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Special Guest: Ali Cosplay & Props

12/02/2019 by

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CCC is proud to announce that its third Cosplay Special Guest for CCC19 is the talented Ali Cosplay & Props!

Ali is a cosplayer and prop maker from the Czech Republic. He started cosplaying in 2014 and he chooses characters mainly from video games. He specialises in crafting armours and painting. Ali does not only enjoy cosplaying and prop making, but he also enjoys teaching others and sharing his expertise.

Visit Ali’s Facebook, Instagram and YouTube channel to see more of his intricate work!

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He had the opportunity to work with THQ Nordic and be the official “War” cosplayer for Darksiders 3. He attended the following conventions as “War”: “Gamescom” in Germany, “PAX West” in Seattle,USA, “IgroMir Expo” in Russia and “Paris Game Week” in Paris, France.

Ali also loves competitions – he won Season 8 of European Cosplay Gathering (2018) at Japan’s Expo Ichigo stage with his Smite group, Germia and Ketrin. He also placed 3rd at Magic Monaco competition and also 3rd at Cosplay World Masters. In 2017 Ali represented the Czech Republic in the EuroCosplay Championship as Helis from Horizon Zero Dawn.

He loves working with new materials and trying new techniques. He enjoys a good whiskey and prefers dogs ?

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Ali as a judge at the CCC19 EuroCosplay Qualifier

Ali will be one of our Special Guest judges for the EuroCosplay Qualifier on Saturday and will also be hosting the two following panels:

  • Saturday (20th of April)

Topic:  It’s All About The FOAM!

  • Sunday (21st of April)

Topic: Battle Damage And Weathering

*Full info of panels to be confirmed once the Cyprus Comic Con 2019 schedule is announced

Yuncumber (Marina Alexikou)

08/02/2019 by

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 more.

She has been drawing ever since she could remember, but she started trying her luck with conventions and exhibitions the past couple of years. She has taken part in the Run Thessaloniki: Anime Con in 2016, as well as the 3rd and 4th Comic Con Thessaloniki. Moreover, this year she joined a few Unofficial Fanzines for the anime/manga “My Hero Academia” and “Haikyuu!!”.

Finally, Marina and her best friend have been trying to write a manga story that they hope to publish one day!

You can follow Marina’s Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Deviantart account to see more of her work!

Mion (Hermionie Antarti)

08/02/2019 by

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 her into the culture.

She slowly started developing a fondness for artists such as Hayao Miyazaki or even more well known artists such as Van Gogh. Moreover, a big inspiration for Hermionie’s art-style would be Audra Auclair who mixes the geeky and cartoon like style with more traditional aspects.

As far as her current projects, she mainly draws her own creations in a traditional style but she can never seem to get rid of the tendency to draw some fan-art once in a while! She generally likes drawing characters with her own interpretation but of course sometimes she draws just for the fun of it!

Make sure to visit Hermione’s Instagram and Facebook to see more of her work!

 

Un Sogno (Marianna Pagkratidou & Eleana Vasiliades)

08/02/2019 by

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 Cognitive and Educational Psychology in 2015 and is currently a PhD Psychology candidate at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests are in the field of cognitive and experimental psychology and her focus is on the study of human spatial memory. Marianna’s current research explores how we encode spatial information in our memory through narratives and, more specifically, through comics. However, she is not only interested in comics for academic purposes. As a creatively curious individual, she has recently written her own comic, Un Sogno, which means “a dream” in Italian. A dream coming true, and that is only the beginning!

Illustrator

Eleana is a 15-year-old aspiring artist. Born in Nicosia, Cyprus, Eleana has been interested in art from a very young age and started taking drawing lessons at the age of 5. She enjoys watching films, listening to music, dancing, travelling and photography. She became interested in comics after attending a comic book illustration workshop at the Art Hub Visual Arts Laboratories, where she had the opportunity to collaborate with comic book writer Marianna Pagkratidou. She found the whole experience fascinating and is looking forward to working on more comic books in the future.

If you want a copy of Un Sogno message their Facebook page to get one!

Special Guest: Ross Mullan, GoT’s White Walker

05/02/2019 by

Ross Mullan

Game of Thrones’ “White Walker”

Special Guest for Cyprus Comic Con 2019!

Cyprus Comic Con has the pleasure of announcing the Canadian-British actor and puppeteer Ross Mullan – mostly known for his appearance in Game of Thrones as the “White Walker” – as one of its Special Guests for this year’s event!

In-Booth Signing, Workshop & Panel information *

Booth Prices

  • Autograph: €15

 

GoT themed Panel

  • Duration: 1 hour

Workshop – Becoming a Monster

Get a glimpse of how to become a creature specialist at the two exclusive movement based classes taught by Ross Mullan.

One workshop class will be held per day and both classes are limited to just 30 people per class. Attendance is free – book your spot online!

Book your Workshop Spot

*Time & Location to be confirmed once the Cyprus Comic Con 2019 schedule is announced.

How it all started

Ross Mullan was born on January 5th 1967 in Montreal, Canada. Mullan joined Children’s Theatre in the West End of Montreal and later on he completed the theatre programs at John Abbott College and Ryerson University.

After graduating from University, Mullan moved to Ottawa and began working at the Odyssey Theatre. He started his performing career by working mostly in mask and physical theatre companies.

Watch Ross Mullan’s Creature showreel

Moving to the UK

Mullan moved to the UK after going there for holiday and has been living there for over 20 years. Once he moved to the UK he started doing tours with theatre companies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Some of the productions he has participated in include David Copperfield, Gulliver’s Travels and Sherlock Holmes.

He has also portrayed Orsino in Bath Theatre Royal’s production of Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night and the title character of The Selfish Giant for Leicester Haymarket Theatre. Moreover, he brought to New York City the critically acclaimed play Thick from the Edinburgh festival.

Mullan transitioned to the small screen when the effects department of the show Dinotopia was looking for someone to animate a dinosaur character and make it act like a person, so they chose him for the part. He acted in a British children’s show called Numberjacks (2006) as the “Numbertaker” which is a parody of the “Undertaker” who removes numbers. He also does the voice works for “Nev the Bear” on CBBC’s Bear Behaving Badly (2007-2010).

Ross Mullan as the“White Walker”


Game of Thrones

The prosthetic supervisor of Game of Thrones, Conor O’Sullivan, approached Mullan regarding the role of “White Walker”. The two of them had worked previously together for a film called Clash of the Titans (2010) where Mullan played the role of “Pemphredo”, a character that proved to require an abundance of prosthetics. It took a team of 4 people and 5 hours to completely finish the creation of the “White Walker”, which is no surprise since only a small amount of CGI was used for the steam coming of the character’s body and making his eyes blue. His impressive height 6”4 (193cm) and his sword fighting skills were definitely an advantage for Mullan in terms of landing the part, but he had to undertake five months of horse-riding training in order to prepare himself for the role. However, the most challenging part was the fact that the “White Walker”, did not have any dialogue or lines so Mullan had to bring to life the character through his posture and movements.

Recent works

Apart from his role as the “White Walker” in the Game of Thrones series he has also played the role of one of the werewolves in the indie horror monster movie Howl (2015).  Finally, Mullan has also appeared in episodes of Doctor Who as “The Silence” in “The Time of The Doctor” (2013), “The Teller” in “Time Heist” (2014) and “Wraith” in “Hell Bent” (2015).

Ross Mullan as “The Silence” in Doctor Who
Ross Mullan as “The Teller” in Doctor Who
Ross Mullan as “Pemphredo” in Clash of the Titans