Vassilis Gogtzilas: April 2025

Cold Dead War. Bloody Paradise.

Issue 316.

My art in black and white for Heavy Metal magazine.

And an unpublished pin up!

BIO

Vassilis Gogtzilas is a comic book artist, painter and illustrator. Best known for The Bigger Bang which he illustrated and co-created with scriptwriter D.J. Kirkbride. As well as for The Adventures of Augusta Wind another comic written by J.M. DeMatteis. Both released by IDW Publishing. His art is characterized by intense experimentation and alternations of technical and design materials through a completely personal expressionistic style that presents melancholic, often fabulous, surreal worlds! He began publishing in various magazines and newspapers in the city he grew up in Thessaloniki mainly for the newspapers Macedonia, Thessaloniki and Aggelioforos. His work can also be found in the insert magazines of these newspapers such as Epiloges, Sunday. He has been a contributor to Eleutherotypia’s comic book magazine 9. He collaborated by publishing a significant number of comics and covers. He has also illustrated many covers and articles for ATHENS Voice magazine. A collaboration that lasted for almost 10 years. Since 2007 his comics have been released in America via Image comics in Popgun anthologies and the one shot Mister Universe. The Bigger Bang followed by The Biggest Bang is a comic book series that received great reviews and still stands out as one of the best for 2015 & 2016 from the Den of Geek website. His collaboration with the legendary writer J.M. DeMatteis in The Adventures of Augusta Wind and The Adventures of Augusta Wind: The Last Story continues a series of well distinguished moments in comics. In 2014 he realized a personal exhibition at Les Yper Yper. Following are personal exhibitions at the Tettix Gallery as well as at the Ro Gallery. His illustrations were included in TASCHEN’s Illustration Now among the most well known illustrators in the world.