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Alecos Papadatos
, b. 1959
Alecos Papadatos was born in 1959 in Greece. Between 1978 and 1986, he studied Economics at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, followed by a postgraduate degree in Marketing at the University of Sorbonne I, in Paris. In 1986, Papadatos began studying animation and cartoon design, after which he started working as an animator for French TV commercials. Since then, Papadatos has produced, directed, and contributed towards various animated, prize-winning films and animated series, some of which have aired in TV channels, such as the series Babar, which originally aired in Canal Plus, but has since become popular in other countries, such as Portugal. In 1991, he moved to Athens to teach animation and animated film production, where he has since worked alongside his wife, Annie Di Donna, in various television series, TV cartoon commercials, and the comic book Democracy.
Papadatos is also the artist of the graphic novel Logocomix which was the No. 1 New York Times Best Seller Graphic Book in 2009.
Sources:
web.archive.org (accessed: March 07, 2019)
logicomix.com (accessed: March 07, 2019)
Bio prepared by Nanci Santos, OMC Contributor, nancisantos@hotmail.co.uk
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