cartoonology

2011-11-17T11:46:00.001+02:00

Dear friends. This blog will be stopped in a while.
You may visit www.alecos.eu for Aleco's news and info.
Thank you :-)

2011-10-01T13:58:00.001+03:00

Dear friends, my www.alecos.eu website will be updated by the end of October 2011 with new design, project news and new portfolio material. Following this, a new blog will be set up. This blog will be stopped. Thank you for your kind messages and your patience. Alecos

Mini doodles for "Juste Debout"

2011-02-21T16:15:00.009+02:00

Breakdance &HipHop Dance Contest,

Sporting, Athens Feb19, 2011

"Democracy", graphic novel.

2010-08-07T11:19:00.003+03:00

This epic graphic novel written by Alecos Papadatos and Abraham Kawa and illustrated by Alecos Papadatos, takes a new, different approach to tales of classical Greece by telling the story of the birth of Athenian democracy in the 6th century BC.
This is a vibrant, living, colorful world of sacred religious mysteries, dark intrigue and bloody confrontation, ending in a great cultural invention.
It’s set in a world where life, love and death are a tangled skein at the hands of indifferent gods speaking, sometimes speaking through the mouths of mortals, of ambitious men circling the halls of power, and of the people who are troubled, duped, hurt, pressed and inspired into fighting for something greater than themselves.
At the center of the story is Leander, an invented character, a metaphor of the Athenian ‘Everyman’.
The life of Leander is a perilous journey from innocence to self-awareness, both as a human being and a citizen.
Born in Athens, at the time between the tyrannical regime of Peisistratus and the rise of the early democratic state of Cleisthenes, he grows up in an era of violent turmoil, marked by civil strife, coup d’ etats and conspiracies.
Raised as a son of prosperous merchants, he ends up destitute, is persecuted and, eventually, banished.
Nurturing his talent as a vase painter while in exile, Leander has his spirit and mettle tested through his relationships with the patron goddess of his lost city, Athena, and the ambivalent, scheming figure of Cleisthenes, the mystery man who promises to restore the city’s people to glory and prosperity.
A young man trying to find his own voice in a cacophony of political uproar, Leander is torn between his selfish need for vengeance and his search for an ideal to believe in.
The story’s resolution involves the birth of democracy as a political system, and the fulfillment of Leander’s ambition of real citizenship.
It is at the same time a song to democracy, and a story of political realism, showing how this greatest of civic inventions came about both by the cunning, courage and willful action of a group of talented men, but also out of chance, circumstance and historical contingency.

Website "openculture".

2010-08-07T10:56:00.000+03:00

Yum!

Άινσταϊν, η άλλη Σχετικότητα

2010-04-23T09:13:00.000+03:00

Άινσταϊν, η άλλη Σχετικότητα
Αρθρο του Απόστολου Δοξιάδη στην ιστοσελίδα του "Θαλής και Φίλοι".

Νέες Κυκλοφορίες Από Τη Giganto Books, Στο Comicdom Con Athens 2010

2010-04-16T10:09:00.000+03:00

Νέες Κυκλοφορίες Από Τη Giganto Books, Στο Comicdom Con Athens 2010
ΝΕΑ ΚΙ ΩΡΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΚΟΜΙΞ, ΠΑΡΤΕ ΚΟΣΜΕ!

TRINKETS του Μιχάλη Διαλυνά – Κυκλοφορεί από την Comicdom Press στις 16/4

2010-04-09T10:33:00.000+03:00

TRINKETS του Μιχάλη Διαλυνά – Κυκλοφορεί από την Comicdom Press στις 16/4

Pedagogy | The Graphic Narrative Project

2010-04-09T10:29:00.000+03:00

Pedagogy | The Graphic Narrative Project

AT THE DRIVE INK Από Τις Εκδόσεις Tilt Comics

2010-03-31T23:32:00.000+03:00

AT THE DRIVE INK Από Τις Εκδόσεις Tilt Comics
Παρουσίαση από την ιστοσελίδα της Comicdom Con.

Ως εδώ!

2010-03-29T11:01:00.000+03:00

Ως εδώ!
Αρθρο Ηλία Κανέλλη στο Protagon.gr

Μαθηματική αλήθεια και διλήμματα της ζωής

2010-03-28T19:21:00.001+03:00

Μαθηματική αλήθεια και διλήμματα της ζωής
Athens Review of Books, Απρίλιος 2010

Nice Sparta! Αρθρο Ηλία Κανέλλη.

2010-03-11T16:02:00.000+02:00

Nice Sparta!

Comicdom Con Workshop

2010-03-10T18:49:00.002+02:00

Ξανακοιτώντας τα "Panel Transitions" μέσα από το Logicomix, ανακαλύπτει κανείς πολλά νέα στοιχεία για τη "θεωρία" του Mc Cloud αλλά και την αφηγηματική μαστοριά του Απόστολου Δοξιάδη.

ΣΤΑ ΒΑΡΕΑ/ΑΝΘΥΓΙΕΙΝΑ ΤΩΡΑ!

