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Artist Profile: Stavros Damos

07/06/2017 by

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

02/06/2017 by

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 Comics‘ Transformers 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

27/05/2017 by

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!

 

Artist Profile: Nicolas Stefadouros

25/05/2017 by

We are delighted to announce the first Featured Artist for Cyprus Comic Con 2017, comic book illustrator Nicolas Stefadouros, who is returning to our convention for a second consecutive year!

Nicolas was born in Athens, in 1980. His parents were born in Alexandria, Egypt, with roots from Kalymnos and Cyprus. He originally studied Civil Engineering in the N.T.U.A., and subsequently worked as an engineer, but was soon drawn in to the field of illustration and comics. Since then, Nicolas has produced illustrations for major companies such as Desyllas Games, MAC Cosmetics and FAB Sportswear and created comics and editorial cartoons for magazines and newspapers such as “Casa e Gente”, “CITY FREE PRESS Cyprus”, “The Machine” etc., as well as various websites, including TVXS.gr, SOCOMIC.gr and ANTOULASTORIES.gr.

Nicolas has also illustrated for various browser games, books, fairy tales, CD covers, and posters for great Greek artists like Giannis Zouganelis and Stamatis Kraounakis. He studied comics in Vakalo College of Art and Design, under the guidance of Nikos Koutsis.

To see more illustrations by Nicolas Stefadouros, pay a visit to his website and follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!

Nicolas Stefadouros’ work abroad include digital inking for Chozen Studios comics in Canada, participation in the 3-day conference on 50 years of ASPHER as the official cartoonist of the event in Athens 2016. Currently he is illustrating a graphic novel (script: Effi Gavrilou) for Neurinox and University of Geneva. He frequently collaborates with SOCOMIC.gr of ION, TEESNEY.com where he creates designs for t-shirts, FAB Sportswear, and has also created the graphics for the TV show “Animaniac” of ALPHA TV.

Some of his recent publications include OMG, Zombie! #1 (Webcomics 2014), Memory Lane (Jemma Press 2015), OMG, Zombie! #2 (Webcomics 2015), Gramers: The Comics (Webcomics 2016), Out of the Blue (Neurinox 2016) and OMG, Zombie! #3 (Webcomics 2016). Nicolas was also a participating artist in GC Fanzine (GreekComics 2015), Say it with Comics (ADDArt 2016), Comic Book Bubble (CBB 2016) Urban Mysteries #2 (ADDArt 2016)

Nicolas received numerous awards in various art competitions, including the 3rd prize at Artifesto, One Salonica Outlet Mall in 2015, the 3rd prize at Ornerakis School of Art in 2014, the 2nd prize at the 2nd National Cartoon Contest of Nafplio in 2014, as well as the Best New Artist Award at Comicdom Con Athens 2016!

Artist Profile: Costas Sklavenitis

23/05/2017 by

Cyprus Comic Con is pleased to present its next Featured Artist for CCC17, illustrator and comic artist Costas Sklavenitis!

Costas Sklavenitis was born in Lefkada in 1984. He studied at the department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences of the University of Ioannina and continued with a Master of Arts in Design at AKTO – Middlesex University.

In 2009 he started working as an illustrator and comic artist. He has collaborated, among other things, with the magazine “Ταχυδρόμος”, the newspaper “ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ” and the publishers “Έννοια”. Since 2010, he has been working as a cartoonist for the newspaper “Τα Νέα”. He also collaborates with the magazine of Books’ Journal and socomic.gr, for which he creates comics and illustrations.

Check out ERT channel’s feature on Costas’ work, by visiting this link. You can see more of his comics and illustrations on his profile on Facebook, as well as on the newspaper “Τα Νέα” and of course socomic.gr.

He has published the following comics: Σαν Όνειρο (“Like a Dream” published by Webcomics), Σπάρτακος (“Spartacus” – 2 issues in collaboration with D. Savvaides. published by AddArt), Εικόνες στα Σύννεφα – “Images in the Clouds” and Στη Σκιά της Ακρόπολης -“In the Shadow of Acropolis” (published by Jemma Press).

Costas has participated in various exhibitions and festivals, both in Greece and abroad, including the Athens Video Art Festival in 2008 and 2010, the Milano Film Festival 2008 and the Leskovac Comics Festival 2014, where he won the 2nd prize for the best short story in the Balkans, and more.