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Featured Sponsor: Hilton Cyprus

23/08/2016 by

Cyprus Comic Con is proud to announce Hilton Cyprus as one of our sponsors for this year’s event!

We would like to express our sincerest thanks and appreciation to Hilton Cyprus for supporting Cyprus Comic Con for a second consecutive year!

Hilton_Cyprus_4C (1)Make sure to you follow Hilton Cyprus on Facebook!

Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia is one of the longest running luxury hotels in Cyprus and the top choice for an enjoyable stay in the heart of the capital.

Located within easy reach of Nicosia’s city center, the historic Old City and the business district, the Hilton Cyprus hotel is the ideal place to stay while visiting Cyprus. Make the most of the Mediterranean climate as you cool off in the large outdoor pool or relax in the sun on your private balcony.

The Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia’s wide choice of leisure facilities, which include a fully equipped fitness center, squash courts and tennis courts will ensure that you can stay in shape during your visit. The hotel’s two bars and restaurants offer convenience, choice and the chance to indulge in a variety of settings.

Stay connected to family, friends and colleagues with the hotel’s business center and free WiFi in all public areas of the hotel. Upgrade to an Executive Room and enjoy complimentary access to the Executive Lounge. The hotel’s function spaces make the Hilton Cyprus an ideal choice as the venue for meetings, conferences and weddings in Nicosia.

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Artist Profile: Alexander Tellalis

23/08/2016 by

Talented illustrator and concept artist Alexander Tellalis will be returning to Cyprus Comic Con as one of our Featured Artists!

Alexander has been ‘painting’ digitally since 2013. Some art related interests of his include (but are not limited to) life drawing / plein air, art history, illustration, graphic / concept design, traditional painting and sculpture, matte painting, 3d and 2d animation , story/moodboarding, film.

At present, Alexander is working on a variety of projects both commercial and personal. In his spare time he enjoys long walks on the beach and generally being an outstanding member of the community. For more info either approach him in real-life or here via the interwebs!

Featured Participant: HallyuCY

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HallyuCY is a growing community dedicated to the spread of South Korean pop culture in Cyprus! The group will be participating at Cyprus Comic Con for a third consecutive year!

‘Hallyu’ (which literally translates to “flow of Korea”) also known as ‘The Korean Wave‘ is a neologism referring to the increase in popularity of South Korean culture in the rest of the world since the late 1990s. Some aspects of South Korean pop culture that have contributed to its popularity, include K-pop music, K-dramas (TV-series), the Korean language and cuisine, animated comics and films, technology.

To find out more about HallyuCY, join the group on Facebook.

In the online Facebook group, members can post about their favourite K-pop music, K-drama and films, share and exchange knowledge about different aspects of South Korean culture and generally bond and form friendships with likeminded individuals.

HallyuCY organise a number of gatherings throughout the year! Some of these include arts and crafts sessions, cooking sessions, Korean karaoke where the members sing their hearts out with no shame (!), Hangul (Korean alphabet) learning sessions, K-pop dance cover meetings and cozy Korean film nights!

At the Comic Con, HallyuCY will be screening K-pop music videos throughout the event so make sure to visit their booth for a taste of South Korean pop music! The group members will also be selling low-cost K-pop merchandise and homemade, delicious pepero (also known as pocky in Japan), which are chocolate covered biscuits, a very popular and yummy treat. Lastly, cute handmade arts and crafts created by the group’s members will be on display at their booth!

Make sure you don’t miss the afternoon dance performances on both Comic Con days by HallyuCY’s members on the Fringe Festival stage, as they will be performing a fun K-pop mashup showcasing choreographies from a number of popular groups! Stay tuned for the full Comic Con schedule release for the details!

Some of the group’s future goals include growing the Hallyu community in Cyprus, to inform and educate interested individuals about South Korean culture and to hopefully one day organise larger scale events, such as K-pop parties and Korean Cinema screenings!

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.