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Democracy
- Authors: Alecos Papadatos and Abraham Kawa
- Category: Non-fiction Art / Illustrated Current Affairs / Politics Narrative
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Pub date: Summer 2014
- Length: 250 pages
About Democracy
Logicomix tells its saga of human argumentation with such drama and vivid colour that it leaves the graphic novel 300… looking like something from Eagle Annual
- INDEPENDENT on LOGICOMIX
From the team behind the international phenomenon, LOGICOMIX, which was on The New York Times best-seller list for ten weeks, won numerous international prizes, and to date has been sold into more than twenty-five languages (garnering blanket critical acclaim in each), comes a new graphic novel… DEMOCRACY, written and illustrated by Alecos Papadatos in collaboration with Abraham Kawa.
DEMOCRACY opens in Athens in 490 BC, on the eve of the Battle of Marathon. The hero of the story, Leander, is trying to rouse his comrades for the morrow’s battle against a far mightier enemy. Leander begins to recount his own life story, bearing direct witness to the evils of the old tyrannical regimes, and to the birth of a new political system. The story that emerges, of the death of the gods and the tortuous birth of democracy, is crammed with extraordinary characters, and tells in incident and vivid detail how this greatest of civic inventions came about. We see that DEMOCRACY was born through a combination of chance and historical contingency – but also through the cunning, courage and wilful action of a group of highly talented and driven men.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Alecos Papadatos worked as an animator, animation director and storyboarder for major European animation production companies from 1984 to 1994. In 1990 his love for drawing led him to the print media, where he still writes and draws comics for two Greek newspapers. He spent 2003 to 2008 drawing the graphic novel LOGICOMIX, which went on to become an international phenomenon.
Abraham Kawa, PhD, is the author of What Song the Sirens Sang? (2004), a collection of fantasy and horror stories, as well as Screaming Silver (2009), first in his “Pandora’s Box” series of paranormal mystery / horror novels. A researcher of graphic novels and genre fiction, he teaches Cultural Studies at the University of the Aegean. In his academic capacity, he is also the author of the study Virtual Gazes: Postmodern Narrative in Comic Books, Cinema and Literature (2002) and has contributed essays and articles in books such as The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction and Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (both 2009).