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).
Nassos Vakalis is a multiple Emmy award-winning animation director, studio supervisor, storyboard artist, and animation director.
He was born and raised in Athens, Greece, and studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Over the course of his rich professional life he has worked on film animation in the most famous studios: DreamWorks Animation, Warner Bros, Gaumont, Paramount, Sullivan-Bluth, and Universal/Illumination. Nassos was one of the pioneers of digital storyboarding, and is also a director and creator in his own right.
His allegorical short film "Dinner For Few" (2014) won over 78 international awards and qualified for the 88th Academy awards. Over the years, Vakalis has shared his time between Greece and the United States, but today lives in Los Angeles.
