Aristotle

Alecos Papadatos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1959. After pursuing economics studies in his home country, he moved to France, where he changed career directions entirely in order to devote himself to animation. In 1990 he moved back to Greece with his wife and collaborator, Annie Di Donna, where they founded the production studio, Spicy Toons, active throughout Europe. In 2003, he began work on the "Logicomix" graphic novel, published initially in 2008 by Bloomsbury. Following the great success of that project, he published "Democracy," also with Bloomsbury, in 2015. He works regularly for several publishers in various countries, and hosts workshops and masterclasses in Greece, Turkey, Poland, France, and the United Kingdom. In 2022 Dargaud Benelux published "Aristotle," his and Tassos Apostolidis' biography of the great philosopher (2023 for the English-language version, published digitally by Europe Comics).

Tassos Apostolidis was born in 1947 in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he studied mathematics before devoting 42 years of his life to teaching at the high-school level. His body of work includes columns and humor pieces published through the end of the 1990s in newspapers and magazines. He has written books and numerous scripts for graphic novels based on works of classical Greek literature by figures such as Aristophanes, Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aesop. He has also written plays and stand-up comedy shows. Tassos is a member of several writers' organizations and regularly hosts workshops, classes, and conferences on subjects such as drawing, caricature, and comics. In 2022, with Alecos Papadatos, he released "Aristotle," a biography of the great philosopher published by Dargaud Benelux (2023 for the English-language edition, published digitally by Europe Comics).