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'''Vasilis Christodoulou''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] Βασίλης Χριστοδούλου) was a top [[Greeks|Greek]] cartoonist and satyrist.

Christodoulou was born in [[Piraeus]] in [[1917]]. He published his first sketch in [[1936]], at the age of 19, in the daily "Echo of Greece" («Ηχώ της Ελλάδας»).

In the next fifty-plus years, he developed himself into the most productive cartoonist in Greece with some 120,000 sketches to his credit.

Christodoulou drew his humourous themes from athletics, politics and every-day life. He was published in newspapers such as [[Athinaiki]], [[Vradyni]], [[Mesimvrini]] and such popular magazines as [[Romantso]], [[Thisavros]], [[Pantheon]] and [[Proto]].

He also worked with [[Athlitiki Echo]] - a sports newspaper, "Makedonia" - a daily published in Northern Greece, etc.

Newspapers would often publish his political sketches on their front page. Even the 7-year rule of the [[junta]] could not prevent Christodoulou from expressing his satyrical views of political life in [[Greece]]: After the referendum of [[1973]] to abolish the monarchy, he published a sketch expressing strong doubts as to the authenticity of the official results.

His comical series "The party of the Barrel-ists" («Κόμμα των Βαρελοφρόνων») poked fun both at the political world and the world of the drunks.

Christodoulou died on [[September 7]], [[2010]] at the age of 93.

[[Category:1917 births|Christodoulou, Vasilis]]
[[Category:2010 deaths|Christodoulou, Vasilis]]
[[Category:Cartoonists|Christodoulou, Vasilis]]

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	'''Vasilis Christodoulou''' ([[Greek language\|Greek]] Βασίλης Χριστοδούλου) was a top [[Greeks\|Greek]] cartoonist and satyrist.		'''Vasilis Christodoulou''' ([[Greek language\|Greek]] Βασίλης Χριστοδούλου) was a top [[Greeks\|Greek]] cartoonist and satyrist.

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	'''Vasilis Christodoulou''' ([[Greek language\|Greek]] Βασίλης Χριστοδούλου) was a top [[Greeks\|Greek]] cartoonist and satyrist.		'''Vasilis Christodoulou''' ([[Greek language\|Greek]] Βασίλης Χριστοδούλου) was a top [[Greeks\|Greek]] cartoonist and satyrist.