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Announcing Winners of the Guild Wars 2 Give-away!


Remember the Guild Wars 2 give-away we announced a week or so ago? The time has come to announce the winners! We resorted to random.org to pick which of over 100 potential winners would actually walk away with NCSoft’s prizes!

Without further ado here are the winners!

  • Guild Wars 2 Collectors Edition
    • George H.
  • Guild Wars 2 + Heart of Thorns Digital Edition
    • Maria A.
    • Artem B.
    • Nyree H.
    • Andri D.
    • Peter F.

Congratulations guys! We’ll be in touch by phone and/or email to arrange pick-up of your prizes! And to the rest who signed up – never fear – there’ll be plenty more competitions to try your luck on at this year’s comic con!

We would like to close with a big thank you to NCSoft for these awesome prizes! Make sure you all go and pick up a copy of Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns when it releases!

Cosplay Photography & Videography


Cosplayers, prepare to be photographed, filmed, photo-shopped and ogled at from every angle! This year, we have a team of 2 extremely talented and eager photographers, a young and ambitious videographer and a veteran sculptor and prop-maker, all specifically tasked to make Cyprus Comic Con’s Cosplay experience, a memorable one.

Our photographers, Alex and Panayiotis alongside sculptor, Rakis, have been working hard to convert the cosplay photography booth into a beautiful interactive scene, complete with detailed props and artificial smoke, ensuring that the final result will be amazing. Cosplayers and everyone else, do not hesitate to go take a picture! All the photos will be sold as professionally retouched prints and high quality digital files and some of them will posted online.

Damien, our talented videographer from last year has returned with new ideas and awesome new equipment, one being a drone which will film the fringe festival from above! Like last year, he will be making a Cosplay music video in the style of Sneaky Zebra. Prepare your moves and poses!


The team

Photographer: Alex Kokkinos

After years of being the personal photographer for all worthy up-and-coming villains, Alex Kokkinos has decided in favour of extending his services to the realm of superheroes. In a recent, exclusive interview he stated:

“The world domination market is in decline. Check out the posters around town nowadays and you’ll see the likes of Superman, Batman, Captain America. It’s the age of the superhero. That’s where the money is. That’s where I’ll be.”

While, no doubt, there will be those upset with the change of clientèle, there is little worry for Alex Kokkinos. After all, he does shoot people for a living.

Email: kokkinos.alexander@gmail.com Telephone: +357 99328578


Photographer: Panayiotis Kyriakou

Panayiotis was born in a far far away old kingdom called Paphos more than three decades ago. His father is a noble man who held the key of the apothecary of magic. Magic showing the past and the future, in this and alternate universes, were kept in little boxes. From an early age Panayiotis used his access the apothecary to gain knowledge about the secrets of the world. Today he is using his knowledge of magic to bring to life lost heroes and heroins, and enrich the world with fantasy and imagination. In the last Cyprus Comic Con he searched in the soul of the cosplayers and revived their past lives. He will be here at the 2015 Cyprus Comic Con, so if you are brave enough to travel through time and realms of realities, give him a visit and the chance to look into your souls!

Website Facebook Page Last year’s cosplayers


Sculptor: Rakis

Rakis is based in Limassol and specializes in special fx make-up & prosthetics, sculpture & design, creature & character design, models & prototypes, animatronics.

Facebook Page Email: rakisgeorgiou@gmail.com Telephone: +357 99226887


Videographer: Damien

Damien has worked on a number of prominent projects: club filming all over the island, recordings of world-renowned artists such as Armin Van Bureen, multiple video adverts for gyms, hotels, coffee shops, tv spots and more! He won fist place at the Young Lions film competition Cyprus earlier this year.

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CyprusGamer.com media sponsor of CCC’15


cyprusgamerWe would like to announce CyprusGamer.com as one of our sponsors for this year’s CCC.

A few words from CyprusGamer.com:
We are delighted to participate in this year’s Cyprus Comic Con as media sponsors.

We will set up our booth, which will be named “ChilloutZone” where our guests will be able to test their abilities in old arcade video games – with the winners claiming big prizes! We will also have N64, Mega Drive and Gamecube consoles where you will be able to play some classic games such as Mario Kart, Sonic the Hedgehog etc.

We hope to meet you there and receive your feedback on how we can improve.

Our website cyprusgamers.com promises full and accurate information on all matters relating to Cypriot gamers.

We are a non-profit organization which aims to showcase daily news, according to the Cypriot Gaming Community.

Our team consists of columnists, analysts and gaming/peripheral reviewers , producers for videos and interviews who are working selflessly to showcase any topic might interest the gamers of Cyrus.

Website: http://www.cyprusgamer.com
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CyprusGamer
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cyprusgamer/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thecyprusgamer
Twitch Channel: http://www.twitch.tv/cyprusgamer/mobile

The Floor Plan and the Schedule of CCC’15


With less than a week remaining for Cyprus Comic Con 2015, “Filoxenia” Conference Center is preparing to welcome the second edition of CCC which has already broken all records set by its predecessor, in terms of participation and special guests! We are incredibly excited about all the fun activities that will take place on Saturday 29th and we hope you are all hyped up too!

To help you prepare for the event, we are happy to share the Floor Plan and Time Schedule of Cyprus Comic Con 2015! Feel free to click on the pictures to enlarge, then save and print them in order to have them with you on the day!

Lastly, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the participants for helping us fill this massive venue this year! We honestly didn’t believe that we would manage to fill the floor space that is five times larger than our previous event. We will see you all at Comic Con!

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Artist Profile: Alfredo Retamar


Alfredo Retamar was born in 1983 in the city of Villaguay, Entre Rios province, in Argentina. At the age of three, his family moved to Tandil, Buenos Aires. His passion for comics started the minute he learned how to read, followed by his first doodles of favourite characters.

Check out Alfredo’s fanzine, Líder Negativo!

Alfredo started making his own comics when he was in high school. During the year of 2000, he attended to a comic book workshop where he learned how to put some order to the chaotic creative process. Around that time, he also experimented with self-taught 2D short animations. His work is mostly influenced by books, comics, movies, music, the news, among other story starters and life itself.

After an impasse of a couple of years without writing or drawing anything, Alfredo started a fanzine in 2008 that continues up to the present: Líder Negativo. The fanzine showcases the work of some of Alfredo’s friends and fellow artists, as well as his own work.

Currently, Alfredo is working on various projects to be published in Argentina.

Alfredo has prepared a short animation to celebrate his participation at Cyprus Comic Con 2015 and his comics travelling across the world to reach us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kPV6JC4bw

Although Alfredo can’t be with us in person at this year’s convention, his artwork and copies of Líder Negativo will be available in the artists’ section, so keep an eye out for his dedicated table on the day!

Looking forward to seeing more of Alfredo’s work? Leave us a comment below!