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Artist Profile: Siadora Papatheodorou


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


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


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’.

Special Guest: Gilbert Simon


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Cyprus Comic Con has the honour of announcing multi-talented artist Gilbert Simon as one of its Special Guests for this year’s convention!

The Artist

Hailing from Beirut, Lebanese Franco-Armenian artist Gilbert Simon is known for being a semi-finalist on the 8th season of the middle eastern version of talent show ‘Star Academy’. He is a writer, composer and music producer as well a cartoonist, a voice-over artist and actor. 

He is the creator and Father of  “Mwet©” and is currently working on the very 1st comic book project for the character, entitled “Mwet and the Seagulls” in both English and French, with an internationally humorous and adventurous spirit, suitable for all ages. The comic book is expected to be released sometime in 2017.

The Cover Art for ‘Asterix and the Picts’

Asterix and the Picts is the 35th book in the Asterix Series, and is the first book to be written by someone other than René Goscinny or Albert Uderzo.

It was written by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad, with the 1st prize winning Limited Edition Cover created and imagined by Gilbert Simon, chosen by Albert Uderzo himself!


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Featured Participant: Powersound


Another great participating store of this year’s Cyprus Comic Con is Powersound!

Powersound_FINALPowersound is High End Audio/Video shop that operates in the field for High End Home Audio and Car Audio products since 2004.

With outmost respect to detail and quality, Powersound distributes and install the Following esteemed Brands for Home Audio: Focal, Naim Audio, Cyrus Audio, The Chord Company, Yamaha and TAGA Harmony and for Car Audio: Focal, Kenwood and Alpine.

Powersound performs all Car Audio installations at our premises, which provide both a Showroom and a Workshop. There is also a dedicated Auditioning Room that you can test, compare and enjoy all our Home Hi-Fi products, and also take advantage of our Open Days that are held frequently, to get to know the products better, and interact with them.

Powersound holds frequent Gaming, Music, and Movie open days, where everyone is welcome!

For this Year’s Cyprus Comic Con we will be presenting the whole Headphone Series by Focal (Spirit One S, Spirit Classic, Spirit Professional and Sphear) and also the All in one Wireless Systems by Naim Audio, the Mu-so and Mu-so QB which were both awarded the prestigious EISA AWARD.

And last but not list, we will be giving away as promotional presents, some Focal Spirit One Headphones (159.00 Euros Each) and our Grand Price will be a Home Stereo Amplifier from Cyrus Audio, their Brand New CYRUS ONE! – Be Sure to Visit our Stand to get more information about how you can enter the draw!

Looking forward to see you all at Cyprus Comic Con 2016!

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