Comic Art in Greece

Here are few Greek humor and comics magazines I picked up in a used book store in Athens.

Unlike Istanbul, where I tended to easily find Turkish humor publications at the corner newsstands with ample contemporary social and political satire (see previous posts) I didn't see any current Greek humor magazines.  Maybe I just missed them. All the examples here are from the 1980's and possibly 1990's.

Para Pente a once popular humor magazine

Babel with a cover by French artist Moebius

Babel, a highly regarded publication, was another limited edition comics magazine that featured Greek cartoonists along with an international selection of artists including Jules Feiffer, Will Eisner and Moebius.

Babel would reprint classic American comic strips along with "underground" style Greek cartoonists such as Soloup (aka Antonis Nikolopoulos)

Soloup

A very popular contemporary cartoonist is Arkas

This small comic reprint was in a copy of Para Pente. Apparently an early Greek comic.