2010-03-09T18:06:00.001+02:00

Κακοί φανατικοί θρησκευόμενοι εναντίον καλών, ειλικρινών, τιμίων, νομοταγών, δημοκρατικών, ελευθέρων πολιτών! http://xrl.in/4qo2

It's all Greek to You

2010-03-04T21:48:00.003+02:00

Μάρτιος 2010: Ο Αλέκος θα είναι μέλος στην "ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΔΙΕΘΝΟΥΣ ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΙΚΟΥ ΤΜΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΤΑΙΝΙΩΝ ANIMATION ΜΙΚΡΟΥ ΜΗΚΟΥΣ" μαζί με την Αντιγόνη Παρούση και τον Μιχάλη Αρφαρά. Πληροφορίες περί του Φεστιβάλ εδώ.

Στη διάρκεια του φεστιβάλ θα γίνουν και πολύ ενδιαφέρουσες προβολές - μην χάσετε την Lotte REINIGER και τον Paul DRIESSEN!

Financial Times: Cartoon on Claude Levi-Strauss.

2010-02-27T17:03:00.001+02:00

Enjoy!
:-)

cool blogging:

2010-02-20T12:38:00.002+02:00

http://alecospapadatos.tumblr.com/
try tumblr, you won't regret.

Cool comics site: "More than Superhumans"

2010-02-17T00:15:00.000+02:00

This website aims to provide you, the novice or casual reader of comics, with a clear and comprehensive guide to the books that are available to you, based on your tastes. In other words, if you’re new to comics, we’ll show you where to start. Then, as time goes on and you get more comfortable with the medium, we’ll show you how to expand your horizons.

Great cartoon site.

2010-02-16T11:09:00.001+02:00

Tomek, one of my favorite cartoonists is at last here. Enjoy. www.tomek.gr

Article :-)

2010-02-16T11:02:00.001+02:00

"This is the first graphic novel I have ever read and I was impressed. Against the odds, the authors and artists have brought a tough but fascinating subject to life. Logicomix provides a window on to an arcane and mind-blowing world of logic and surprising truths. It might just intrigue you enough to go and find out more."
By Marcus Chown, www.newhumanist.org.uk.

DoubleYou, doubleYou, doubleYou Dot Alecos Dot Eee You.

2010-02-15T20:28:00.002+02:00

Well, the site is up: www.alecos.eu

REVIEW OF THE DAY on logicomix, trez interesan!

2010-01-18T21:22:00.000+02:00

Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou, reviewed by Rain Taxi

DEAR GYROS - LOVERS: Click Me!

2010-01-11T09:09:00.001+02:00

Dedicated to Kostas - the best souvlakist in Plaka and maybe in the whole world. Died 3 years ago. His grand son keeps the torch.

WHY WE WRITE ON PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY:-)

2009-12-21T16:35:00.001+02:00

SELF-REFERENCE UNLIMITED LIMITED.

"goodreads" on logicomix

2009-11-24T12:03:00.002+02:00

Ενδιαφέρον - γιατί το βιβλίο άρεσε ή δεν άρεσε σε διαφορετικούς αναγνώστες: "goodreads".

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

2009-11-18T22:32:00.000+02:00

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

Welcome to Moody Radio

2009-11-16T08:45:00.001+02:00

Welcome to Moody Radio

Posted using ShareThis

LOGICOMIX: THOMAS RIGGINS REVIEW on politicalaffairs.net

2009-11-03T10:18:00.000+02:00

This is an excellent graphic novel about the life and times of Bertrand Russell and his search for the foundations of mathematics. Believe it or not, this is a really good read and not a dry and esoteric exercise in the history of mathematics. Even activist and writer Howard Zinn calls it “extraordinary.”

PW’s books of the year!!!

2009-11-02T14:48:00.002+02:00

Read me: http://xrl.in/3imb

HALASANA

2009-11-01T12:28:00.001+02:00

RT from the The Official Web Site of Christian Sauvé

2009-10-31T10:17:00.000+02:00

Posted by Christian Sauvé, on his own website, www.christian-sauve.com:

