Artists’ Alley 2019


The Artists’ Alley is a dedicated space for professional and semi-professional artists to showcase their talent, interact with other creative minds and art enthusiasts, draw commissioned sketches and sell prints, as well as other merchandise of their work.

If you are looking for a unique souvenir to take home with you that’s crafty and creative, then make sure to visit the Artists’ Alley and browse the creative works on display! Or, even better, ask one of the artists to create a custom, commissioned sketch for you of your favourite character!

Abyss Arts & Crafts (Marouso Kalaitzoglou)

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Abyss Arts & Crafts (Marouso Kalaitzoglou) to this year’s Artists’ Alley. Abbys is a cosplayer, graphic designer, concept artist and 3D modeller from Greece. Shhe started creating art and cosplays by herself, but also in the last few years she has studied Graphic Design and 3D Animation. Her main goal […]

Andreas Rossides

We want to welcome 3D artist Andreas Rossides to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Andreas graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design, receiving a B.F.A with Honors in Computer Animation with a Minor in Fine Arts – Painting, as well as successfully completing the Advanced Modeling Course from AnimSchool. He has been working […]

Anestis Mavrommatis – Parasidis Art

We want to welcome Anestis Mavrommatis – Parasidis Art to our Artists’ Alley! Αnestis Mavrommatis-Parasidis was born in 1994 in Thessaloniki (Greece) and still lives there. In 2019 he graduated from the School of History & Archaeology, of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. From 2012 to 2016 he was a member of “Inkorrekt”, a group of […]

Anna Cosma

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to announce the return of Anna Cosma to CCC19 Artists’ Alley! Anna was born and raised in Nicosia. Art and specifically illustration has been a prominent part of her life since childhood. She learned how to draw through trial and error, although after receiving academic training under the guidance of […]

Annisia Iacovou

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes Annisia Iacovou to its Artists’ Alley! Annisia is an 18 year old, self-taught artist born and raised in Nicosia, Cyprus. She discovered her interest in artistic expression through creation; including music and drawing, from a very young age. She has won numerous art contest prizes all around Cyprus. Although she loves […]

Approtis (Fares Zoghlami & Nicholas O’Callaghan)

Approtis is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Approtis is a collaboration between Fares Zoghlami (artist) and Nicholas O’Callaghan (social media promoter). Fares Zoghlami is a 21-year-old half Tunisian, half British artist and illustrator. He has worked on numerous projects over the past five years, including album designs for the bands The Two Thieves and The […]

Arcanum Comics (Demetres Panayides & Marios Yiangou)

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back Arcanum Comics (illustrator Demetres Panayides and writer Marios Yiangou) to its Artists’ Alley for CCC19! Arcanum Comics Arcanum Comics is a collective formed by Demetres Panayides and Marios Yiangou. While currently working on DÆMONIUM, a horror series set in Cyprus, they aim to grow their collection, and hopefully the team, offering high […]

By Trial and Error (Flor Theodosiou)

By Trial and Error (Flor Theodosiou) is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Flor is a 22 year old freelance illustrator, animator, and student of the Fine Arts, as well as a helpless audiophile. A consistent note throughout her work, is the concentrated over-processing of the media she uses, challenging the balance of traditional composition […]

Christofis Agathokleous

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to announce the return of sculpture artist Christofis Agathokleous to its Artists’ Alley. Christofis was born in Limassol and more specifically he is from the Agios Tychonas village. He graduated from Linopetra Lyceum, where subsequently he enlisted in the National Guard, and served on the Green Line.He studied Sociology at the School […]

Chrysso Vassiliou

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to have Illustrator Chrysso Vassiliou return to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Chrysso or “Chyssv” -as she goes by online- is a self taught freelance artist. She has always loved art, but only the past 3-4 years she started taking it more seriously when she started learning digital painting. She loves video games, movies and […]

