Leonidas Kalliaras was born in Trikala of Thessaly in 1988. When he was one year old he moved to Athens where he lives until now. He has studied Commerce and Advertising in Athens. From a young age, he was interested in arts and painting and he studied Byzantine Iconography Art. After that, he began to learn painting and making sketches. He has participated in group exhibitions of Painting and Byzantine Iconography. He has painted walls on-demand in commercial spaces, restaurants and local shops. For almost a year had partnered up with local Athens newspaper and made the back covers that depicted musicians artists. His influences stem from the literature of Fantasy, poetry and the love for the Southern and Western American culture, from thus he inspired the first comic book “A bullet with my name – Hellhounds on my trail”, and the second book “What is the soul of a man” with southern gothic characters. In the field of comic and illustrations, his first job “A Bullet With My name – Hellhounds on My Trail” was presented for the first time in comic festival (2017) and the second comic book “A Bullet with my name – What is the Soul of a Man” was presented at AthensCon 2017. In his spare time, he reads books, dealing with gaming, and experimenting with the wood carving and miniature sculpture.
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