Panagiotis D. Giakas

Panagiotis Giakas was born in Thessaloniki in 1978. He graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. He has worked in television and collaborated as an illustrator with publishing houses and newspapers, both in entertainment and political sections. He has participated in solo and group art exhibitions in Italy and Greece, curated the artistic direction of music festivals, and worked as a ceramics instructor for individuals with special needs, as well as a woodcarving instructor at the Alikarnassos prison. - Artistic director of Kostas Sfikas's film Kafka's Metamorphosis (Jury Prize, Thessaloniki Festival, 2008). - Among the winners of the literary competition A Short Story for the Crisis by the newspaper To Vima (2013). - Creator of the book The History of Crete in Comics, published by cretancomics (2015).