Logicomix

What a delightfully odd and wonderful book.
There’s nothing stating that Logicomix shouldn’t exist, and yet… the thought of a comic book explaining the foundations of mathematically-driven logic via the life of Bertrand Russell certainly ranks high on the list of “book one wouldn’t expect”. The event bigger surprise is that Logicomix is such an absorbing and successful work.
Scott McCloud would be proud, I suppose, given how clearly Logicomix espouses the principles he sets out in his trilogy of works about comic books. It takes an intellectually challenging subject, gives it life through dramatic events and meta-fiction interludes, hooks readers with beautiful and evocative art and delivers a reading experience unlike anything a prose writer would have been able to achieve. It’s a minor achievement –and not merely as a comic book.
The easiest dramatic arc to follow in Logicomix is the early life of British intellectual Bertrand Russell, as he grows up to become a logician and blossom alongside the birth of Logic as an academic discipline. Russell sought to explain logic not just as a subset of philosophy, but as being proven by mathematical theorems. (Hence his Principia Mathematica, 379 pages leading up to “From this proposition it will follow, when arithmetical addition has been defined, that 1+1=2.”) Russell may have indulged in intellectual sphere unattainable by ordinary humans, but his life was as dramatic as they came: He came from a well-bred but highly dysfunctional family, married often, rubbed shoulders with some of the greatest names in European intelligentsia (which included mentoring Wittgenstein)… and that’s just the first half of the book. (Such is the richness of Russell’ s life that among other things that Logicomix doesn’t have time to address in depth is the controversy about his pacifism leading to his academic dismissal, much more of his eventful domestic life and his survival of a plane crash that killed nearly half the other passengers.) Through Logicomix, Russell emerges as a sympathetic figure, maybe even a hero of sorts.
But the real protagonist of Logicomix is human thought itself, the way in which it stems from life and the way it builds upon itself. Logicomix becomes a spellbinding portrait of how great thinkers collaborate, argue, set their theories on paper and often see them superseded by better ideas inspired by their own work. The collaboration between Russell and Alfred North Whitehead is portrayed vividly, as are his (sometimes-fictionalized) contacts with other philosophers and logicians across the Continent. Best of all, LogicomixLogicomix’s vulgarization. actually manages to teach a few interesting things to readers, including Russell’s own paradox of set containers. Wittgenstein’s path through life (easily as fascinating as Russell’s) is also sketched with good explanations of his early and latter schools of thought. Those whose education may not include solid primers in logic have nothing to fear and everything to gain from
Another layer helps all elements of the book together and make it relevant to today’s audiences: an ongoing meta-fictional conversation between the book’s co-authors and the artists responsible for illustrating Logicomix: We’re meant to follow their progress as they argue about the book’s theses, the metaphors used to present its concepts and what needs to be left on the wayside. It eventually leads to an allegory-rich theatre show and a few highly promising concept for a sequel on computer science, the natural offspring of the concepts discussed throughout the book.
There’s no need to state how quickly I would buy such a sequel, or any follow-up comparable to Logicomix. For a chance discovery in the “Graphic Novel” section of the bookstore, I’m stunned at how successful Logicomix is at its stated goals. I’m not even bothered by the esoteric nature of the final pages given how I expect to re-read the book eventually and find new things in it. Scott McCloud preached in the wilderness for years about the particular strengths of the graphic novel as a form of expression, and now we have as clear an example of what he was espousing. The result is as accessible as it’s stunning: a primer about logic in graphic novel form. Never mind how some people are going to be blown away by this book: it’s due for a long life as a college textbook, an example of how mature graphic novels can be, and a good old read for anyone who wants a little substance in their entertainment reading.
Logicomix may be odd and wonderful, but the time is ripe for it to become a bit less sui generis.

Zen Community: LOGICOMIX

2009-10-30T10:27:00.000+02:00

Both Sides / No Sides: A Zen Community: LOGICOMIX

Green Voices / Athens

2009-10-30T10:13:00.000+02:00

» 16-18 October : Athens, Greece

Book Review: Logicomix

2009-10-27T21:34:00.001+02:00

Book Review: Logicomix

"(...) The book is a visual banquet chronicling Russell's lifelong pursuit of "certainty in total rationality." As Logic and Mathematics, the last bastions of certainty, fail him, and as Reason proves not absolute, Russell is forced to face the fact that there is no Royal Road to Truth.

Authors Dosiadis and Papadimitriou perfectly echo Russell's passion, with a sincere, easily grasped text amplified with breathtaking visual richness, making this the most satisfying graphic novel of 2009, a titanic artistic achievement of more than 300 pages, all of it pure reading joy.

The Battle Between Pictures and Words

2009-10-27T21:02:00.001+02:00

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

The Battle Between Pictures and Words

View more presentations from Austin Kleon.

relax in SHAVASANA

2009-10-27T14:51:00.000+02:00

Christos Papadimitriou / Logicomix tour

2009-10-27T14:49:00.000+02:00

LOGICOMIX Christos will be at Idlewild Books in Manhattan TONIGHT at 7! Flyer here: http://twitpic.com/m3rcp

Praise

2009-10-23T15:11:00.000+03:00

On: http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/logicomix/

(...)
Somehow, the story remains interesting and occasionally gripping for all of its 352 pages, and Papadatos’ art is perfect for this tale: buttoned-up cartooning that’s unfussy and unstuffy. Academics as accessible entertainment? LOGICOMIX proves it can be done, and done very well.

YOGA & SCIENCE

2009-10-07T14:15:00.006+03:00

CHAKRASANA

2009-10-05T20:55:00.001+03:00

Eka Prada Pranamasana. For balance.

2009-10-02T23:54:00.002+03:00

2009-10-02T23:15:00.002+03:00

Logicomix in NY Times Editor's choise:
http://xrl.in/38xw

2009-10-01T18:47:00.002+03:00

Padmasana or Lotus posture.