Elettra Stamboulis

She started her interest in political and reality based comics in 2001, staging Joe Sacco's exhibition in Ravenna[6] Clouds from beyond the borders.

The year after she curated, in association with Stripburger, the collective exhibition Perventiquattromilabaci,[7] which presented the alternative comics scene in the Former Yugoslavia and in the Balkans.

In 2006 she presented the collective exhibition and catalogue dedicated to the Turkish comics magazine Le Man, which was travelling as well in Italy and abroad.

She dedicated to comics writing in the sequent years, publishing with Becco Giallo a trilogy about left leaders in the XX century in Italy, focusing on Antonio Gramsci, Sandro Pertini and Enrico Berlinguer.

In 2014 she curated the last edition of Komikazen Festival in Ravenna, 99% dedicated to art workers and their rights: 99 drawers were called to participate in an open action in the local museum, they were asked to frame their works and install them.

In November 2020 she also curated the project The time of Butterflies: dedicated to the sisters Mirabal in PAC of Milan with works of Zehra Doğan.