Claudia Ilona Moussoulos

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back the talented 3D artist Claudia Ilona Moussoulos to this year’s  Artists’ Alley! Claudia a.k.a. Claud was born in Cyprus in 1993. Her journey with art started ever since she can remember. In October 2009, she had her 1st painting exhibition opening called ‘The First Step’ at the age of 16. She later […]

Colto Comics (Babis Ioannidis)

We are thrilled to have Colto Comics (Babis Ioannidis) back for CCC19 Artists’ Alley! Babis  was beamed in Thessaloniki sometime during the glorious golden decade of the 80’s. Right after kindergarten he studied Economics in Hannover and Tibetan zoography in the Himalayas. He worked abroad and in Greece, both in private and public sector. His […]

Costis Papatheodorou

We want to welcome Costis Papatheodorou to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Costis Papatheodorou is a Greek artist  based in Athens. He started working as an art director in ad agencies for international and regional clients. He soon realised that what he really wanted to do was to become an illustrator. Costis achieved his dream and has […]

Design By Stavri (Stavri Symeonidou)

We want to welcome back Design By Stavri (Stavri Symeonidou) to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Stavri Symeonidou is a graphic designer and an illustrator based in the city of Limassol, Cyprus. She is a graduate from Frederick University, Cyprus (BA in Graphic and Advertising Design) and the University of the West of England […]

Eleanna Mavrofrydi

Comic book artist and illustrator Eleanna Mavrofrydi is returning to our Artists’ Alley for this year’s event! Eleanna was born on 16th of December 1991 in Athens, Greece. Having an appeal to painting from her early years, she attended art classes during her adolescence and in 2014 she graduated from AKTO college with a Bachelor in sketching, […]

Elias Neophytou

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back Elias Neophytou to its Artists’ Alley for CCC19! Elias is studying Graphic Design at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). He aspires to be a comic book artist which was his entire goal ever since he can remember. He was interested in drawing from a really young age and everything he […]

Framerender Studio (Nearchos Konstantinou)

Cyprus Comic Con is thrilled to announce the return of multi talented artist Nearchos Konstantinou (aka Framerender Studio) to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Nearchos was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1976 and started scribbling shortly after. He owns a Master of Arts in Communication Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics from the […]

George Theodorides

George Theodorides is returning to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! George is 26 years old and currently lives in Larnaca. He studied Graphic Design at CUT (Cyprus University of Technology) and graduated in 2015. He has been creating fan art as a hobby ever since he was seven years old, drawing all his favourite fictional […]

Jean V. Hiol & George Charalampous

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Jean V. Hiol & George Charalampous to its Artists’ Alley! Jean Valery Hiol studied Graphic Design at European Univercity Cyprus. He got into illustrations and comics after his studies and did some small projects. He is interested in learning always new things and collaborating with other artists. His style […]

Katerina Pantela

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes the talented Katerina Pantela to its Artists’ Alley for CCC19! Katerina is a concept artist, character designer and 2D animator from Cyprus. She holds a First Class Honours BA degree in Animation from the Arts University Bournemouth and has also undertaken specialised courses in Character Design. Katerina has also completed the […]

LarLarLar Comics (Andreas Michaelides, Valia Kapadai & Pavlos Pavlidis)

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back the team of LarLarLar Comics (Andreas Michaelides, Valia Kapadai & Pavlos Pavlidis) to CCC19 Artists’ Alley! LarLarLar Comics is a Greek, multilingual (Greek, English and French) creators’ collective, originally formed by Valia Kapadai, Andreas Michaelides and Pavlos Pavlidis. There is a whole lot of story behind the name and it does have something to do […]

Leonidas “Steve” Stivaktis

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to have artist Leonidas “Steve” Stivaktis to its Artists’ Alley for this year’s event! Steve first took up a pencil when his grandma taught him how to draw daisies, and he’s never put it down since then. He studied comic art and illustration in Onerakis School of Applied Arts in […]

