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Artist Profile: Nikoletta Kyprianou

11/07/2017 by

CCC17 welcomes back talented illustrator Nikoletta Kyprianou!

Nikoletta Kyprianou is a freelance artist and illustrator from Nicosia, with a BA Degree from Middlesex University. Nikoletta really enjoys creating intricate pen drawings of weird and out of this world characters. She grew up watching old horror and fantasy movies and reading books and comics like Shivers, Goosebumps and Tales from the Crypt, which eventually inspired her art. Her work is all hand drawn with some final Photoshop touches, depending on the commission.

Make sure to visit Nikoletta’s website, as well as to follow her on Facebook, in order to stay up to date with her work and upcoming projects!

For the past 6 years, Nikoletta has been the art director for Power of the Night Festival and most of her current work includes, CD covers and booklets, concert and event posters and t-shirt design for many bands. Nikoletta has also illustrated the educational, children’s book ‘Animal Protest’, by Elena Erotokritou. Her work was also published at Delivering Views #11: From Cyprus With Love”, Book Launch, in the first two issues of ‘Aegis’ Magazine and her work will also be featured at the third issue of Silvae Magazine this August.

Nikoletta was included in the 2008 D&AD Awards as an In-book Selection, for creating a striking new look for the Space Opera book series, for the Orion Publishing Group. She was chosen amongst the best new-comer artists worldwide, for the Illustration category. She has been a part of various exhibitions such as the 2008 New Blood D&AD Awards Exhibition, Ark – Under the Trees, Cyprus Comic Con 2015 and 2016, the 9th Annual Akamantis Exhibition, the 2016 Nicosia Pop Up Festival and the group exhibition ‘Love Bytes‘.

Additionally, Nikoletta took part in a project by Write CY (The Comic Book Project), in which a group of young authors and artists combined their forces to create original comic book stories that were exhibited at the 2016 Cyprus Comic Con and if all goes well, why not also abroad!

Artist Profile: Melandros Ganas

10/07/2017 by

Our next Featured Artist for CCC17 is Greek comics writer Melandros Ganas!

Melandros Ganas was born in Larissa, Greece. He has always been passionate about comics – reading and collecting them ever since he can remember! Melandros has been actively contributing to the Greek comic book scene for many years, as a long-time moderator at Greek Comics forum and more recently at Comicdom Con Athens, as he is responsible of the area for self-published works and fanzines. He is also the creator of Small Press Comics, a blog which catalogues the small press comics released in Greece. For the last four years, he has been a permanent columnist on Comicdom Con’s website.

His loyalty and dedication to comics, led him to founding a small publishing press, named “Εκδόσεις του Κάμπου” (Kampos Publications). “Εκδόσεις του Κάμπου” has produced more than 60 published comics until this day. In 2015, the comic “Freakshow” (script by Melandros and art by Nick Giamalakis), won the first prize in the category of Self-Publishing, the newly established institution of Greek Comic Awards at Comicdom Con Athens.

To find out more about Melandros and “Εκδόσεις του Κάμπου” visit their Facebook page.

Special Guest: Gerald Home

07/07/2017 by

Cyprus Comic Con has the pleasure of announcing Gerald Home, actor of TWO roles in ‘Star Wars: Return of the Jedi’, as one of our Special Guests for this year’s event!

Gerald Home was born on October 18, 1950, in Belfast of North Ireland. At the age of 16, he emigrated to Australia with his family where he made his first steps towards acting while still in university. He spent 3 years as an actor and teacher in Australia before moving to London, UK to study at the Drama Studio, from where he graduated in 1977.

 

On the Big Screen

Gerald has had an wide and varied career on the big screen and is most notably known for his two roles in the third installment of the original trilogy of the Star Wars franchise, titled ‘Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi’ (1983), where he played Tessek-Squid Head (Jabba the Hutt’s accountant!) and the Mon Calamari Officer serving Admiral Ackbar!

He is still very active within the Star Wars community and has appeared at many conventions and events, meeting Star Wars fans around the globe. He is an Honorary Member of numerous fan groups and has had a strong online presence in Star Wars forums, as shown by his long-running popular online thread called ‘ROTJ History: Gerald Home’s Creature Info’, which has in-depth, inside information and backstage photos from ‘Return of the Jedi’, not seen anywhere else online!

Gerald was also a puppeteer on cult musical horror comedy ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ (1986), operating Audrey II, the flesh eating plant! More recently film works include ‘London Boulevard’ (2010), directed by William Monahan, Hideo Nakata’s ‘Chatroom’ (2010) and ‘Where I Belong’(2014), directed by Fritz Urschitz.

TV Appearances

His many TV appearances include ‘Casualty’, ‘Jenny’s War’, ‘Scarlet and Back’, ‘Keeping Mum’, ‘Harry’s Mad’, ‘Shane’, ‘Time Gentlemen Please’, ‘Situation Critical’, ‘Paul Dreams of Bette’ and the ‘Boot Street Band’. Gerald also worked as a puppeteer on ‘Spitting Image’.

 

Mr. Muscle

Gerald was the original “Mr. Muscle” in the long-running series of Mr. Muscle TV commercials (a brand of hard-surface cleaners) in the early 90’s, which were shown all around Europe and as far away as South Africa, Australia and New Zealand! His portrayal of the character brought a lot of laughter and was loved by many generations.

