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Special Guest: Level Up Leroy

29/03/2019 by

Level Up Leroy

Comic Con DJ

Special Guest for CCC2019

We are excited to announce top nerdy UK DJ, Level Up Leroy as one of our headlining DJ Guests for Cyprus Comic Con 2019! Level up Leroy prides himself on being a purveyor of the finest Nerd and Geek beats, having DJ’ed at comic cons all over the globe! He is also proud of his 5000+ comic book collection! Leroy will be joining us on the CCC Outdoor Stage and the CCC After Party with glorious mixes of our favourite pop culture music made into an unforgettable party with dubstep, retrowave and chiptune twists accompanied by a light dance show!

Visit DJ Level Up Leroy’s website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Soundcloud and YouTube channel.

Level Up Leroy travels to comic con conventions and after parties playing his unique blend of nerd video remixes and tracks. Leroy’s sets are the epitome of what being a DJ is about – abundant passion, amazing tunes, nimble mixing (up-to 4 decks) & crowds of smiling dancers! Leroy has also played at many of the finest clubs, bars and venue’s across the country & abroad.

On top of convention gigs Level Up Leroy has played for Red Bull and Aspall Cyder at their events. Some of his UK gigs include, Gatecrasher Sheffield, Tiger Tiger London, Mercy Norwich (Club of year while working there), Optic, Liquid Norwich, Time Norwich, Bar:me Watford, Gatecrasher (Now Bed) Watford & many more.

He has worked with many acts including Tinchy Stryda, Calvin Harris, Dizzee Rascal, Pendulum, Chase N Status, Eddy Temple-Morris, Westwood, Coolio, Skepta, Luck & Neat, Firin’ Squad, Judge Jules, Graeme Park, East 17, Pat Sharp, Chappers & Dave, Simon Webb, Sander Van Doorn, Lisa Lashes, Trevor Nelson and many others.

 His pure genius mixes and ability to get all crowds going and singing along makes Level Up Leroy one of the best and most fun DJ’s in the UK!

Watch Level Up Leroy’s promo video!

Special Guest: William Simpson

11/03/2019 by

William Simpson

 Leader story board artist for Game of Thrones

Special Guest for Cyprus Comic Con 2019

To see more of Simpson’s work for Game of Thrones, follow his Facebook Fanpage.

In-Booth Signing & Panel information

GoT themed Panels

Williams Simpson will be joining Eugene Simon and Ross Mullan on both Saturday (20th April) and Sunday (21st April) for a 1 hour panel about Game Of Thrones

Booth Times

Simpson will be available for meet and greet at his booth. He will be also selling sketches, prints and commissions. More info on his booth times and panels to be confirmed once the CCC19 schedule is announced.

William Simpson is an international artist whose career began in comicstrip art, working on a range of character icons such as: Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, Batman, Transformers, Hellblazer, Tyranny Rex, Aliens, and Vamps. 

In recent years Simpson has developed his work in the film industry providing conceptual art and storyboards for a variety of feature films, such as: Reign of Fire, directed by Rob Bowman, Freeze Frame, directed by John Simpson, Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto, Ondine, Byzantium, David Gordon Green and Danny McBride’s Your Highness for Universal, Halo, Morgan, Dracula Untold, Unknown,  Lord Richard Attenborough’s 2006 production, Closing The Ring and the Tom Hanks produced, City Of Ember. Most recently, a ten year run on Game of Thrones for HBO. As the leader storyboard artist for Game of Thrones, Simpson turns the words from the script and sketches out the director’s vision into an initial comic strip version as a visual reference, whilst also trying to turn it into a believable concept.

Special Guest: Ketrin Cosplay

24/02/2019 by

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CCC is thrilled to announce Ketrin Cosplay as its final Cosplay Special Guest for CCC19!

Ketrin is a cosplayer from the Czech Republic. She has been cosplaying since 2011 and although she does not do it for a living, she hopes that she will be able to do that at some point. Ketrin loves armours and weapons and enjoys being a badass. Her favourite part of crafting a cosplay costume is painting with an airbrush and trying new painting techniques.

Follow Ketrin on Facebook and Instagram to see more of her remarkable costumes!

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Ketrin also enjoys travelling and meeting new people, especially other cosplayers. Another one of her favourite hobbies is gaming and two of her favourite games are Darksiders and League of Legends.

Ketrin won the first place in the group category of European Cosplay Gathering (ECG) in 2018 alongside Ali and Germia. In 2016 her Uriel cosplay won the award for most elaborate cosplay at EpicCon in Germany. Her greatest experience was her collaboration with THQ Nordic where she had the opportunity to be the official cosplayer for Fury from Darksiders 3. She enjoys a good whiskey and prefers cats 🐱.

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Ketrin as a judge at the CCC19 EuroCosplay Qualifier

Ketrin will be one of our Special Guest judges for our EuroCosplay Qualifier on Saturday and will also be hosting the two following panels with Ali Cosplay & Props:

  • Saturday (20th of April)

Topic:  It’s All About The FOAM!

  • Sunday (21st of April)

Topic: Battle Damage And Weathering

*Full info of panels to be confirmed once the Cyprus Comic Con 2019 schedule is announced

Special Guest: Chris Achilleos

05/05/2017 by

Cyprus Comic Con has the honour of announcing Greek Cypriot illustrator, painter and concept artist Chris Achilleos as one of our esteemed Special Guests for CCC17!

