Amanda Michalopoulou: “Words Save”
12/02/2026
Thanasis Petrou
Thanasis Petrou was born in 1971 in Thessaloniki. He studied French Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and in Paris (Paris VII). He holds a Master’s degree in Sociolinguistics and a BA (Honours) in Comics from Middlesex University.
From 2005 to 2011, he worked for "9", the comics and science fiction supplement of the "Eleftherotypia" newspaper. Since 2014, he has been a collaborator of "Efimerida ton Syntakton" (The Editors' Newspaper). He has worked as a social researcher in university research programs, as a French teacher, translator, and musician. Since 2012, he has been teaching at the AKTO Art & Design College.
To date, 22 of his comic book titles have been published by various publishing houses (Ikaros, Patakis Publishers, Mikros Iros, Topos, Gnosis, Jemma Press, etc.), either in collaboration with scriptwriters (D. Vanellis, S. Derveniotis, K. Servi, P. Methenitis, T. Zafeiriadis, G. Palavos, etc.) or based on his own scripts. Many of his works have received distinctions and awards.
Program Overview
18 students from the 5th Grade of Kalyves Primary School are creating a polyphonic, modular comic based on oral testimonies they collected specifically for this educational program, aiming to narrate under-researched aspects of the local history of Kalyves. During the workshop, the children develop a script and visualize material derived from the interviews they conducted. Itsedín Prison, the Kalyves carnival of the 1960s, a grandfather serving as a lighthouse keeper at Cape Drapano, and a grandmother moving from Albania in the 1990s, all hold a prominent place in the collective comic currently being developed by the group
Suggested Bibliography
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Cyril Pedrosa, Three Shadows, Ilivaton Publications
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At the Battle of Marathon, Thanasis Petrou (Art), Katerina Servi (Script/Story)
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Ariol, Emmanuel Guibert (Text), Marc Boutavant (Illustration), Patakis Publishers
