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Artist Profile: Dorina Panayiotopoulou (Aniro)


Dorina Panayiotopoulou (also known as Aniro) is a 23-year-old artist from Athens, currently studying architecture. Dorina has always loved to draw, but never really thought of making her own comics until two years ago, when a close friend suggested that she takes a six-month seminar about comics.

For more of Dorina’s work, follow her on Facebook and Tumblr.

When she creates comics, Dorina feels very happy and complete. She usually draws inspiration from the city and people around her. In the future she hopes to make a living out of her comics and to travel all around the world!

Dorina has just completed her first comic book ‘Lost Soul’, which is about a girl who has forgotten her dreams and is trapped in the stressful rhythm of the city, in a social system based on money and exploitation, doing the same boring things day after day, living like a zombie. Until, one day something happens.

“In a period of time when the only thing they want is to control and manipulate us, the only thing we can do is to stay creative and continue to express ourselves.” – Aniro

Cyprus Comic Con 2015 is the first convention that Dorina is attending and she is very excited to be participating as a featured artist!

We are very excited to have Dorina featuring at our Comic Con! We hope you are also looking forward to seeing more of her work, as well as her first comic book ‘Lost Soul’! Leave us your comments below!

Ultra Street Fighter IV & Mortal Kombat X Tournaments @ CCC2015


Cyprus Throwdown Tournament Series & Cyprus Fighting Game Community (CyFighters) present the Cyprus Comic Con Throwdown happening under the auspices of this year’s Cyprus Comic Con. Are you ready to face off with your foes in Ultra Street Fighter IV and/or Mortal Kombat X and battle your way to the top? Prizes to be announced soon!

RULES AND REGULATIONS
1. All games will be played on the default settings, unless otherwise specified.
2. You must provide your own controller for games played on all systems. If you don’t, default controllers will be provided that may not fulfil your requirements.
3. Players that are late or don’t appear for their match will be eliminated.
4. The tournaments will take place in the elimination format.
5. MORTAL KOMBAT X; PlayStation 4; 13:00-15:00 BEST OUT OF THREE MATCHES TIME LIMIT 99 SECONDS
6. ULTRA STREET FIGHTER 4; PC; 10:00-12:00 BEST OUT OF THREE MATCHES TIME LIMIT 99 SECONDS
REGISTRATION FEES: 10 EUR per tournament, 15 if you take part in both.
 

This year’s Cyprus Comic Con gaming stage and arena are made possible by;

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Artist Profile: Siew Anastasiou


Siew Luan Anastasiou was born in Malaysia and studied Medical Biochemistry in the University of Birmingham in the UK. She is married and has been living in Cyprus since 1987. She has worked as a biology teacher in secondary schools.

Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, was an important part of her life from her childhood years when she was introduced to its endless possibilities and creative potential.

Samples of her work can be found on her facebook page, Siew’s Origami.

Most of her origami are folded from a single piece of paper without any cutting and gluing. Some of her favourite designs are from master origamists such as Robert Lang, Satoshi Kamiya and Kade Chan.

Siew has made models of dragons, tarantula, snakes, Pegasus, T-rex, Super Mario family, roses, Christmas trees, elephants, rabbits… the list is endless!!

She takes part as an origami expert in exhibitions and public events, delivers lessons and takes orders for various types of origami creations.

Siew impressed everyone with her incredible origami designs at last year’s convention and we are confident that she will present something exquisite again this year.

Are you also looking forward to more of Siew’s origami creations? Let us know in the comments below!

Super Smash Bros. Tournament – Prizes announcement


Cyprus Smash Brothers are proud to announce the prizes for this year’s Super Smash Bros Nationals taking place at Cyprus Comic Con on August 29 at Filoxenia Conference Centre.
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The prizes are:

  • 1st place winner – Xbox One Console
  • 2nd place winner – Iron Man 3 ArtFx Statue 1/6 – 38cm tall
  • 3rd place winner – Marvel Comics – ArtFx + Statue 1/10 Deadpool (Marvel Now Series) – 15cm

Prizes are kindly sponsored by Gamers’ Boulevard.

The gaming events at Cyprus Comic Con are made possible by Sony PlayStation Cyprus, Bionic, Synergia Media, Shark and G3 Great Games.

Read more about this year’s Smash Nationals

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Special Guest: Michael Dialynas


dialinas4Michael Dialynas is an accomplished comic book illustrator who has co-created Amala’s Blade for Dark Horse Comics, drawn comics like Spera for Archaia, Superior Spider-man Team-up for Marvel and currently, the critically acclaimed The Woods for BOOM! Studios with writer James Tynion IV.

He has also co-published a collection of short stories he wrote and illustrated called Trinkets: An Attic Full of Stories (now available from Comicdom Press).

He is based in Athens, Greece and can be found online on his official site: woodencrown.com