Finding the blending point between the everyday and the unknown is a thread that runs through much of Fikaris’s work.  As an artist known for painting his gas-masked characters on the streets of Melbourne as much as he is for publishing countless small press publications.  Fikaris has gone from spearheading Melbourne’s fledgling graphic storytelling  movement in the early 2000s, as general braddock of the silent army comic art collective, to being a touring artist leaving printed ephemera wherever he goes.  With a love of drawing and painting his work has taken him to Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, East Timor and New Zealand. As an avid illustrator FIkaris also enjoys collaborating with others on graphic storytelling projects and over the years has found himself drawing for the words of such unique  voices as Harvey Pekar, Nicola Gunn, Osme Gonsalves and Kyle Magee.
 
‘...(Fikaris is) the comic book shamen of the Melbourne scene.’  Smart Arts   RRR FM    2016