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Cyprus Comic Con welcomes talented illustrator and graffiti artist John Ermidis to this year’s Artists’ Alley!

John Ermidis, aka Epsilon, was born in Athens, where he is still based to this day. He graduated from Ornerakis School of Applied Arts and currently works as a freelance graphic designer, while he dedicates his spare time to drawing comics and illustrations, as well as graffiti art.

At Comicdom Con Athens 2013, John collaborated with artist Gemo (a good friend and colleague) and self-published their first fanzine, starring 3 bad-ass unicorn characters (!), called “The Abominates”. In 2015, Epsilon presented two personal projects, titled “Doodles Inside my Head #1”, and “Zu & Zuni: Zuzu’s Rescue #1“. More recently, at Comicdom Con 2017, Epsilon and Gemo released the second part of their collaborative fanzine, The Abominates, with the title “Worse Than Hell”.

If you are curious to see more of Epsilon’s work, make sure to check him our on Behance and Facebook!

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).

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.