Tales of Unsurpassed Vanity (Ιστορίες Ατελείωτης Ματαιοδοξίας) #5
December 2001. Athens: Self-published. 24 pages.

In the late 1990s I migrated to Athens, Greece, and began self-publishing my personal comic book anthology, Tales of Unsurpassed Vanity (Gr: Ιστορίες Ατελείωτης Ματαιοδοξίας), which became one of Greece’s longest-running self-published independent comics.

The anthology featured some continuing stories, like Jazz & Maria, about vampire club kids who get entangled in a massive science fantasy adventure.
It also featured self-contained semi-autobiographical stories, mostly about the dark corners of Athens, as well as comedic strips starring my characters Louvre De Buff, a weed-smoking stray dog, and Punky Smurf, an anarchopunk smurf that hates his brainwashed smurf collective.
Tales of Unsurpassed Vanity lasted ten issues, ending in 2004.

Back cover (alternative cover):

A review of the issue in 9/Ennea #78 (19 December 2001):

Victoria page 1:

Victoria page 2:

Victoria page 3:

Jazz and Maria – Episode 5 – page 1:

Jazz and Maria – Episode 5 – page 7:

Louvre De Buff page 1:

Louvre De Buff page 2: