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Lynn Shields


We want to welcome Lynn Shields to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley!

Pen and ink art with a twist. Perhaps dark and unusual but arresting and thought provoking. Lynn studied art and rediscovered her talent in the last 3 years. She now works as a graphic designer specialising in product development, turning abstract concepts into products for globally recognised brands and charities. Lynn has exhibited her art via a solo art show in Paphos and hopes to expand her portfolio to include more abstract concepts, different media and new ideas.

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

Nikoletta Kyprianou


We are delighted to have Nikoletta Kyprianou for another year at CCC’s Artists’ Alley!

Nikoletta is a freelance artist and illustrator from Nicosia, with a BA Degree in Illustration from Middlesex University. She really enjoys creating intricate pen drawings of weird and out of this world characters. Nikoletta grew up watching old horror and fantasy movies, while also reading books and comics such as Shivers, Goosebumps and Tales from the Crypt – which eventually inspired her art. Her work is all hand drawn with some final Photoshop touches, depending on the commission.

For the past 7 years, Nikoletta has been the art director for Power of the Night Festival and most of her current works include: CD covers and booklets, concert/event posters and t-shirt designs for several bands. She has also illustrated two educational children books called Animal Protest and The Angry Mouflon written by Elena Erotokritou. Nikoletta’s work has also been published in the following magazines: “Delivering Views #11: From Cyprus With Love”, “Aegis”, “Havra Art” and “Silvae”. She also took part in a project by Write CY (The Comic Book Project), in which a group of young authors and artists combined their forces to create original comic book stories that were exhibited at the 2016 Cyprus Comic Con.

Check Nikoletta’s website and Facebook to see more of her incredible work!

Nikoletta also collaborated with the Copper Mouflon team to crate the front and back cover of their short Comic Book story called Demon’s Drive. She has also created the front and back cover Illustrations for the fantasy book called Island of Death by Marios Kyprianou which will be presented for the first time at Cyprus Comic Con 2019. In addition, Nikoletta has collaborated with the Sophia Foundation for Children, to create an illustration for their “Sophia With Love” charity exhibition.

Nikoletta was included in the 2008 D&AD Awards as an In-Book Selection, for creating a striking new look for the Space Opera book Series by the Orion Publishing Group. She was chosen amongst the best new-comer artists worldwide for the Illustration category.

She has been part of various exhibitions such as the 2008 New Blood D&AD Awards Exhibition, Ark – Under the Trees, Cyprus Comic Con (2015, 2016, 2017), the 9th and 10th Annual Akamantis Exhibition, the 2016 and 2017 Nicosia Pop Up Festival, the group exhibition “Love Bytes” 2017, Geek Fest 2018, the Kimera Collective group exhibition, Mainesthai” and the “Sophia With Love” exhibition.

Marios Kyprianou


Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome writer Marios Kyprianou to CCC19 Artists’ Alley!

Marios is a graduate of the silversmithing department and culinary school. He works as a chef, but since 2005 he started writing in his free time, which is his greatest passion. Marios was fascinated by the fantasy worlds portrayed in books, films and online games since he was little. He was mainly interested in things related to medieval times, magic and time travel. He decided to create a world of his own which contained every element he liked so he created the fantasy world of ‘’Έζελορ’’  and the book series titled Η επτάλφα των κρυστάλλων. Marios has written two books so far and he is currently in the process of writing the third one. The first book of the series Το νησί του θανάτου will be published in March of 2019 by Armida Publications.

Visit Marios’ Facebook page to find out more about his work!

Ourania Markou


Cyprus Comic Con is excited to have Ourania Markou to its Artists’ Alley for CCC19!

Ourania is a Cypriot citizen and she completed her studies in animation and FX at Falmouth University in Cornwall, United Kingdom. She decided to return to Cyprus after her graduation to have a break and save money before pursuing a Masters Degree. During that year Ourania got a proposition to work as an animator and graphic designer at a Norwegian company situated in Larnaca.

In addition, Ourania has been freelancing as an illustrator and character designer but her real passion is painting. She usually works with acrylics and watercolours but for quicker designs she chooses colouring pencils.

Visit Ourania’s website to see more of her impressive designs and artwork!

Neil Gibson & Tasos Anastasiades


We proudly welcome TPub‘s Neil Gibson & Tasos Anastasiades who will be featuring their new comic book, “The Traveller” at CCC2019’s Artists’ Alley!

“The Traveller”

Traveller is a steampunk adventure story set at the turn of the 19th century. Made using cutting-edge 3D modelling combined with traditional hand inking, the story focuses on the greater good and what price we are prepared to pay for it.

Free Copy: The duo have granted CCC fans an exclusive peek into the first issue of The Traveller! Download your copy of “The Traveller Issue 1”!

Neil and Tasos will be hosting a Panel at CCC19!

  • Saturday (20th of April)

Topic: How we made our comic using cutting edge tools, and how you can do it too


Neil Gibson

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“. TPub was launched in 2012 with the mission to bring more readers to comics. Make sure to check TPub’s website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!


Tasos Anastasiades

Tasos is an Assistant Professor at the European University Cyprus. In 2004, he started publishing “Plastic Comics”, the first comic book series created in Cyprus. In 2014, he published the graphic novel titled “Fascista” and became a publishing partner and contributing artist at the first Cypriot comic book anthology titled “Current“.

Tasos was involved in numerous cultural events and in 2017, he was selected by the Cyprus Embassy in Romania and the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture to represent his country at the 5th European Comics Festival organised by the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC). In addition, he is a webinar presenter /artist at “Digital Art Live” and of Smith Micro’s Poser Pro 11 software.