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Nicos Nipat and Copper Mouflon


Nicos Nipat
Nicos is a self-taught cartoonist and comic book artist from Cyprus who uses traditional and digital media to offer a funny take on everyday situations. Growing up, Nicos covered the margins of his school books in pencil doodles. As an adult, he is constantly amazed at how someone’s feelings can be transferred and communicated to others through artwork. His goal is to achieve the same effect in his work.

Being an artist who wants to keep improving his skills, Nicos likes to wander around town, always equipped with a pen and sketchbook, which he uses to draw observational drawings of unsuspecting bystanders, capturing their souls in his sketchbook forever! Careful. You could be next!

So far, he has taken part in creating comics by collaborating with writers to create short comics as part of an anthology from WriteCy. This local organization ran comic writing lessons and put together the collection. The comic Nicos worked on was titled “Steel Punch”. Beyond such collaborative situations, Nicos is always looking for opportunities and good stories to work on, and he achieves this by taking on various commissions. That is how he ended up doing illustrations for the book “Kingdom of the Red Rose” which was self-published online by the author.

You can find out more about Nicos and his work at his Instagram and Facebook pages.

Christophoros Demetriou (Copper Mouflon)
Christophoros Demetriou is a writer with a singular passion for creating stories. There is nothing he enjoys more in this life than writing stories and sharing them with others. His primary goal is to entertain his audience with unexpected twists and turns that will surprise the readers and cause a stir of emotions. Writing stories for a living is his biggest dream and he is constantly looking for ways to spend the rest of his life making up stories and figuring out the best ways to present them to his audience.

When Christophoros is not writing stories or working at a day job, he is either consuming other people’s stories, contemplating life while holding open a fridge door, or hitting the gym in an attempt to burn off what he ate while standing in front of the fridge; everyone knows it helps with creativity.

His intense love for storytelling has led him to create Copper Mouflon, under which he self-publishes stories he has written. These include comics such as; “Missing Pieces”, a webcomic series on Webtoons that is now completed; “Demons Drive”, a graphic novel; “Pernach Master”, and “Last Moments”, two short comics he wrote for an anthology. He has also written a few short stories and a novel he self-published titled “Kingdom of the Red Rose.”

You can find most of the work he has self-published on his website.

 

Nicolas Stefadouros


Born in Athens in 1980. Studied Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, worked as an engineer but soon was drawn by the field of illustrations and comics. Studied comics with scholarship in Vakalo College of Art and Design under the guidance of the acclaimed artist Nikos Koutsis. During the last 11 years he has been working as a comic artist & illustrator and has collaborated with major companies like Desyllas Games, Dufry, NOUNOU, ION and AEK, and also the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, the G.Gounaro Museum and many Greek artists. He has already published many books and been awarded twice in the Greek Comics Awards. At the time he draws comics for Oops Comics Publications, comic strips & stickers for The Design Agency, and he teaches how to make comics in “Zografizo” Art Workshop (New Heraklio), “To Kouvari” Childrens Art Workshop (Ilioupoli) and Robolab Cyprus (online lessons). His artistic home is Teesney.com.

You can check his work here.

Publications:
OMG, Zombie! #1 (Webcomics 2014)

Memory Lane (Jemma Press 2015)

OMG, Zombie! #2 (Webcomics 2015)

Gramers: The Comic (Webcomics 2016) Out of the Blue (NEURINOX 2016)

OMG, Zombie! #3 (Webcomics 2016)

Trails and Memories: Zografou City Council 70 Years (G. Gounaropoulos Museum 2017)

George Zampetas: The Best Student (George Zampetas Jr. self-published 2017)

Alexandria (Webcomics 2018)

COMedICS RELOADED (Jemma Press 2018)

Detective Astral (Mihalis Sideris Publications 2018)

Katerina in Athens (Technopolis 2019)

Sketch Fighter (Webcomics 2019)

GDPR and the 40 Thieves (Cretan University Press 2020)

Mpampadoistories (Mikros Iros Publications 2020)

60 Seconds to the End (EtK 2022) Dead Active Vol.I (Oops Comics 2022)

Mpampadoistories #2 (Mikros Iros Publications 2022)

Dead Active Vol.2 (Oops Comics 2022)

Z Troops (Oops Comics 2022)

www.stefadouros.gr

Neil Gibson – TPub Comics


Neil is the editor in chief and CEO of TPub Ltd. Neil never wanted to be a writer, but he just LOVED good comics. As a fan for many years he tried writing one, and to his surprise, people really liked what he wrote. So he published it and his first book went to number one on Amazon Kindle and he quit his job to make comics and never looked back. Neil is entirely self-taught, but he now teaches others how to make comics. He is inspired by stuff that interests him. Neil encourages people who are new to comics or want to learn more about the creation of comics to have a chat with him during Cyprus Comic Con 2019.

TPub is a British comic book publisher and the creators of “Twisted Dark“, “Twisted Light“, “Tabatha“, “Tortured Life“, “Turncoat“, “Theatrics” and “The World of Chub Chub“

 

Nearchos Konstantinou


Nearchos has a Master of Arts in Communication Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics from the New York Institute of Technology. He is a multi-disciplinary creative artist, with the hybrid skillset of a graphic designer, an animator, a motion designer and an illustrator. He has participated in several Art, Motion and Comic Book festivals in Cyprus and Greece. He is an avid runner and when he’s not working, he likes to travel, watch movies, read comics, play games, and do some fun outdoor activities with family.

You can find his work here.

Michalis Michailides


Kancer The Crab is the persona taken by Limassol-based graphic designer, Michael ‘Yukis’ that embodies the struggle of the fearless crab. The Crab forges small self-contained story posters inspired directly by early 90’s-2000’s video games that build up his own bigger mythos. Through the storytelling he seeks to make his own examination of life, expressing relatable emotional struggles, providing commentary for concurrent events or getting wacky with memes. With a decade of experience in Adobe software, The Crab seeks to claw itself in the graphic design space of Cyprus after graduating with a Graphic Communications & Illustration degree and permanently cementing himself as a young, innovative yet sensitive creative. The Crab marches towards the blazing horizon, expanding his online presence while working on a new poster series influenced by spaghetti westerns.

You can find Michalis’s work on his Instagram page.