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Hi! My name is MC and I specialized in Multimedia Arts and Digital Illustrations and I hail from the wild west Texas! Fort Worth Texas y’all!

During the day, I work full time as Senior Digital Designer for Hellofresh in the U.S, responsible for E-learning gamification designs for adult training and internal social media designs. And during night time, I work as an illustrator, creating different arts whether digital or traditional!

I began my journey as a self-taught artist, using photography as my references when learning how to draw, along with various self-guided artbooks, while also partaking in artist groups to help advance my skills more by meeting other fellow artists!

Drawing and creating has always been a deep passion of mine ever since I was a kid, as I pour a little of my soul into each design/drawing. My creative path led me to apply at the University of Nicosia after finishing high school, earning my Bachelors in Applied Multimedia Arts and Minors in Graphic Design!

From there, I took it upon myself to keep advancing my creative skills, such as learning on gamification design skills, video edition and animation, along with partaking in various Artist Alleys conventions (such as Akon and AnimeFest) both in the U.S and EU!

At the end of the day, what keeps my inspiration going is meeting other amazing fellow artists, engaging with creative peeps and learning new skills each time! Or just geeking out in board games and DnD sessions!

I look forward to meeting everyone this year at CCC 2023! It’s been a while and I just can’t wait!

You can find Maria’s work on her Instagram page.

Maria Bintzilaiou – Seeker, was born in Athens in 1997 and has been drawing since she remembers and is self-taught in the field of comics, while is currently a student at the University of Fine Arts at Ioannina in an attempt to combine the comics she so loves with the “something” of the painting element.

Having discovered her love for comics and more specifically manga at the age of junior high school, Maria who liked drawing, mermaids, dinosaurs and mythology, vowed to one day turn her stories into comics. The nickname Seeker emerged from her never ending quest of perfecting both skill and art style – or so she says. In April of 2022 she printed the first volume of her self-published work titled “Priers, Manifesting”, followed by the next volume a year later, “Priers, Aggravated” and is aiming on self publishing more volumes and creating more comics and zines.

In the year 2022, she attended the ComicDom Athens Convention, the ComicCon Thessaloniki Convention, the AthensCon Convention and in 2023, so far she has attended the ComicDom Athens and the ComicCon Thessaloniki Conventions.

In the near future she would be interested in working as a concept artist in the field of tabletop roleplay games like World of Darkness which she loves very much and which hasn’t ceased to be a source of inspiration for her.

You can find Maria’s work on her Instagram page.

Margarita Kotsoni is a Cypriot artist with a BFA in Digital arts and animation and a love for cosplay. With a proclivity towards drawing up a storm and covering a variety of topics, she has worked on a variety of animated projects with the likes of Bill Plympton and Signe Baumane. As a cosplay lover, Margarita has also attended every East Coast (US) convention she could find and partaken in many show panels. Her work and cosplay are all available online right now.

You can find Margarita’s work here.

Lydia Eleftheria Papaconstantinou

BlanketBurrito – Artist and Writer Daphne Vasiliki Thermidi – Artist and Writer

BlanketBurrito has studied Graphic Design & Visual Communication in the University of West Attica and continued for a Masters on Animation in the same University. Daphne V. Thermidi, also a student of Graphic Design and Animation in the same University, is currently trying to combine illustration and animation, having already co-created (along with BlanketBurrito) the pilot episode of the series “Tales” based on her graphic novel. The two met while studying and began a promising collaboration which led to the creation of “Tales” as well as the comic anthology “How did the fly get inside?” among other things.

You can find BlanketBurrito’s work on her page on Instagram, and Behance Page .

You can find Daphne’s work on Instagram, and Behance Page.

Paris Andreou Hadjipavlou is a ten-year-old boy who draws from the age of two with amazing zeal and vivid imagination.He holds numerous international awards and represents his country Cyprus in Art competitions all over the globe.He draws various art styles and all proceeds from selling his art are always donated to various charitable causes. With his participation in Cyprus Comic Con he wishes to support ‘MIRACLE BABIES’ association .At the exhibition, Paris will be selling printed postcards with his art to anyone who wants to contribute.

You can find Paris’s work on his page on Facebook.