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Mister S (Michael Drakos)

20/03/2019 by

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Mister S (Michael Drakos) to its Artists’ Alley!

Mike aka Mister S is an illustrator and graphic designer, born, raised and based in the beautiful city of Limassol, Cyprus. He has studied Graphic Design and he has been a proud member of ‘2C Design Box’, a creative multi-space located in Limassol, since his graduation.
He is in love with good design and his passion is to draw illustrations of any kind, but most of all, funky characters. When he creates on paper he likes to combine pencil with black ink, no colour, but when it comes to digital he mostly uses funky, vibrant colours along with black shadows to achieve a high contrast result. His style is influenced from the graffiti culture, since he has been spray painting for many years. Also  another big influence is the graphic design ‘world’, therefore anyone can notice in his illustrations some elements are more graphic.
If you want to see more of Mike’s art, you can follow him on Instagram!

Eleanna Mavrofrydi

20/03/2019 by

Comic book artist and illustrator Eleanna Mavrofrydi is returning to our Artists’ Alley for this year’s event!

Eleanna was born on 16th of December 1991 in Athens, Greece. Having an appeal to painting from her early years, she attended art classes during her adolescence and in 2014 she graduated from AKTO college with a Bachelor in sketching, comics and cartoons while attending the one-year workshop of Nikos Koutsis for designing and creating comics in Vakalo college. In 2012 she participated in a group fanzine called “Caffeination” and the comic anthology of IDW Publishing, “Womanthology Heroic: Greek Division”. Eleanna has been working as a freelancer illustrator since 2014. She continued to involve in other forms of artistic work as a stylist & art director of photography, in collaboration with independent Greek clothing brands.

Eleanna has collaborated with brands such as “Black n’ Rose” and “Shoot Dice” by creating deisgns for T-Shirts. She has also designed textiles for bags in collaboration with the brand “Clic Jewels” for the “Clic x Eleanna: Summer 2015” collection. Other than working with clothing and accessories brand, Eleanna has also exhibited her artwork in many conventions such as “Comicdom Con” (2013, 2016 & 2018), “Athens Con” (2015, 2016, 2017), “The Comic Con” in Thessaloniki (2016, 2017, 2018) and “Cyprus Comic Con” (2017). She has also participated in the group illustration exhibition “IllustraSyros” in Syros.

To see more of Eleanna’s work, visit her Facebook and Instagram.

 

Leonidas “Steve” Stivaktis

20/03/2019 by

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to have artist Leonidas “Steve” Stivaktis to its Artists’ Alley for this year’s event!

Steve first took up a pencil when his grandma taught him how to draw daisies, and he’s never put it down since then. He studied comic art and illustration in Onerakis School of Applied Arts in Athens, creative writing in the Kapodistrian University of Athens, and he’s currently taking more classes on writing and ancient Greek theatre.

He’s been working in the field of illustration since 2008, and since then he has illustrated several books for children and teachers, the pen and paper roleplaying game “The Small Folk” for Fate, and he used to make queer comics for Antivirus magazine. He’s happiest when he self-publishes his comics and takes them from convention to convention in Greece and Europe, which he has been doing with great success since 2013.

He’s most known for his comics “Esmé”, “The Monsters in the Closet”, and “Skitsouxtra” / “Jellinkfish”, and currently he’s working on concept art for tabletop roleplaying games, a graphic novel about growing up queer in 90’s Athens, and several science fantasy stories, both as comics and alternative media.

The past couple of years, he’s been making Dungeons and Dragons designs, both official and as a fan. In convention circles, he’s often known as “that sticker guy”. In the rare occasions when he’s not working, you can find him playing D&D, reading inside buses or trains, petting dogs, or thinking how bummed he is that he’s not currently working or petting dogs.

You can follow Steve’s Instagram to see more of his work!

Retro Computing & Gaming Ltd

19/03/2019 by

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to announce Retro Computing & Gaming Ltd as one of its participants for this year’s event!

Retro Computing & Gaming Ltd (RCG), is a non-profit company, responsible for organising and setting up the first Computer History Museum in Cyprus, combining social responsibility, culture, education and entertainment in a single package.

RCG currently manages a collection of more than 100 authentic computers, gaming consoles and peripherals from the 1970s to the 1990s and hundreds of original software titles, well preserved and in good working order.

The company is also responsible for organising a number of educational programs, approved by the Ministry of Education and Culture and delivered by qualified associates to students of primary and secondary education.

In 2018 the company organised a historic exhibition, a museum educational program and a number of events free of charge, offering visitors of all ages a unique opportunity to learn about the history of computers as well as an authentic retro computing and gaming experience.

To find out more about RCG you can visit their Facebook and website!

Thodoris Thou

17/03/2019 by

The Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Thodoris Thou to CCC19 Artists’ Alley!

Thodoris is a self-taught sculptor and ceramist. He was born in Paphos but he moved to Nicosia when he was a child. He is mostly figurative sculptor but he also makes functional ceramics too, such as mugs plates, spoons pitches, tea pots etc. His inspiration comes primarily from pop culture; famous movie characters and iconic creatures and monsters! The Greek mythology is another source of his inspiration.

Thodoris has a special bond with nature and animals and a lot of the time he uses that on his work. He has been working with clay since 2006 and he uses stoneware clay mostly. All his sculptures are covered with underglazes, stains and glazes and are fired multiple times in an electric kiln with final temperatures 1200 – 50c degree. His studies background has nothing to do with clay; he went to Athens for 3 years studying animation in a private collage. Sometimes he sees that part of himself in his work, nothing is wasted!

You can visit Thodoris’ Instagram to see more of his work!