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Anna Cosma

04/03/2019 by

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to announce the return of Anna Cosma to CCC19 Artists’ Alley!

Anna was born and raised in Nicosia. Art and specifically illustration has been a prominent part of her life since childhood. She learned how to draw through trial and error, although after receiving academic training under the guidance of a reputable art school in Nicosia, she began to refine her skills and develop a style that it is her goal to master.

Anna is heavily influenced by tattoo culture and illustration, something which led her to learning the art of tattooing. She has been tattooing since the beginning of 2018, and her art style has evolved along with her tattoos. In both illustration and tattooing Anna has specialised in dot-work, with subjects ranging from illustrative monsters to geometric mandalas, and more recently pop culture portraits. She works almost exclusively in black ink. Alongside tattooing she has been involved in art shows and festivals around Cyprus, selling printed t-shirts and prints of her artwork. Other than tattooing, her goals for this year include creating a tattoo-inspired clothing brand for her art, with select dot-work pieces that represent her art style.

Visit Anna’s Facebook and Instagram to see more of her work!

Christofis Agathokleous

04/03/2019 by

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to announce the return of sculpture artist Christofis Agathokleous to its Artists’ Alley.

Christofis was born in Limassol and more specifically he is from the Agios Tychonas village. He graduated from Linopetra Lyceum, where subsequently he enlisted in the National Guard, and served on the Green Line.He studied Sociology at the School of Humanities at the University of Crete and later on he completed his master’s degree in Criminology at the University of Nicosia. Christofis is an amateur sculptor that creates themed pieces inspired from myths, legends and pop-culture.

He began to develop his skills in sculpture art at a very young age, around the age of 5 or 6. Sculpting has been a recurring passion for Christofis, who continued to practice his art and improve upon it through the process of ‘trial and error’. His creations are primarily inspired by pop culture, including movies, comics, video games, television series, etc.

To see more of Christofis’ creations you can visit his Facebook pages titled ‘Concept sculpting and hand-shaping creations CY‘.

Christofis specialises in two techniques: the first one is traditional sculpting, however incorporating his own aesthetics that approximates the characters as they appear in the comics or cartoons, as opposed to a realistic approach of the human figure. The second technique is hand-shaping, a technique he developed with time and is still developing, which is the creation of figures without the use of armature or any tools other than the artist’s hands.

Today, Christofis lives in Limassol where he currently works and develops his passion for sculpture art. His dream is to spread this type of art throughout the island, as well as to collaborate with people who have developed their sculpture art into different forms and manifestations.

 

 

 

Pokemon GO Cyprus

02/03/2019 by

The Pokémon GO Cyprus community for the first time ever will be joining Cyprus Comic Con 2019! The booth was set up in order to promote Pokémon GO in Cyprus. “Pokémon GO Cyprus” consists of various groups in the island, brought together under a common umbrella. The team behind the Pokémon GO Cyprus community are looking to increase the player base by encouraging more people  to play the game in Cyprus, especially since team play is a big part of it.

Pokémon GO is an AR game for iOS and Android devices developed by Niantic.  It was first published in certain countries in July 2016 and in the following months it was released in more countries. Pokémon GO quickly became a worldwide sensation; it was downloaded over 850 million times and has won several awards including including the award for “Best Mobile/Handheld Game” by the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2016 and the “Fan Favourite Mobile Game” award by Gamers’ Choice Awards in 2018.

Join Pokémon GO Cyprus’ discord to meet, chat and play with other trainers in your city!

On Sunday 21st April the Pokémon GO community booth will be joined by a talented local cosplayer wearing a Pokémon inspired costume, so make sure to visit their booth to find out what she will be cosplaying as!

Special Guest: Eugene Simon, GoT’s Lancel Lannister

01/03/2019 by

Eugene Simon

Game of Thrones’ “Lancel Lannister”

Special Guest for Cyprus Comic Con 2019!