Loukia Chrysafi

We want to welcome Loukia Chrysafi to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Loukia is mostly self taught, though she had a fellow artist teach her several techniques she was interested in the past and she took on a visual communication and illustration course in university. Though still experimenting on styles and techniques, Loukia enjoys more natural […]

Lynn Shields

We want to welcome Lynn Shields to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Pen and ink art with a twist. Perhaps dark and unusual but arresting and thought provoking. Lynn studied art and rediscovered her talent in the last 3 years. She now works as a graphic designer specialising in product development, turning abstract concepts […]

Marios Kyprianou

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome writer Marios Kyprianou to CCC19 Artists’ Alley! Marios is a graduate of the silversmithing department and culinary school. He works as a chef, but since 2005 he started writing in his free time, which is his greatest passion. Marios was fascinated by the fantasy worlds portrayed in books, films […]

Marios Ppoulis

Marios Ppoulis is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Marios is a young 27-year-old artist who is currently based in Larnaca. He discovered his skills in drawing and painting at a very young age. Through the years, he has competed in a variety of art-related competitions for drawing and painting. He completed his studies […]

Miniature Worlds (Gregory Grozos)

Miniature Worlds (Gregory Grozos)is returning to our Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Gregory is a miniature artist and he calls every work he makes a ”miniature world”. He uses small boxes and tiny watch/clock cases to make inside them incredibly detailed miniature scenes, often depicting floating cities, mythical beings, inventors and flying machines. His works […]

Mion (Hermionie Antarti)

Mion (Hermionie Antarti) is returning to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Hermionie is a 16 year old self-taught artist. Although she likes using several techniques, she has mostly promoted her digital works since they tend to contain nerdy and geeky aspects. Her art journey started when she started growing an interest in anime, which is what also got […]

Mister S (Michael Drakos)

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Mister S (Michael Drakos) to its Artists’ Alley! Mike aka Mister S is an illustrator and graphic designer, born, raised and based in the beautiful city of Limassol, Cyprus. He has studied Graphic Design and he has been a proud member of ‘2C Design Box’, a creative multi-space located in […]

N U G G E T (Victoria Ganshin)

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to have N U G G E T (Victoria Ganshin) join this year’s Artists’ Alley! Victoria Ganshin is a 17 year-old self taught artist and she has been drawing since she was 3 years old. She is an illustrator looking for an opportunity to display her art. She mostly works digitally. Victoria is […]

Natalie Pavlidou

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back illustrator Natalie Pavlidou to it’s Artists’ Alley! Natalie is a freelance artist from Cyprus. She is an illustrator and concept artist for the publishing and gaming industry. Her main interest and experience lies in fantasy illustration, focusing mainly on environment art. Her favourite things to draw are landscapes and everything […]

Neil Gibson & Tasos Anastasiades

We proudly welcome TPub‘s Neil Gibson & Tasos Anastasiades who will be featuring their new comic book, “The Traveller” at CCC2019’s Artists’ Alley! “The Traveller” Traveller is a steampunk adventure story set at the turn of the 19th century. Made using cutting-edge 3D modelling combined with traditional hand inking, the story focuses on the greater good and what price we are […]

Nicos Nipat

We are excited to have Nicos Nipat joining us for CCC19 Artists’ Alley! Nicos is a self-taught cartoonist from Cyprus who uses traditional media such as ink and watercolours to offer a funny take on everyday situations. Growing up, the margins of Nicos’ school books were covered in pencil doodles. As an adult he’s constantly […]

Nightwalker MC (Maria Christina Gantt)

Nightwalker MC (Maria Christina Gantt)is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Born in Cyprus, Maria has been pursuing her dreams in art ever since at young age. Her passion grew even more after being introduced to the world of video games and various animation series. The curiosity of what it takes to make […]

