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Katerina Pantela

21/02/2019 by

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes the talented Katerina Pantela to its Artists’ Alley for CCC19!

Katerina is a concept artist, character designer and 2D animator from Cyprus. She holds a First Class Honours BA degree in Animation from the Arts University Bournemouth and has also undertaken specialised courses in Character Design. Katerina has also completed the renowned Motivarti mentorship program as a mentee in the field of visual development. Additionally, since 2015 she has been a member of the board for the animation festival Countryside Animafest Cyprus: views of the World which takes place in Cyprus every year.

If you want to see more of Katerina’s work and learn more about it make sure to visit her website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr!

Katerina has worked for several animation studios such as Brown Bag Film, Cartoon Saloon, Boulder Media and Gingerbread Animation. Some of the projects she has worked on include animated children’s TV series for Disney XD and Nickelodeon. She now works as a freelance concept artist and character designer providing the following services: pitch bible art, concept art/ vis dev, character design, colour styling/ colour scripts, production design/ art direction, prop and location design, animation in Harmony.

Watch Katerina’s animation reel!

 

Arcanum Comics (Demetres Panayides & Marios Yiangou)

21/02/2019 by

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back Arcanum Comics (illustrator Demetres Panayides and writer Marios Yiangou) to its Artists’ Alley for CCC19!

Arcanum Comics

Arcanum Comics is a collective formed by Demetres Panayides and Marios Yiangou. While currently working on DÆMONIUM, a horror series set in Cyprus, they aim to grow their collection, and hopefully the team, offering high quality comics and graphic novels across various genres.

Find out more information about DÆMONIUM on Arcanum Comics’ Facebook page!

The Artist

Demetres Panayides is a young comic book illustrator from Nicosia and his work has been published both in the US, as well as Cyprus. He describes himself as a “keen movie freak” with a special love towards horror, thriller and sci-fi movies. He is also a comic book geek and his favourite comic book titles are Spawn and Watchmen. Demetres loves dark and horror themes in art and he tries to incorporate those elements into his own personal art style. Some of his greatest influences are Alex Pardee, Ashley Wood, Todd McFarlane and Ben Templesmith. Demetres notably designed the cover for local metal band Blynd’s first full-length album, titled ‘The Enemy’ and illustrated the mascot “Rusty Goblin” for the fantasy game workshop Isengard. In 2014, he was one of the ten runner-ups of a worldwide talent hunt held by American comics publisher Top Cow and his first comic, Artifacts: Lost Tales #1 was published through them. More recently, he illustrated a short story for local band Winter’s Verge, titled “The Tale of Adamar of Calthorn”. For the past two years he has been working on a collaborative comic book project called DÆMONIUM together with writer and illustrator Marios Yiangou. The story of DÆMONIUM is based in Cyprus, with the 1st instalment of the story – The Black Pharaoh – having been presented at CCC 2017

The Writer

Marios Yiangou works as a graphic designer for an offshore company in Cyprus. What he loves more than writing is talking about himself in the third person. Marios has been writing for more than 15 years, from poetry to prose to comic book scripts, although never professionally. An avid reader of history and mythology, he tries to incorporate elements of both in all of his writing, along with noir, fantasy and horror themes. And ranting – he loves to rant! He fancies himself a cinephile and a huge comic book geek. His major non-comic book literary influences are Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Tom Wolfe, Jack Kerouac and Nick Cave. As for comic book creators – not that there’s any difference – Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis and Michael Carey. DÆMONIUM – The Black Pharaoh, was his first attempt at collaborating with another artist and presenting his work to the public.

 

Savvas Papadopoulos

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Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back the talented illustrator Savvas Papadopoulos  to its Artists’ Alley for 2019!

Savvas is a freelance illustrator and designer from Nicosia,Cyprus. He graduated from Birmingham City University with a Visual Communication – Illustration diploma and he has since worked on various projects, such as game design, books, comics, logos, digital paintings, board games and lots of other things. He also has been learning animation recently. He wants to share his art with other great artists whilst also getting ideas and motivation from them.

Check Savvas’ page on Behance!

Polina Tsatsami

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We are pleased to welcome Polina Tsatsami to CCC19’s Artists’ Alley!

Polina is a 23 year old artist from Serres, Greece. She is mostly self taught but she attendeds some drawing lessons at “Artio” Art School At Serres and studied Graphic Designer at IEK Paster at Thessaloniki. Her passion is drawing and sketching, but she is working on some Graphic design projects as well. Her biggest achievements so far are earning the second place in a sketching/drawing competition about “Promotion Of Breastfeeding ” and earning the fourth place in a Poster Design contest about “Speak About Bullying”. Her inspiration comes from comics , anime, movies and her favourite music bands. Her dream is to work in the comic industry and be able to sketch and bring new heroes to life, like the ones she used to read as a child.

VIsit Polina’s Facebook and Instagram to see more of her work!

Special Guest: Guillermo Ortego

19/02/2019 by

Guillermo Ortego

Illustrator & Comic Book Artist

Special Guest for Cyprus Comic Con 2019

Guillermo was born and raised in Madrid, but he is currently living in London. He completed a degree in History in 2009 and since then he has been inking comic books and illustrating books and magazines.

For more of Guillermo Ortego’s work make sure to visit his official website, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr!

On inking duties he has worked for American publishers like Marvel, DC, Valiant and Dynamite, where he’s been lucky to collaborate with renowned pencillers as Jim Cheung, Emanuela Lupacchino and Jacen Burrows on books like Astonishing X-Men, X-Factor and Moon Knight.

On the illustration front, Guillermo provides covers, portraits and interior pieces for newspapers like POLITICO or EL MUNDO and for magazines like Panenka, Popshot Magazine and Stir to Action. He has also illustrated books for the Spanish publishers Espasa, Everest and Graphiclassics.

In-Booth Signing & Panel information

Guillermo will be hosting two panels with the following topics:

  • Saturday (20th of April)

Topic: Freelancing your way to the grave: A crash course on how to break into comics.

  • Sunday (21st of April)

Topic: Inking, inkers and inks: The works.

Booth Times

Guillermo will be available for meet and greet at his booth. More info on his booth times and panels to be confirmed once the CCC19 schedule is announced.