BIO

Anestis Mavrommatis Parasidis is a self taught artist. He was born in 1994 in Thessaloniki (Greece). He is a graduate of the Department of History & Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2012 he started creating illustrations and comics. Since then, he has taken part in several exhibitions and festivals around Greece and Europe.
 
He has self-published two comic books, "Inner Forest" (2021) and "Flies" (2023). In 2022 "Inner Forest" was awarded as the best illustrated self-published comic book and in 2023 "Flies" as the best self-published comic book, both from Chaniartoon International Comics & Animation Festival.
 
The last couple of years he is absorbed in making engravings and learning more things about printing. His designs are also screen printed on t-shirts.

Anestis is passionate about fantastic worlds and imaginary creatures. Among other things, he loves sketching jesters, grotesque daemons, gnomes, frogs and mushrooms. He loves wandering around forests and collecting illustrated books and comics.