Nikoletta Kyprianou

We are delighted to have Nikoletta Kyprianou for another year at CCC’s Artists’ Alley! Nikoletta is a freelance artist and illustrator from Nicosia, with a BA Degree in Illustration from Middlesex University. She really enjoys creating intricate pen drawings of weird and out of this world characters. Nikoletta grew up watching old horror and fantasy […]

Ourania Markou

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to have Ourania Markou to its Artists’ Alley for CCC19! Ourania is a Cypriot citizen and she completed her studies in animation and FX at Falmouth University in Cornwall, United Kingdom. She decided to return to Cyprus after her graduation to have a break and save money before pursuing a Masters […]

Phaidon Nicola

Phaidon Nicola is returning to our Artists’ Alley for another year! Phaidon Nicola is a self taught illustrator/animator from Cyprus. He is inspired by movies, tv shows and video-games. One of his current projects is a youtube channel where he uses animation to talk about movies, tv shows and video-games. He doesn’t like talking about […]

Polina Tsatsami

We are pleased to welcome Polina Tsatsami to CCC19’s Artists’ Alley! Polina is a 23 year old artist from Serres, Greece. She is mostly self taught but she attendeds some drawing lessons at “Artio” Art School At Serres and studied Graphic Designer at IEK Paster at Thessaloniki. Her passion is drawing and sketching, but she […]

Savvas Papadopoulos

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back the talented illustrator Savvas Papadopoulos  to its Artists’ Alley for 2019! Savvas is a freelance illustrator and designer from Nicosia,Cyprus. He graduated from Birmingham City University with a Visual Communication – Illustration diploma and he has since worked on various projects, such as game design, books, comics, logos, digital paintings, board games […]

Smar

We want to welcome talented artist Smar to our Artists’ Alley! Smar lives in Athens, Greece, is constantly trying to organise her life, and frequently wonders if she’ll ever be ready for the responsibilities of a cat. She has illustrated a children’s book about different types of families, uploads a new page of her webcomic […]

Steve Agoto (Steve Chatzidakis)

Steve “Agoto” Chatzidakis is returning back to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Steve Chatzidakis, or “Agoto” as his friends call him, creates art pieces from a very young age. He is a resident of Athens, Greece and he holds a Master of Arts in Graphic Design degree from Middlesex University in London. Despite the fact […]

Thodoris Thou

The Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Thodoris Thou to CCC19 Artists’ Alley! Thodoris is a self-taught sculptor and ceramist. He was born in Paphos but he moved to Nicosia when he was a child. He is mostly figurative sculptor but he also makes functional ceramics too, such as mugs plates, spoons pitches, tea pots etc. […]

Tia Maree Tattoo (Georgia Maree)

We are delighted to have the brilliant tattoo artist Tia Maree Tattoo (Georgia Maree) join us for CCC19 Artists’ Alley! Georgia is self taught artists and she currently works as a resident tattoo artist at ”Endangered Species” tattoo studio. She recently started graffiti as a hobby and collaborated with some graffiti artists for a few of […]

Un Sogno (Marianna Pagkratidou & Eleana Vasiliades)

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Marianna Pagkratidou & Eleana Vasiliades to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Un Sogno is a scientific adventure comic written by Marianna Pagkratidou and illustrated by Eleana Vasiliades. Writer Marianna completed her BSc in Education Sciences in Early Childhood at Democritus University of Thrace in 2013. She completed her Master’s degree in […]

Vasilis Gerkou

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Vasilis Gerkou to its Artists’ Alley! Vasilis is 25 years old and he comes from Greece. He says that painting is his life. He started to draw when he was small kid and he loves to draw comic, characters, worlds, concept arts and generally illustrations…but his biggest love is […]

Yiangos Parmenides & Aliki Papafotiou

We are excited to have Yiangos Parmenides & Aliki Papafotiou to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Yiangos is an 18 year-old self-taught artist who loved drawing and superheroes from a kid and decided to blend them into action packed pieces of art. Aliki is both self-taught and also has been taking art classes. She usually chooses to […]