Cyprus Comic Con has the pride to announce British actor Eugene Simon – best known for his role as “Lancel Lannister” in the HBO series Game of Thrones – as one of its Special Guests for 2019!

In-Booth Signing & Panel information *

Booth Prices

  • Autographs: €15
  • Selfie: €5

 

Panels

  • 1 hour GoT themed panel with Eugene’s castmate Ross Mullan on both days.

*Full info of booth and panels to be confirmed once the Cyprus Comic Con 2019 schedule is announced.

Early beginnings

Eugene Simon is a British actor born in London on the 11th June 1992. As a British actor with strong Irish roots, Eugene is the only actor in his family to have started at a young age. Eugene joined child agency Abacus when he was 8 years old, beginning his career in theatre with the role of “Archie” in James Joyce’s Exiles. It was his childhood love for reciting poems from Roald Dahl’s Dirty Beasts that sparked his interest in acting.

To get his footing in the industry, Eugene’s early career saw him portray younger versions of title characters, such as Casanova in the 2005 television series, and as Ben-Hur in the 2010 mini-series.

On his 18th birthday Eugene was offered not only his role as “Lancel Lannister” in Game of Thrones, but also the lead role of “Jerome Clarke” in Nickelodeon’s House of Anubis for three seasons.

Game of Thrones

Before landing the role of “Lancel Lannister” in Game of Thrones, Eugene auditioned for the role of “Joffrey Baratheon”, but managed to secure a character with a longer life span and who often is regarded to have one of the strangest progressions. Eugene’s character appeared in the first two seasons of the series, and he later returned as a religious fanatic of the Faith Militant in season five. Eugene has often spoken about the method acting behind his role, which included growing his fingernails for three months.

Recent Works

Eugene Simon has most recently been featured in the gothic horror film, The Lodgers (2017). He also appeared in the first season of National Geographic’s Genius, where he depicts the character of “Eduard Einstein”. Especially noteworthy is his role as “Ben Lyk” in the acclaimed film Kill Ben Lyk (2018), for which he has been nominated for Best Actor at a number of film festivals around the world.

Trivia

Eugene loves languages; he can speak Spanish and French. He has an older brother and a younger sister and he is the only actor in his family. He was named after his great-grandfather Eugene Barry Walsh to honour his Irish ancestry. His training includes sword-fighting, horse-riding and charioteering. Some of Eugene’s favourite hobbies are impersonation, mimicry and voice over work and are the reasons that he got into acting.

 

Watch Eugene Simon’s showreel

HallyuCY

25/02/2019 by

Cyprus Comic Con is delighted to announce that HallyuCY, the ever-growing local community dedicated to the spread of South Korean pop culture in Cyprus, will be returning once again to CCC19!

Last October, HallyuCY celebrated its 7 year anniversary since the group’s creation in 2011 and after a series of successful events leading up to the new year, its team is currently working hard at preparing a very special program for this year’s comic con!

HallyuCY organise an array of local events and gatherings throughout the year, which include cozy Korean film nights, K-pop dance tutorials, Random Dance Challenges, Korean cooking lessons, K-pop Karaoke nights, Trivia Quiz events and other competitions, Hangul (Korean alphabet) learning, as well as arts and crafts sessions! In the online Facebook group, members can post about their favourite K-pop music, K-drama and films, share and exchange knowledge about different aspects of South Korean culture and generally bond and form friendships with like-minded individuals.

In 2017, HallyuCY collaborated with Cyprus Comic Con and co-organised the biggest K-Pop and K-Hiphop club night that Cyprus had ever seen, which took place at Club Teez in Nicosia and featured guest DJ Ping from Young Bros, a well-known K-pop party team based in the UK.

2018 was another great year for the community, marking their first collaboration with K-Cineplex Cinemas nationwide, for bringing not one, but *two* K-pop themed movies on the big screen in Cyprus, featuring the global phenomenon of the immensely talented group of BTS. The two events brought together hundreds of ARMY and K-pop fans across all of Cyprus and featured exclusive footage of BTS, including their full live concert in Seoul which was part of their 2018 ‘Love Yourself’ world tour.

