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Artist Profile: George Komiotis


Comic book artist George Komiotis is returning to Cyprus Comic Con as a Featured Artist!

George Komiotis has been a freelance artist since 1998. After completing his studies at Ornerakis Applied Arts school, he has since collaborated with several publications, magazines and newspapers, creating comics, strips, illustrations, portraits, children’s books, education books as well as animations.

Visit George’s Deviant Art profile to see more of his illustrations!

George collaborated with the magazine “PC Master”, for which he created the comics “Όχι άλλο κάρβουνο” (a Greek idiom which translates to “enough is enough”) and “Τα παιδιά του λαού” (“Children of the People”). He also collaborated with the magazine “Computer για όλους” (“Computer for everyone”), creating the comics “Alt F4”. He created two comics for insert “9” of newspaper “Ελευθεροτυπία”, called “Ψυχάκιας” (“Psycho”) and “Μούφα” (“Sham”). Additionally, he has collaborated with the insert “Ερευνητές” (“Investigators”) of “Καθημερινή” newspaper, for which he created weekly illustrations and portraits, comics and strips (from 2004 to 2015), as well as many other magazines such as “Maxim”, “Γαλέρα”, “Mετρό”, etc.

He has published two comics, “Ψόφα” (Comicdom Press), as well as “Μούφα” (Webcomics.gr).

Artist Profile: Kostas Nikellis


Talented illustrator and concept artist Kostas Nikellis is returning to Cyprus Comic Con as one of our Featured Artists!

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, in historical magazines, newspapers, books, electronic games cover boxes, card games and more.

Make sure to visit Kostas’ profile on DeviantArt for more of his illustrations!

Kostas has been active for several years in the web-games graphics design industry, along with his freelance work in illustration and he is currently working on his upcoming comic book!

Artist Profile: Stavros Damos


Introducing our next Featured Artist for CCC17, talented illustrator Stavros Damos!

Stavros was born in Thessaloniki in 1977, where he also studied Graphic Design at the AAS College of Art & Design. For the last few years, his main professional activities and his specialisation, are focused on illustration. His clients consist of primarily advertising agencies, publishing houses and magazines, in Greece as well as abroad. Stavros spends his free time in a continued creative quest for new ideas and techniques! He says his love for the arts in general is what gives him strength and fuels his optimism for the future. He currently lives and works in Thessaloniki.

Check out Stavros’ unique illustrations on his profile on Behance and make sure to follow his work on Instagram!

Special Guest: Liam Shalloo


Cyprus Comic Con 2017 is delighted to announce that the talented comic artist Liam Shalloo will be one of its esteemed Special Guests!

Liam Shalloo is a London-born colourist, best-known for his work on various Transformers projects since 2006, as well as IDW’s Doctor Who and G.I. Joe.

He describes himself as “the bandanna-wearing artist with a decade in both the Comic Book & Video Game industry – wielder of big mouth and pencil, using both liberally for titles such as Transformers, Spider-Man, Sony PlayStation, Harry Potter, God Of War, SingStar, Godzilla and Doctor Who, as well as producing variant posters for Picture House Cinema”!

To see more of Liam Shalloo’s work, visit his DeviantArt profile and follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Visit his online shop for a selection of prints, posters and original sketches!

Comic Art

Shalloo has worked with Penciller Simon Williams on the cover art for the Marvel and Clearvision classic animation DVD box sets of both the 90’s and 60’s Spider-Man Cartoons, as well as Season 1 Vol. 2, Season 2 Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 and Season 3 Vol. 1 Vol. 2 of the 60’s show.

He was the colourist for a lot of IDW projects, including Transformers Spotlights: Hot Rod (which was also his debut!), Doubledealer, Grimlock and Mirage (Cover), as well as Beast Wars, Transformers Animated the Arrival, Godzilla, G.I. Joe and Doctor Who.

He also worked on a number of Titan ComicsTransformers comic books as well as a series of Transformers – I Can Read’ children story books by Harper Trophy / HarperCollins Publishers.

 

Video Game Art

More recently, he has been active in the video game industry, in a variety of roles, including graphic designer, UI artist, concept artist and storyboard artist for Sony PlayStation.

He has worked on various popular video game titles, including SingStar, DanceStar, Diggs NightCrawler, Harry Potter’s Wonderbook: Book of Potions and God of War.

Furthermore, he has worked on a number of casual simulation games, including Train Sim, Flight Sim, Euro Fishing and Pure Pool.

 

Cinema

Liam Shalloo illustrated variant posters for Picture House Cinema, for the blockbusters  Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2, The Wolverine, Star Wars, Suicide Squad and Beauty and the Beast.

Pre-Order Sketch List

Liam Shalloo’s Sketch List is now open! Liam has over 50 sketch cover titles to choose from (a free comic with every sketch) but can only bring a limited amount of stock to Cyprus so make sure you pre-order what you want! You can order your prints via iamshalloo@gmail.com.

Artist Profile: Tony Tzanoukakis


Meet our next Featured Artist for CCC17, Greek-Australian illustrator, Tony Tzanoukakis!

Tony has been working as a professional illustrator for the last 6 years. Born in Australia, in 1984, he quickly showed his drawing skills at the early age of 6 by winning a local art competition! At the age of 10, he returned to Greece with his family where he is currently living and working. He completed his studies in Graphic Design at the Technological Institution of Athens in 2008.

Make sure to visit Tony’s DeviantArt profile for more of his illustrations!

He is mostly recognised for his pin-up themed illustrations, where he combines characteristics of comic book art, together with the beauty of the female form. Over the years, he has created hundreds of images, with over 30 illustrations for e-book and novel covers, for self-published authors. He also maintains a partnership as an illustrator with the Greek board game company ‘Desyllas Games‘ and online game ‘Criminal Case‘. His future goal is to break into the world of comics as a penciler, colourist and cover artist!