Ilias Kyriazis on NEWS 24/7: ‘I gave up on the painting in question

A sketch from the beginning of life Written by comedian Elias Kiriazis came “on the surface”. At the height of the attacks he has received in recent days from far-right circles. Crysis led Gameworld to force the site out of its system Cyprus Comic Con, Due to his publicly expressed stances by his manager, he was later fired…

In particular, Cyprus Comic Con, with a release on social media, announced the removal of GameWorld.gr from this year’s event. The medium in question was originally a communication supporter and participated in its own position. Reasons for removal They have to deal with its executive’s constant postings on social media, which recently caused a lot of reactions, Much of the world asked for the cancellation of participation, which was eventually done. It is noteworthy that the Twitter account of the said journalist has been suspended due to his hateful posts.

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In the second year, it was also decided to expel Kryasis.

In “response” to the initial ban, they were circulated on social media by far-right circles H. fake photos of kriasis, But his painting was classified as “pedophilic” and was once published in a small-circulation amateur magazine.

As Elias Kiriazis said in a press release regarding an old, controversial painting of his that suddenly surfaced on social media and was used against him for political reasons:

“This is a sketch from about 25 years ago for a small-circulation underground fanzine. It’s a failed attempt at imitating a late 90s/early 00s (think South Park) “shocking/extreme” comedy. ‘No talent, but the sketch is bad, dumb, cheap and An immaturity with no artistic merit. I never posted or republished the sketch, and then when it was retracted I repeatedly rejected it without question.

Every time you see painting anywhere, it’s against my will

Every time you see painting anywhere, it’s against my will. As a result, something that was basically in my trash can gets hundreds of times more people posting it all over the internet than the handful of people who saw it when I designed it.”

Our cartoonist comments on Gameworld’s expulsion from Cyprus Comic Con:

“Camworld was rightly chopped by the CCC. It exhibits extreme homophobic, racist and transphobic speech (if five minutes of YouTube by its founder doesn’t convince you, I can’t say much) and I don’t think there’s any place for that in a modern organization.

So after I and others contacted Con directly and got a “figure it out between yourselves” response, I tagged CCC and made a public post about what Gameworld stands for.

I don’t hide that I’m very disappointed with the overall situation of the organization, but at least they were forced to do the right thing in the end.”

Commenting on the magazine, he tells us he feels particularly disappointed by what happened. “Few cared to know what happened and how. Many seemed content to uncritically reproduce the cries of the alt-right.” So be it!”. So, while there should be a conversation about the intolerance of the far right in the arts (or anywhere), we’re criticizing a stupid painting they drew about this guy 25 years ago. Reason”.

It is worth noting that some went so far as to “photoshop” the face of Kiriasis with the child rapist from Kolonos, while the false frame is reproduced as the real one, with threats against the creator’s life.

He published some of them through his Facebook profile, where he found great support from the medium users.

How should we comment on the above? No matter how misguided the artist’s painting, no matter how bad and stupid it is, somewhere we have to separate the error from the fascist rot. The former is corrected, and its correction is proved by one’s subsequent approach to life. The second cancer, which lives in bile and feeds on it, finds more and more space in chaotic society.

It’s also scary how a project ends up isolated, targeted and demonized in digital reality. Everyone has their own opinion, accepted, but at least before expressing it, it is better to know more about the broadcaster and his evolution. warning Fair criticism is one thing and witch hunting is another.

Greek Trumpists, increasingly degenerating into the Greek alt-right far-right, are mobilizing inside and outside parliament. If he pretends not to see this, he is simply blind. If we don’t stand up now to those threatened by fascists, we will see worse to come and institutionalized coverage.

Artists support Kiriazis

With their announcement, the Greek Comics Awards took a stand on what happened. As specifically mentioned:

“In the last twenty-four hours we have seen Elias Kiriasis, a member of our Academy and a famous Greek and foreign comedy creator, subjected to immoral and malicious attacks on social media by people and accounts clearly close to the so-called alt-right or extreme right.

In the past few months, the art we love has come under attack from its respective personalities once again, but the response from the world of the Greek comics community has been clear and unwavering. We stand by Ilias Kiriazis and his art, which some people try to falsify to create records”.

Fovos Deliverias took a stand in favor of Comista. As he wrote:

“For those familiar with comics, Charlie Hebdo, Babel, Parapente, Kevin Smith, and the later days of Pantagraphics, the sketch doesn’t misunderstand an entire film era (Waters, Makaev, Jodorowsky, etc.). The creator’s life, only aesthetic recognition or rejection.

Kiriasis has publicly denied it several times, deepening his own — as well as society’s — perception of the horrors of the problem. He progressed from a teenager with absorbing influences to a highly successful international creator with his own universe.

During his purely political (in the active citizen sense) conflict with the alt-right circles of the domestic comics scene, an old sketch of him was discovered, he was declared a pedophile on Twitter, and bad photoshops on Miho’s part were spreading. There are generally calls for his assassination. I was looking at them yesterday and I couldn’t believe it. Thousands of people want to kill him on the occasion of a bad photoshop.

Many of us have had neo-Arian attacks. It’s a noisy daily habit that we’re tired of paying attention to. But here it is not the same: a person’s life is in danger because of false evidence.

I don’t know who coordinated such an attack, but I do know that we should not be silent and dark on this matter, and the media, the law and the authorities should not let it go. Otherwise, something unprecedented begins. It’s better not to start.”

Similar positions were expressed by other representatives of pop culture, “pushing back” against the new ambiguity. Some of them are listed below.