He has also made TV commercials for Holland, Germany, Ireland and Belgium.

 

Theatre

In London West End, he appeared in Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘The Blue Angel’ at the Gielgud Theatre, ‘The Arabian Nights’ at the Arts Theatre and for a year in the farce ‘No Sex Please – We’re British’ at the Novello Theatre. Furthermore, he appeared in ‘A Christmas Carol in Oxford’, ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’ in Exeter, ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and a season of new plays in Milford Haven and national tours of ‘Dreams of Anne Frank’, ‘Salad Days’ and ‘Bell, Book & Candle’.

In Wimbledon, London, where he lives, he has appeared in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at the Wimbledon Theatre as well as in 10 plays at the Polka Theatre. His favourite roles at Polka include Dr. Livesey in ‘Treasure Island’ and Professor Moriarty in a new Sherlock Holmes play written by Philip Pullman.

Artist Profile: David Selwood

05/07/2017 by

Illustrator David Selwood is returning to Cyprus Comic Con’s Artists’ Alley together with his co-creator, author Christiane Sternberg.

Together, they created a graphic novel titled ‘Aphrodite – The Naked Truth’, Cyprus’ very first adult comic!

 

‘Aphrodite the Naked Truth’

Cyprus’ first erotic graphic novel, ‘Aphrodite the Naked Truth’ is the creation of artist David Selwood and author Christiane Sternberg. The novel tells of the Goddess of Love and the ancient festivities in her honour, through an amusing story, full of wit and frivolous charm!

To learn more about ‘Aphrodite the Naked Truth’, visit its official website (explicit content – 18+ only).

THE ARTIST

David Selwood was born in London and in the 1960’s attended Ealing Art College, London, under the direction of Roy Ascott and his team including artists such as R. B. Kitaj and the Cohen Brothers. David learned skills that were to be the foundations of his work that you see today. After a degree course in industrial design at the Central School St Martins, London, he won a travel bursary with one of his designs, enabling him to travel in Europe.

On his return he continued his career as an industrial designer, specialising in the field of lighting and received an award for one his designs from the British Design Council. After building his own natural stone house in rural Wiltshire, he was looking for a new project and encouraged by friends, David returned to his love of art and drawing.

After several exhibitions, and illustrating various children’s books, he completed his first graphic novel ‘Aphrodite the Naked Truth’, soon to be followed by HP Lovecraft’s stories ‘The Dunwich Horror’ and ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ with others to follow.

For more info on David Selwood visit his personal website and follow him on Facebook.

THE AUTHOR

For the last ten years, Christiane Sternberg (b.1965, Berlin), has been living as a writer and journalist in Cyprus, where she has found inspiration, as well as in the travel guides by Marco Polo, Merian and Dumont for many of her short and long stories, including them in her blog and also in her own books.

Her story about the ancient Aphrodisia inspired the artist David Selwood. And together they created the Graphic Novel ‘Aphrodite – The Naked Truth’.

Visit Christiane’s page on Amazon.

Artist Profile: Copper Mouflon

03/07/2017 by

We are pleased to welcome back the talented creative duo of Copper Mouflon to the Artists’ Alley of CCC17!

Copper Mouflon is a collaborative project between writer Christopher Demetriou and illustrator Stella Violari, for the creation of comics and graphic novels that will have you turning for the next page (or scrolling for the next frame) with anticipation and excitement!

THE WRITER

Christopher Demetriou, proclaims a passion for stories of all types and genres and is always on the lookout for a good twist. When not writing stories, he enjoys contemplating the ceiling (apparently it helps with his creativity or something), winning every single board game ever thanks to his ridiculously unbelievable luck with the dice (!), and munching on whatever’s left in the fridge.

 

THE ARTIST

Stella Violari, studied illustration in the UK and completed her masters in the lovely and sunny Cyprus. She has been in love with drawing ever since she could hold a pencil (proof: her mother cries every time someone mentions “white walls” at home) and she is über passionate about games (though admittedly, she can’t beat Chris at board games), comics, anime, cartoons and movies. In short: if it comes on a screen, she’ll take it. Make sure to visit Stella’s Facebook page to see more from her personal projects and illustrations.

To see more from Copper Mouflon, visit their website and follow their page on Facebook!

Work by Copper Mouflon so far includes:

“Kingdom of the Red Rose”, Chapter 1: “The Reaper’s Choice”
“Kingdom of the Red Rose”, Chapter 2: “Train Wreck”
“Stay Centered” – a short illustrated story.
“Last Moments” – a one-shot 12-page mini comic created in collaboration with WriteCy during a local comics writing class.
“Trial Run – Time Travel” part of an anthology with Arledge Comics, a US based independent creator.

Currently Copper Mouflon are working on the third chapter of their ongoing online comic, Kingdom of the Red Rose, titled “Guardian Angel Nathaniel”, as well as on a one-shot 12-page mini comic titled “The Pernach Master” and another one-shot graphic novel, “A Demon’s Drive”, based on the world of George Belaouris.

Do you have any ideas for stories or want to spill your heart out over any of Copper Mouflon’s work that you have read?
Hit them up on social media! They love chatting with their readers and fans!