HallyuCY’s future goals for 2019 and beyond, include further growing their local community in Cyprus, to continue to inform and educate interested individuals about South Korean culture and hopefully one day be able to organise even bigger events, such as a Korean Cultural Festival!

Bibimbap – a popular Korean dish
Learning how to make Korean kimbap
Cooking with HallyuCY: Kimbap – Korean sushi
Random K-pop Dance Challenge in Limassol
Random K-pop Dance Challenge in Nicosia
Random K-pop Dance Challenge in Nicosia
So, what does ‘Hallyu’ mean?

‘Hallyu’ (which literally translates to “flow of Korea”) also known as ‘The Korean Wave‘ is a neologism referring to the increase in popularity of South Korean culture in the rest of the world since the late 1990s. Some aspects of South Korean pop culture that have contributed to its popularity, include K-pop music, K-dramas (TV-series), the Korean language and cuisine, animated comics and films, technology.

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K-Pop Dance Events Schedule for CCC19

Dance Performance by SAD-G

➤ Saturday 20/4 — 15:30

Location: Outdoor Festival

Random K-pop Dance Challenge

➤ Sunday 21/4 — 14:30

Location: Outdoor Festival

HallyuCY’s Booth at CCC19

HallyuCY will be screening K-pop music videos throughout the whole weekend at Comic Con, so make sure to visit their booth for a taste of South Korean pop music! K-pop fans will be able to choose from a large selection of low-cost K-pop merchandise*, including posters, postcards, calendars, silicone wristbands, masks, keyrings, transparent cards and more, featuring all their favourite K-pop idols! In addition, HallyuCY will be selling their famous homemade delicious pepero (also known as pocky in Japan), a jumbo version of the popular chocolate-covered biscuit with various toppings, individually wrapped for you to enjoy at the convention, or to take home.

*All revenue at HallyuCY’s comic con booth every year is used to fund the group’s upcoming events as well as cover the community’s running expenses.

HallyuCY’s booth at CCC17
Homemade pepero
Homemade pepero
K-pop merch
K-pop silicone wristbands
Throwback to HallyuCY’s booth at CCC16

This year, HallyuCY is proud to feature the arts and crafts of Fotini Georgiou (fotinieonnie), who will be selling her handcrafted keyrings, coasters and other creations, as well as prints of her illustrations of popular K-pop groups.

HallyuCY’s Dance Team: SAD-G

In 2014, a small number of HallyuCY members came together to prepare a K-pop dance performance for the very first Cyprus Comic Con! They were nervous, completely self-taught, but eager to show just how much they loved K-pop music and dancing. Today in 2019, the group has since changed, expanded and evolved!

As its goals solidified, it was time to give this new and exciting project a name. The name ‘SAD-G‘ (Super Awesome Dance Group) came up right after the end of Cyprus Comic Con 2016, when the members decided that it was time to let more people in their group and further develop their dancing skills! Now, the team consists of six core members, with more joining at every practice session depending on which choreographies they are interested in learning.

Even though originally the team was formed for the sole purpose of performing at Comic Con, their focus and determination led them to performing at various other events, such as Random Dance Challenges, dance covers, and dance tributes to K-pop groups.

For the last couple of years, SAD-G have really been working hard on their Instagram and YouTube content, where they frequently upload videos of their dance tributes and performances, as well as fun bloopers from filming!

SAD-G is a multi-fandom group that doesn’t favour girl groups over boy groups, or vice versa. They cover a variety of choreographies, ranging from bubblegum pop such as Twice and Red Velvet, to more electronic and hip-hop sounds such as BTS and NCT. This progress has been possible through the expansion of the HallyuCY community – and of course the many K-pop fans they meet at Cyprus Comic Con every year!

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