Day of the Crisis

"DAY OF CRISIS" is largely based on the long-standing Greek economic crisis, and its title stems from a peculiarity of the Greek language, as the word "crisis" has many meanings. The specific meaning in each instance is determined by the context and surrounding words, without this being absolute, as the word, consciously or unconsciously on the part of the author, takes on a double meaning and can be interpreted by the reader in various ways.

When we invited Greek comic book creators to participate in this collection, we deliberately chose not to "guide" them as to what interpretation we wanted them to give to "Day of Crisis." However, it is a given that the majority of the participating artists experienced the economic crisis and were confronted with all the ensuing
crises that it engendered.

All the works in this volume were published in the "Journalists' Newspaper," the only cooperative daily Greek newspaper, from April 2014 to June 2015, in the weekly comic insert "Kare Kare," now the only supplement with (and about) comics in the Greek press.

The majority of the country's active comic book creators at the time took part, which gives this collection the character of a record and chronicle of the Greek comic book scene of that period.

Participants: Dimitris Vanellis - Thanasis Petrou, Dimosthenis Papamarkos - Giorgos Gousis, Kostis Kyriakakis, Petros Christoulias, Soloup, Grigoris Santorinios - Vangelis Matziris, Christos Stamboulis, Tasos Zafeiradis, Tasos Maragkos (Tasmar), Gabriel Pagonis, Spyros Derveniotis, Tasos Anastasiou, Petros Zervos, Vasilis Gogtsilas, Ektoras, Panagiotis Pantazis (Pan Pan), Christos Dimitriou, Dimitris Kamenos, Kostis Tzortzakakis, Vera Kartalou - Thomas Valliatanos, Tomek, George Melissaropoulos, Alexander Schismenos, Thanasis Psarros, Panagiotis Mitsobonos, Ilias Tampakeas, Alexia Othonaiou, Tasos Papaioannou, Antonis Vavagiannis, Dimitris Vitalis, Dimitris Pagonas, Thodoris Bargiotas, Pavlos Pavlidis, Sofia Spyriadou, Nasos Vasilakis, Angeliki Salamaliki, Valia Kapada, Panos Zacharis, Vangelis Papavasiliou, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Maro Kalogeri - Lila Kalogeri, Stavros Kioutsoukis, Thanasis Petropoulos, Nikolas Stefadouros, Alexia Lougiaki, Giannis Texis, Apostolos Ioannou, Danae Kilaidonis, Alekos Papadatos, Malk

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