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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.

Artist Profile: Kostas Nikellis

20/08/2016 by

Meet our next Featured Artist, illustrator and game concept artist Kostas Nikellis!

Kostas Nikellis was born and lives in Athens, Greece. He is currently working as an illustrator and computer games graphics designer, while he previously worked as a computers programmer and analyst. His works have been published in Greece and abroad, in historical magazines, newspapers, books, electronic games cover boxes, card games etc.

For more samples of Kostas’ work, visit his profile on DeviantArt.

Kostas has been active for several years in the web-games graphics design industry, along with his freelance work in illustration and he is currently working on his upcoming comic book!

Featured Shop: Antiquarian World

19/08/2016 by

Antiquarian_Logo_Compass PNGOne of the participating stores for this year’s Comic Con is Antiquarian World!

Antiquarian World is not your classic antique or modern art shop. It’s a concept, a philosophy; Antiquarian World is a physical aesthetic representation of the fantasy and fictional sub-genre inspired by 19th-century steam power, elegance and romanticism with a modernity spin to it. At Antiquarian World they create custom steampunk creations such as industrial lighting, ornaments and jewellery. They are also specialised in bar interior decoration and custom industrial creations used in such settings.

Some of their projects include lighting for Farma Project, Custom bar equipment for Palia Pineza, interior decoration for houses and shops.

There will be two Steampunk handicraft workshops in Kyrenia lecture theatre each day of the convention. Saturday 13:00 and 16:00 and Sunday 13:00 and 16:00. During each workshop a small group of volunteers from the audience will have the opportunity to build their own steam punk accessories hands-on.

Visit Antiquarian World’s website here.