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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.

 

Yuncumber (Marina Alexikou)

08/02/2019 by

Cyprus comic con wants to welcome Yuncumber (Marina Alexikou) to this year’s Artists’ Alley!

Marina is a self-taught artist currently studying something unrelated to art. She always loved watching anime, since her cousin influenced her from a very young age. However, now that she is older she finds herself drawn to the art of manga and comics more.

She has been drawing ever since she could remember, but she started trying her luck with conventions and exhibitions the past couple of years. She has taken part in the Run Thessaloniki: Anime Con in 2016, as well as the 3rd and 4th Comic Con Thessaloniki. Moreover, this year she joined a few Unofficial Fanzines for the anime/manga “My Hero Academia” and “Haikyuu!!”.

Finally, Marina and her best friend have been trying to write a manga story that they hope to publish one day!

You can follow Marina’s Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Deviantart account to see more of her work!

Design By Stavri (Stavri Symeonidou)

26/01/2019 by

We want to welcome back Design By Stavri (Stavri Symeonidou) to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley!

Stavri Symeonidou is a graphic designer and an illustrator based in the city of Limassol, Cyprus. She is a graduate from Frederick University, Cyprus (BA in Graphic and Advertising Design) and the University of the West of England (MA in Media in Graphic Arts). Stavri participated in various exhibitions, conventions and other events. She is currently working on expanding her business endeavors by managing her new Etsy shop which was launched during 2018 among other new exciting projects.

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

Marios Ppoulis

26/01/2019 by

Marios Ppoulis is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley!

Marios is a young 27-year-old artist who is currently based in Larnaca. He discovered his skills in drawing and painting at a very young age. Through the years, he has competed in a variety of art-related competitions for drawing and painting. He completed his studies in Fine Art, at Liverpool John Moore’s University in the United Kingdom.

Marios is now the proud owner of his own studio and art gallery in Larnaca, where he creates his paintings, his tattoo designs and even portraits. He is a huge fan of comics and Japanese manga and has an extensive portfolio of original artwork as well as fan art of his favourite superhero, video game and movie characters, which you will all get to see at this year’s Cyprus Comic Con!

To see more of Marios’ paintings and illustrations, you can follow him on Instagram.

 

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Costis Papatheodorou

19/01/2019 by

We want to welcome Costis Papatheodorou to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley!

Costis Papatheodorou is a Greek artist  based in Athens. He started working as an art director in ad agencies for international and regional clients. He soon realised that what he really wanted to do was to become an illustrator. Costis achieved his dream and has been working as an illustrator for the past 15 years.

His illustrations have been featured as cover, interior pieces and tutorials for international media such as Newsweek int. edition, L’ Echo des Savanes and Photoshop Creative magazine. Besides working as an advertising illustrator, Costis also finds great joy in painting portraits and caricatures.

To see more of Costis’ amazing artwork, make sure to check his website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube channel.