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Featured Sponsor: GeekOtopos

23/08/2016 by

10577204_1541799072799705_2943606150086604915_nCyprus Comic Con is pleased to announce GeekOtopos as one of our sponsors for this year’s event!

Geekotopos is an open-source collaborative hive specializing in bringing creative freelancers together in a co-working environment. Filmmakers, graphic designers, video gamer developers, comic book artists and anyone who works in storytelling mediums can join and take residency in GeekOtopos to develop current and future projects.

Make sure to follow GeekOtopos and its creative projects on Facebook!

The collaborative offers pre-production development assistance for low-budget feature films, shorts, documentaries video games, graphic novels and TV shows for festival circulation, potential Cinema, Web and Video-On-Demand distribution.

GeekOtopos is also an on-line geek-media aggregator with its own YouTube channel focusing in all things Geeky: Movies, Tv Series, Comic Books, Video Games and Gadgets. Through the channel, GeekOtopos residents can also create specialized content. Its social media pages acts a news hub for all geek-culture matters and also feature special reports on nerdy local events.

As a content creator, GeekOtopos focuses on alternative media creation and projects targeted at pop-culture enthusiasts and not only. Film, VOD, web, video game and app productions using our talent pool of GeekOtopos residents and off-side partners for personal or corporate projects. GeekOtopos is both a place and mind-set where you are not constrained by routine and creativity blocks. We aim at networking and stimulating freelance and small business creatives to create and distribute amazingly cool geeky things.

At this years Cyprus Comic Con, GeekOtopos co-produced CCC16 official trailer and will sponsor the Film Festival section by giving a price of 2500€ in production services to the director of the winning local short film. Furthermore, through out the 2-day event they will be live-broadcasting the highlights of the convention to Facebook and YouTube with special guest interviews and audience reactions!

Special Guest: Luca Pizzari

22/08/2016 by

LUCAS (1)Cyprus Comic Con is proud to announce comic book artist Luca Pizzari as one of our esteemed Special Guests for CCC16!

Luca discovered comics and fell in love with the art of the Kubert Family (among others) when he was 9 years old and decided he wanted to do comic books for a living straight away. He never looked back once and has been drawing ever since!

Now, much to his mother’s dismay (!), he is a full-time comic book artist based between London, Rome and Rio de Janeiro.

For more of Luca’s work, visit his personal blog and profile on Marvel Comics.

After a pretty useless – according to Luca – Master’s Degree in Illustration from the Camberwell College of Arts (part of the University of the Arts, London), and A LOT of time alone locked in his room drawing, he got his first few comic jobs in the Irish scene, of all places, with the 3-issues mini ‘Glimmer Man‘ for Atomic Diner and the O’Brien OGN Queen of Storms.

Soon after, a life changing encounter with Marvel artist Ed McGuinness and editor Nick Lowe brought him his first Marvel assignment, the ‘Spider-Man Special 2015‘, followed by a year-and-half-long stint on ‘Secret Wars Journal #1‘, the ‘Secret Wars: Red Skull‘ mini series, and the ‘Black Knight‘ series which closed with issue #5.

Luca is currently drawing the ‘Sons Of Anarchy: Redwood Original‘ prequel comic series for BOOM! Studios.

Artist Profile: Leonidas Stivaktis

22/08/2016 by

Meet our next Featured Artist for CCC16, comics creator Leonidas Stivaktis!

Leonidas was born in Athens and uninterestingly (according to him!), spent most of his life there. He doodled his way through school, eventually deciding to accept his fate and study comics and illustration at Ornerakis School of Applied Arts, as well as creative writing in the Kapodistrian University of Athens.

For more of Leonidas’ work, visit his page on Facebook.

He has worked in comics and illustration since 2008, mostly working for children’s books and personal projects. Leonidas has been taking part in comic conventions showcasing his work since 2013, so far counting more than eleven issues of comics and zines. He has worked as an art teacher for children aged 6-12 and a graphic designer, and currently he is freelancing as a comic maker and illustrator. Other artistic projects he is currently working on include tattooing, concept art and art journaling. If he ever decides to grow up, he wants to study marine biology and preferably make even more comics!

Artist Profile: David Selwood

21/08/2016 by

Our next Featured Artist is the talented David Selwood, illustrator of the graphic novel ‘Aphrodite – The Naked Truth’, Cyprus’ very first adult comic!

To find out more about ‘Aphrodite – The Naked Truth’, visit the official website and Facebook page (explicit content – 18+ only).

The Artist

David Selwood was born in London and in the 1960’s attended Ealing Art College, London, under the direction of Roy Ascott and his team including artists such as R. B. Kitaj and the Cohen Brothers. David learned skills that were to be the foundations of his work that you see today. After a degree course in industrial design at the Central School St Martins, London, he won a travel bursary with one of his designs, enabling him to travel in Europe.

On his return he continued his career as an industrial designer, specialising in the field of lighting and received an award for one his designs from the British Design Council. After building his own natural stone house in rural Wiltshire, he was looking for a new project and encouraged by friends, David returned to his love of art and drawing.

After several exhibitions, and illustrating various children’s books, he recently completed his first graphic novel ‘Aphrodite the Naked Truth’, soon to be followed by HP Lovecraft’s stories ‘The Dunwich Horror’ and ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ with others to follow.

For more info on David Selwood visit his personal website and follow him on Facebook.

The Author

For the last ten years, Christiane Sternberg (b.1965, Berlin), has been living as a writer and journalist in Cyprus, where she has found inspiration, as well as in the travel guides by Marco Polo, Merian and Dumont for many of her short and long stories, including them in her blog and also in her own books.

Her story about the ancient Aphrodisia inspired the artist David Selwood. And together they created the Graphic Novel ‘Aphrodite – The Naked Truth’.

Visit Christiane’s page on Amazon.

 

Bus Tickets Information

20/08/2016 by

Buses from Paphos & Limassol will be available on both Comic Con dates, to take you to and from the convention venue at Filoxenia Conference Centre, Nicosia.

The following ticket prices are per day and include the return journey. There are no one-way tickets being sold as this is a fixed rate. Buses will arrive directly to Filoxenia. Please note that for arrival on Saturday and departure on Sunday you will need to purchase both a Saturday ticket and a Sunday ticket.

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Bus Ticket Prices

Paphos:  9 euros
Limassol: 7 euros

Pick-up/drop-off points:

Paphos – GSK (Pafiako) Stadium

Limassol – Tsireio Stadium

Timetable:

Paphos bus sets off at exactly 09:00AM.

Limassol bus sets off at exactly 10:00AM.

 

At night, all the buses will leave for the return journey to the other cities at the following times:

On Saturday the return journey will begin at 20:00 (8PM)
On Sunday the return journey will begin at 21:00 (9PM)

 

Get your Bus Ticket

You can also find more public transport & general travel information on our access page.