Yuncumber (Marina Alexikou)

Cyprus comic con wants to welcome Yuncumber (Marina Alexikou) to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Marina is a self-taught artist currently studying something unrelated to art. She always loved watching anime, since her cousin influenced her from a very young age. However, now that she is older she finds herself drawn to the art of manga and comics […]

Zhllustrator (Živko Kondić)

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to welcome Zhllustrator (Živko Kondić) to its Artists’ Alley! Živko is a freelance 2D artist from Novi Sad, Serbia. His art is a particular blend of sci-fi and realism, alternate universes and hovering kittens. His art skills are mostly self taught, even though he was a student of Bogdan Šuput school […]

Anastasia Kozlova

Anastasia Kozlova is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Born in Latvia and raised on the shore of the non-freezing port of the Baltic Sea, Anastasia moved to Cyprus with her family approximately 6 or 7 years ago. As a child, around the age of eight years old, she attended private classes […]

Andreani Soupashi

Andreani Soupashi is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Andreani is a Cyprus-born freelance artist, currently living in the UK. She grew up with a pencil in her hand, drawing whatever interested her at any given moment, mostly horses and cartoons. At the age of four, she enrolled in art classes where she was […]

Anna Miltiadou

We want to welcome Anna Miltiadou to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Anna studied Graphic & Advertising Design and furthered her education by earning a Masters in Illustration. Her work is colourful and cheeky and is inspired by her everyday surroundings, pop culture and everything over, under and in between. The main project she’s been working […]

Arinela Kociko

Our next Featured Artist is young illustrator Arinela Kociko! Arinela is currently studying History & Philosophy of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She loved painting from an early age and in the last couple of years, she began experimenting with creating comics. She attended freehand drawing lessons as well comic book design […]

Copper Mouflon (Christopher Demetriou & Stella Violari)

Copper Mouflon are returning to the Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Copper Mouflon is a cooperation between a writer, Christopher Demetriou, and an illustrator, Stella Violari,  both passionate about creating comics, who want to share their stories with the world THE WRITER Christopher Demetriou, proclaims a passion for stories of all types and is always on the […]

Dia Does Art (Theodora Antarti)

We want to welcome Dia Does Art (Theodora Antarti) to Cyprus Comic Con 2019’s Artists’ Alley! Theodora is a self-taught hobbyist who likes to draw a lot of fanart. She gets inspired by reading manga and watching animated series and experiencing a good story in books and video games. She occasionally draws short comics with […]

Ermina Emmanouel

Ermina Emmanouel is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Ermina was born in Nicosia in 1992 where she now lives and works. She studied Fine Arts in Italy, at Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino and then completed a Master’s degree in Graphic Communication in Cyprus at the Cyprus University of Technology. Right after her studies […]

Heba Rena Yassin

We are pleased to welcome back illustrator Heba Rena Yassin to our Artists’ Alley! Heba was born in Sutton, UK and grew up in sunny Limassol, Cyprus. She has been participating in the Cyprus Comic Con Artists Alley ever since the first one, in 2014! She studied BA Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire and later […]

Kostas Nikellis

Kostas Nikellis is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Kostas was born in Athens, Greece, where he currently resides and works. He is a professional illustrator and computer games graphics designer, while in the past he had worked as a computer programmer and analyst. His works have been published both in Greece and abroad, […]

Tony Tzanoukakis

Tony Tzanoukakis is returning to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Tony is an Greek Australian artist who has been working as a professional Illustrator for the last 6 years. Born in Australia in 1984 he showed his skills in illustration at the early age of 6 winning the city drawing competition. At the age of […]

Vera Kartalou

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back author Vera Kartalou to its Artists’ Alley! Vera Kartalou carries writing as a means of expression and creation. She lovespolice procedural, noir aesthetics, fantasy literature and satire. Her work has been distinguished in creative writing competitions organised by well-known publishing houses and her writings have been published in literary collections and electronic journals such […]