Chris (Christos) Achilleos was born in a rural village near Famagusta before moving to London, United Kingdom in 1959 where he currently resides. He graduated from Hornsey College of Art, where he studied technical illustration, various drawing techniques, as well as airbrushing — a painting technique that proved very useful in his career later on, as it provided a sleek, realistic finish that eventually became his trademark. After graduating, Achilleos worked as an illustrator at a design studio, Brian Boyle Associates, where he perfected his skills at typography, layout, bookcover design and production, until 1972, when he started his freelance career.

For more of Chris Achilleos’ work, visit his website and follow his official page on Facebook.

 

Painting Fiction

Over the past 47 years, Chris Achilleos has created some of the best loved fantasy and glamour art and is widely considered as one of the most influential science fiction and fantasy artists in the world. His near photo-realistic paintings have illustrated hundreds of books, magazines and posters. Achilleos’ work is highly acclaimed and respected in the art and film industry worldwide, due to his unique interpretation of stunning Amazon women, epic dragons of fighting fantasy and illustrious paintings inspired by ancient civilisations and mythology.

In the late seventies, the science fiction and fantasy genres were immensely popular both in the US as well as in Great Britain and Chris Achilleos found himself flourishing as a fantasy artist. His works adorned numerous fantasy book covers for titles by Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Michael Moorcock. Achilleos is also well known for the graphic illustrations he produced for the original publications of Doctor Who novels at Target Books.

 

Fantasy & Film

Chris Achilleos contribution to the film industry started with the book covers he produced in the 70s for a spaghetti western featuring Clint Eastwood and in 1984 with the covers of a reissued series of twelve Star Trek books and later, promotional artwork for the films themselves. His first major commission in the film industry was for the cult 1980’s animated adult fantasy movie Heavy Metal, for which he worked as a conceptual/costume artist and also painted the promotional poster, as well as designed the look of its iconic heroine, Taarna.

Other movies he has worked on include the American fantasy film Willow (1988), the historical drama King Arthur (2004) and The Last Legion (2007).

 

The Collection

Achilleos’s work is collected in the following four art books and trading card sets:

Beauty and the Beast (1978) – a collection of fantasy book covers and pin-up art which sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and was translated into five languages.
Sirens (1986) – a collection of work including Doctor Who, Star-Trek, Fantasy, Science-Fiction and pin-ups. Another best seller which included a Polish and Japanese language editions.
Medusa (1988 and 2002) – a fascinating insight into Achilleos’s working methods and techniques, showing many of his working drawings from previous books.
Four sets of trading cards by F.P.G. 1993.
Amazona (2004) – a collection of new paintings inspired by Greek mythology, Amazons, images commissioned for role-playing/computer games pin-ups and others.

Special Guest: Simon Furman

26/04/2017 by

Cyprus Comic Con is proud to announce its first Special Guest for CCC17, renowned comic book writer Simon Furman!

 

Comics & Graphic Novels

Furman is best known for his prolific work on the Transformers franchise, having written hundreds of stories for all major US & UK publishers (including most of the UK-original comic stories of Generation 1) – Marvel, IDW, Dreamwave and Titan, as well as the Transformers manga for Japanese publisher Million Publishing. He is also the author of the best-selling book Transformers: The Ultimate Guide (2004), which offers a detailed, in-depth look at the history and evolution of the Transformers characters.

Simon Furman is the co-creator of digital comic book saga To The Death, together with artist Geoff Senior. The online comic combines hard-hitting sci-fi action and sharp-edged satire and is a series of 18 episodes. Set on Earth in 2674, it tells the story of Aleksy Dryagin (aka Komodo), who is returning home to a hero’s welcome and a death sentence, as he finds an enemy in the Triumvirate (the joint heads of the ruling Tri-Corp). With nothing left to lose, Dryagin prepares to fight …”To The Death”!

Furman is currently working on a series of comics and graphic novels based on Dreamworks’ popular titles How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda. His extended list of comic book credits include StarCraft, Transformers: Regeneration One, Alpha Fight, Death’s Head, Doctor Who, Dragon’s Claws, Robocop, She-Hulk, Terminator, Torchwood, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and What If?.

To see more of Simon Furman’s work, visit his personal website and follow him on Facebook and Twitter (@SimonFurman3)!

Animation & Gaming

In the world of TV animation, Furman is currently serving as head writer and script supervisor of the hit Nicktoons & CITV show, Matt Hatter Chronicles (2011– ), which tells of the adventure of a schoolboy turned hero, that discovers a secret dimension called the Multiverse where must defeat a number of Super Villains in order to rescue his Grandpa! Additionally, Simon Furman has written for shows such as Beast Wars: Transformers (1996-1999), the science fiction animation program Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends (1999-2000), as well as the animated series of Dan Dare (2002), X-Men: Evolution (2000-2003), Alien Racers (2005) and A.T.O.M. (Alpha Teens on Machines, 2005-2007).

In the field of computer games, Furman has worked extensively with Space Ape Games on the mobile game Transformers: Earth Wars (released in 2016) as well as the recently released retro arcade shooter, Fastlane: Road to Revenge (19th April 2017) as well as another title, still in early development.

Simon Furman will have a selection of art prints and other signed works available for sale at his booth, so make sure to visit and grab yourself a limited edition signed print, or bring your own copies of Furman’s titles for him to sign!