Cyprus Comic Con

Special Guest: Alex Reiss

23/08/2017 by Cyprus Comic Con

Cyprus Comic Con is proud to announce that our third Cosplay Special Guest is the talented Alex Reiss!

Alex (Alexandra Pankova) started cosplaying in 2010 and her first awards were for team stage plays. She enjoyed making costumes as well as acting on stage. Around 2013, she decided to concentrate on solo performances and on developing her crafting skills further. She learned a lot about working with various materials, starting from the simplest ones, such as plywood and papier-mache, to modern thermoplastics and advanced technologies like 3D print.

In 2014, her solo costumes started receiving recognition as well as awards and her biggest accomplishment so far is receiving 3rd place at MCM London ComicCon Eurocosplay in 2016 (which she says, won’t be the last!).

At the moment, she continues making new costumes, traveling around the world and sharing her experience and expertise with fellow cosplayers, through lectures and tutorials.

You can follow Alex on Facebook, WorldCosplay, DeviantArt and Patreon!

Photography: Eva

Photography: Oksana Mokrushina

Alex Reiss as a judge at CCC17’s EuroCosplay Qualifier

Alex will be one of our Special Guest judges, joining Calypsen and NightCold Créations, for the EuroCosplay Qualifier on Saturday and will also be sharing her knowledge and valuable cosplay tips at the following lectures:

Lectures

Saturday:

Topic: 3D Printing Cosplay Props
Duration: 1h

Sunday

Topic: Cosplay Stage Performance Workshop*
Duration: 1h

*Alex will be giving a special cosplay performance during this workshop!

Lykanka, Alex’s Cosplay Partner will be a Judge for CCC Masquerade!

Lykanka (Maria Remeeva) is Alex’s usual cosplay partner. They often help each other with their costumes, as well as collaborate on writing the scripts for their performances. She will be a perfect addition to our judges’ roster for the Sunday cosplay competition, the CCC Masquerade!

Visit Lykanka’s pages on VK, DeviantArt and Twitter!

Photography: Eva

Artist Profile: Yannis ‘Rubus’ Rumbulias

23/08/2017 by Cyprus Comic Con

Cyprus Comic Con has the honour of hosting the multitalented illustrator and comic book artist, Yannis “Rubus” Rumbulias at this year’s Artists’ Alley!

Born in Athens, Yannis “Rubus” Rumbulias is a professional illustrator and comic book artist since 2005.

He is the creator, author and artist of the first Greek critically acclaimed and award winning ongoing sword and sorcery comic “The Dragonphoenix Chronicles”, the complete series of which is now available by Jemma Press.

Among others he has worked as the cover artist for the Greek edition of “Spawn Godslayer” by Comicworld Editions, guest artist in Comicdom Press mini series “Syndrome” and as a cartoonist for 3,5 years for “Vima” newspaper.

In May 2011, he began his collaboration with American publishing house Arcana Studios for the science fiction graphic novel “Deadly Harvest” (also released in the Greek language by Comicworld Editions), the mini-series “Zipper vs Dominatrix” with characters created by KISS’ Gene Simmons, as well as the steampunk fantasy comic “The Steam-engines of Oz”. In 2016, he collaborated with the American company ARH Comix for the epic fantasy title, “Arhian, the Head Huntress”, while in 2017 he began working with the big American publishing company, IDW.

You can follow Rubus on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!

Occasionally he works as a scriptwriter and actor and has also worked as a freelance concept artist for a variety of products and companies. Since 2005, he has worked for the feature films “The Almighty Tycoon of the Ninja” and “Short Fuse”, as well as the short films “Barbarian Santa”,“Love at first FIGHT” and “Greek Dragon vs Turkish Tiger”. In 2013 he worked as an actor, scriptwriter, producer and concept artist in the feature film “The Dragonphoenix Chronicles: Indomitable”. The film is the continuation of the Greek comic book series “The Dragonphoenix Chronicles” and it has already been recorded in the history of Greek cinema, as the first feature film of epic fantasy that attempts to transfer a Greek comic to the big screen.

He is currently working on the continuation of “The Dragonphoenix Chronicles” in collaboration with talented writers and creators and continues to collaborate with publishing house Jemma Press, SoComic.gr, as well as AddArt for their comic “Mythonauts”.

Artist Profile: Natalie Pavlidou

23/08/2017 by Cyprus Comic Con

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes illustrator Natalie Pavlidou to it’s Artists’ Alley!

Natalie is a freelance illustrator and concept artist. Her interest lies in fantasy art with a personal focus on environmental design. She is intrigued by the idea of creating worlds and setting mood and emotion into a landscape painting. She currently works as a digital artist and likes to work in a painterly style. Ever since childhood she was always drawn to video games – from adventure games, to fantasy RPG – which played an important role and had a huge impact on her current art style.

Although her education background comes from a different field of art, as she graduated with a Bachelor of Music, she could not ignore the fact that she was so much drawn to drawing. She would find herself spending most of her free time admiring artwork, until she finally took the decision to study art. It didn’t take long for the hobby to become a passion and she decided to pursue a career as an illustrator. Her main goal for the future is to keep getting better and improving, work with certain studios and generally grow as an artist.

Visit Natalie’s website and page on DeviantArt to see more images of her work!

Special Guest: NightCold Créations

22/08/2017 by Cyprus Comic Con

Cyprus Comic Con is pleased to announce NightCold Créations as our second Cosplay Special Guest for CCC17!

Loic Lecoustre is a cosplayer from northern France. He has been making costumes for an impressive 10 years and specialises in futuristic, comic and original design armour (such as Batman Beyond and Green Arrow) as well as armour from video games like Monster Hunter – his favourite game!

He is an awarded cosplayer, having received 1st place at Made in Asia 2013 and 1st place at the Virtual Calais Cosplay Contest 2016. NightCold enjoys being able to share his creations with the rest of the world and also helping other cosplayers achieve their goals. He believes that cosplay is a hobby highly related with a big community and the most important is having fun together!

Loic received a lot of praise from online media and cosplay blogs for his fully-handmade and exceptionally detailed Batman Beyond costume (see picture below), an original design that took him a year and a half of work to complete.

To see more of NightCold’s epic creations, visit his Facebook page and follow him on Instagram!

Photography: Shashin Kaihi

Photography: La Grotte de Karas

Photography: Sacrifice Dreamer

Photography: Kosupics

NightCold Créations as a judge at CCC17’s EuroCosplay Qualifier

Loic will be joining Calypsen as one of our Special Guest judges for the EuroCosplay Qualifier on Saturday and will be giving the following lectures:

Lectures

Saturday:

Topic: Crafting Armour with EVA Foam & Thermoplastics (joint lecture with Calypsen)
Duration: 1h30m

Sunday:

Topic: EVA Foam Priming and Painting
Duration: 1h

Artist Profile: Philip Krentos

22/08/2017 by Cyprus Comic Con

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back illustrator Philip Krentos!

Philip was born and raised in Cyprus. He is mostly self taught, but has had some great art teachers who pushed him to get the most out of his art. He is primarily inspired by manga and comic book art, but also takes a lot of his inspiration from video games. He has an architectural background, but quickly realised that game development was his true calling and will be starting his Master’s in Game Development this coming September. Currently, he works part-time as a storyboarder, as well as a commission artist.

Make sure to visit Philip’s page on Facebook to see more of his work!

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