Helias Kyriazis

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Helias Kyriazes (Greek: Ηλίας Κυριαζής), born in 1978 in Athens, is a Greek comic book artist widely known in Greece for his comic series Blood Opera and Manifesto, the latter containing some autobiographical elements, both of which published in the Greek comic magazine 9 of Eleftherotypia.

Helias has been working on comics since a young age and in 2001 he won the 1st award of the new artists category in the 1st panhellenic comics contest of 9. The same year, he started collaborating with the magazine, illustrating the series Se Vlepo (Σε Βλέπω is also the Greek translation of the title of the series of thriller movies Saw), which means I'm watching you.

The Blood Opera series was concluded in three consecutive issues (# 134- 136), and was published, along with drafts, in 2004 from Syllogi Ennea ('9 Collection) of the newspaper. Manifesto was published in a collected form in 2005 by the same publishers, while continuing as a series in 9 to this day. Earlier, he had created the Blockbuster comic series, while now he also keeps a one-page strip called Ena Tsigaro Chronos (One Cigarette's Time) with Tassos Papaioannou.

He often collaborates with the latter outside the context of 9, through Papaioannou's giganto books, which has published the comics Tourta (Cake), in 2006, by the two together, as well as Blast Comics, being an anthology with work of comic artists from Greece, America and Turkey, and rumored to be a project conceived and organized by Kyriazes himself.

In autumn 2005, he published the issue #0 of Gin 747 (self-published) containing comics in the English language, with Vasilis Lolos and Vasilis Bibas.