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Special Guest: Manos Lagouvardos

24/08/2016 by

MANOS LAGOUVARDOS (2)Cyprus Comic Con proudly announces comics creator Manos Lagouvardos as one of its esteemed Special Guests for CCC16!

Manos was born in 1981 in Athens, and has a degree of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. However, cartoons, animation and comics were always some of his main interests along with his education.

Visit Manos’ Facebook page to see more samples of his work.

In 2001 he participated in the Pan-hellenic Comic Competition, which was hosted by Eleftherotypia, in which he won the 1st Honour. He has also participated in workshops at the school of AKTO, and since 2009 and each year henceforth, Manos joins with other comic artists in various Comic Conventions across the world. His biggest essay is the comicbook “Galaxia” (Comicworld Editions), an adventure with plenty of action. Recently he also self-published the award-winning teen comic “The Teenies”, with lots of pranks and romance.

Currently, he lives and works in Athens as a freelancer, drawing all sorts of paper heroes for advertising and publishing companies.

PES 2016 and LoL 1v1 Tournament Information

24/08/2016 by

Two of the videogame tournaments that will be taking place at this year’s Comic Con are the 1v1 League of Legends and the PES 2016 1v1 tournaments, both organised by Gosu Net Gaming Spot!

1v1 League of Legends Tournament Information

GOSU (2)Are you the best in your lane? We are giving you the chance to prove it!

Gosu Net Gaming Spot proudly announces the very first 1v1 League of Legends tournament that will take place on Saturday 03/09) in “Elia” room at Filoxenia Conference Centre! For more information and to register for the tournament, interested parties can contact the organisers at 99752152.

Μap: Howling Abyss ( ARAM )

Mode: Blind Pick + 3 Ban in chat!

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PES 2016 Tournament Information

On Sunday (04/09), GOSU Net Gaming Spot will be organising a PES 2016 1v1 tournament in “Elia” room. For more information and to register for the PES tournament, interested parties can contact the organisers at 99752152 and 99985945.

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 About GOSU Net Gaming Spot

gosu5If you are looking for a place where you can spend some casual time playing your favourite videogames, then Gosu Net Gaming Spot is just for you!

The net café is situated at 4 Spyrou Kyprianou Avenue, Mesa Geitonia, in Limassol.

It was created specifically for the online gaming lovers. At Gosu Net Gaming Spot, one can enjoy playing all the latest game titles together with their friends or even meet new people with the same videogames craze!

Contact Details: 99752152, 99985945

Visit Gosu Net Gaming Spot’s page on Facebook!

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Artist Profile: Siadora Papatheodorou

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Young illustrator Siadora Papatheodorou will be one of our Featured Artists for CCC16!

Siadora was born in 1994 just outside of Athens, Greece, where she has been living for the past few years. She loved to draw from a very young age (mostly Pokémon and comics) and quickly realised that drawing was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. She decided to follow her dream of studying art and enrolled at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Siadora mainly creates comics and illustrations and says that telling stories through her artwork is what she enjoys the most.

You can see more of Siadora’s creations on her Tumblr and Instagram pages.

In 2015, she completed her first comic book titled ‘4,5 SEASONS’, a collection of four-and-a-half fantasy stories, which she self-published and presented at ComicDom Con in Athens. In 2016, she returned with another self-published project titled ‘Danae thrown to the Wolves’, a (slightly longer) fantasy story. She is currently working as a freelance illustrator, creating concept art for videogames and designs for various projects, however professionally she wishes to work in the comic book industry. In the meantime, she has been testing a few ideas for new comics, two out of which are currently under way and – you guessed it – are also fantasy-themed! Maybe after these two she might consider trying out a different genre. In the far future, she would like to write a novel. And make even more comics, of course!

Siadora has been participating in various comic conventions all around Greece for the last two years and she is very excited to visit Cyprus for CCC16!

Featured Shop: Fingerprint Blockmountings

24/08/2016 by

Banner_ORG-01For a third year in a row, Fingerprint Blockmountings will be with us again, offering cool Blockmount and Coaster designs!

Using Vacuumed Hot press, Fingerprint Blockmountings preserve your personal photos, art prints, digital art, posters, and anything you can think of, with their unique process called Block Mounting. A process that binds any medium using high heat and pressure. It will marry the photograph together with the protective lamination, and the wood base. They can blockmount any sizes up to 160cm x 100cm, on 12mm of MDF wood.

This year they are upping their game with over 250 blockmounts and clocks, 400+ coasters and few surprises that they believe are going to be HUGE. Furthermore, they have incorporated metallic paper with their blockmounts that gives amazing shine on all the colours.

Last but not least, the store has revealed to us that they are preparing the biggest surprise yet which they will only unveil at their booth! According to Fingerprint Blockmountings, it’s such a big surprise that they had to rent a second booth space just to be able to fit it! That’s all we are going to hint at for now!

Visit the store’s website, as well as its page on Facebook and Instagram – or call 99 606626

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Artist Profile: Constantinos Hadjidemetri

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Meet our next Featured Artist for CCC16, talented illustrator Constantinos Hadjidemetri.

Constantinos received his BA in fine arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (Fine arts Accademy of Rome) in 2006. The same year he moved to Perugia where he studied a six-month intensive course of Italian language and culture at Universita per Stranieri di Perugia and by the end of that year, he temporarily moved to Cyprus. There, he participated at the first organised short film festival Ideodromio, in his hometown Limassol and later at the Short Film & Documentary Festival of Cyprus, in the categories of Short film and Animation and Student Fiction Film.

To learn more about Constantinos and his work, visit his website and Facebook page.

During 2006 and 2008 he has worked as a freelance illustrator and animator for the Eagle Casino Games and prepared a new short film for the Intransition exhibition at the National Centers for Contemporary Arts of Ekaterinburg and Moscow. During that period he also participated with a painting in The Red Cross Summer Exhibition at The Hague. Moving then to Spain, he undertook a postgraduate program in 2D & 3D Animation at Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and received his Masters in 2009. After his graduation he begun to work as a freelancer for various clients such as V5 & Cleanenergy in Barcelona, Tsiakkas Wineries and Gevorest in Cyprus. During the years 2013-16, he worked as an illustrator and animator at ZEDEM Media, a company specializing in educational video. Working under the label of ZEDEM, he created designs for companies such as ‘The School of Life’ and ‘TEDed’.