word that is overused in technology; it's now also the word chosen by Mark Zuckerberg, in his attempt to rebrand Facebook's bruised image. The word is used in speaking about internet data ("metadata")...

By Ada Leivada Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China, the whole world is facing the ramifications of an unprecedented pandemic that will gravely influence the near future. In the last few weeks, when the virus has most...

Greek police removed minors from two cinemas screening the blockbuster movie "Joker" over the weekend. The newly-released film has an "R," or Restricted, rating for its violence and disturbing content. According to a spokesman for the Greek police, the interventions followed...

Over 2,000 Greek and refugee students in Livadia participated in a competition to express their personal idea of home, with 100 of them winning prizes. The competition "A Home Away from Home" that was meant to help improve attitudes towards...

The temples, cities and markets of ancient Greece could be the setting for the latest installment of the hugely popular Assassin's Creed video-game series, industry insiders are claiming. According to ComicBook.com, Greece has been rumored as a setting for the...

  Parole e Immagini / Λόγια και Εικόνες (Words & Images) is an exhibition set to visit seven different places all over Greece, to present the works of Yorgos Botsos, a Greek comic author and Giuseppe Palumbo, an Italian cartoonist, both...

A film production company called TerraMagma Pictures LLC based in Burbank, California, founded by Greeks Dimitrios Katsantonis and Steven Priovolos, is setting out to tell the important and little-known part of history detailing how comic books threatened Hitler's Nazi regime. Through the film Of...

Until recently the subject of the banning of comic books in Nazi Germany was very rarely discussed. However, a film production company called TerraMagma Pictures LLC based in Burbank, California and founded by Greeks Dimitrios Katsantonis and Steven Priovolos, is...

Comicdom Con, the annual three-day comics festival, will be held in Athens on April 15-17. Comicdom Con Athens has become a standard in the Greek comics community, providing a unique celebration not only for the people who love the 9th...

The controversial artwork of a blender full of female naked bodies will be removed from a 5th grade textbook after media uproar and parent complaints. The illustration is found on page 19 of a physics textbook under the section of...