Asterix

Tasmar’s fine fan art

| Costas Barbatsis

Wouldn’t you like to see one of your favourite comic book artist draw with there own unique style a comic book character?

A comic book character that you are very fond of, well Tasos Maragkos also known as Tasmar is doing exactly this the past four weekends!

Every weekend on a Saturday he posts on Instagram and Facebook fan art of some of our favourite comic book characters

He started with Nada Overdrive

He continued with Asterix.

Than he went onto Popeye.

And the previous weekend he did a character from Lucky Lucke

I’m a big fan of Tasmar’s comics and l do like his style, I’m just waiting to see what comes next so I can choose a fan favourite fan art

I strongly suggest you pop over to his profiles on Instagram and Facebook and check it out!

Finding Comic Books – Sifnos

| Costas Barbatsis

During summer vacations instead of a book, I look for a good old comic book.

This summer while having a walk in Apollonia, the chora of the Greek island Sifnos I found a small book store which had several old comics from the Asterix series.

I bought Asterix and Kleopatra the Geeek translated version.

Although I had read it as a kid it always was one of my favourite comics which was missing from my collection.

I am glad that I continue all these years this “tradition” of mine of no matter where I might be I will always try to find comic books!

Blast from the past

| Costas Barbatsis

I do not remember which of the two I read first but Blek and Asterix where two comic books that I would read occasionally when I was a kid.
Both were translated in Greek as ΜΠΛΕΚ and Αστερίξ.

The very first time I read Asterix was when I was about 11 and my cousin lent me all the issues that had been published up to then.
What a blast, the art was amazing and the stories were such humorous adventures, it was such a sad day when my cousin after repeatedly asking me to give the comics back she finally came over and picked them up her self.

Blek was a comic which Ι picked up by chance because I didn’t have something else to read. It was an anthology of comics I wasn’t that interested in Blek’s adventures.I was amazed though by several other comics which were featured in it, like Aria and the Leopard from Lime Street.

The reason I was reading them occasionally was that my pocket money was not enough to buy all the comics which were coming out when I was a kid and later they had stopped being published.

Now they have come back Blek is published by Μικρός Ήρως and Asterix by Μαμούθ Comix