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Copper Mouflon (Christopher Demetriou & Stella Violari)

13/01/2019 by

Copper Mouflon are returning to the Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley!

Copper Mouflon is a cooperation between a writer, Christopher Demetriou, and an illustrator, Stella Violari,  both passionate about creating comics, who want to share their stories with the world

THE WRITER

Christopher Demetriou, proclaims a passion for stories of all types and is always on the lookout for a good twist. When he’s not writing stories, he’s either consuming them or contemplating the ceiling; he says it helps with creativity or something.

THE ARTIST

Stella Violari, studied illustration in the UK and has finished her MA in Cyprus. She uses both traditional and digital media for her drawings and likes to show beauty through unconventional ways. If she’s not holding a pen in her hands she’s probably playing video games.

To see more from Copper Mouflon, follow their website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!

Work by Copper Mouflon so far includes:

“Kingdom of the Red Rose”, Chapter 1: “The Reaper’s Choice”
“Kingdom of the Red Rose”, Chapter 2: “Train Wreck”
“Stay Centered” – a short illustrated story.
“Penrach Master”
“Last Moments” – a one-shot 12-page mini comic created in collaboration with WriteCy during a local comics writing class.
“Trial Run – Time Travel” part of an anthology with Arledge Comics, a US based independent creator.
“Demon’s Drive”, based on the world of George Belaouris.

They are currently working on a webcomic titled“Missing Pieces” that’s updated every 2 weeks. You can read some of their comics for FREE online here.

 

 

Anna Miltiadou

13/01/2019 by

We want to welcome Anna Miltiadou to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley!

Anna studied Graphic & Advertising Design and furthered her education by earning a Masters in Illustration. Her work is colourful and cheeky and is inspired by her everyday surroundings, pop culture and everything over, under and in between. The main project she’s been working on is her little Brainfarts.. I mean BrainFKRs. In the future she’d like to create small stories of those BrainFKR characters. They just need to stop bothering her all the time and let her think; they tend to be quite annoying…

Make sure to follow Anna’s Instagram to see more of her work!

 

Artist Profile: Demetris Panayides & Marios Yiangou

16/08/2017 by

Cyprus Comic Con’s Artists Alley welcomes back illustrator Demetres Panayides and writer Marios Yiangou, co-creators of comic book DÆMONIUM!

 

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”.

He is currently working on a new collaborative comic book project called DÆMONIUM together with writer and illustrator Marios Yiangou. The story of DÆMONIUM is based in Cyprus and the comic will be completed just in time for CCC’17!

Make sure to follow DÆMONIUM on Facebook!

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 is his first attempt at collaborating with another artist and presenting his work to the public. So, you know, be gentle…

Artist Profile: Christis Christoforou (Reddo)

12/08/2017 by

Christis Christoforou, also known as Reddo, will be joining this year’s Artists Alley!

Christis is a self taught artist that learned how to draw by experimenting with various manga and anime styles, inspired by titles such as Yu-Gi-Oh!, Bleach and BAKUMAN. He gets inspired not only by the drawing skills of his favourite artists but also by the unique and cool stories that each respective manga artist produces. He says that stories and character developments inspire him the most, rather than the drawings themselves. In the past, he had worked on short films, animating, drawing key frames and other various things that require good hand-drawing skills. He also experimented with tattoo design and graffiti, although nowadays he avoids that kind of work.

To see more of Christis’ illustrations, visit his art page on Facebook!

He spent one and a half years in Japan, learning the language while simultaneously getting as much feedback as he could from magazine and manga professors, in order to improve on his mistakes or bad habits. More specifically, he showed his draft manga to a manga teacher in Japan and an editor of Shonen Jump SQ magazine and was praised for his unique characters that were layered with deep personalities, while his art style was indistinguishable from native Japanese manga artists. The results and feedback he received made him confident that he is on the right track when it comes to manga.

Currently Christis is working his way up in the social media since he believes it is the best source to get attention and publicity nowadays. Furthermore, he is working on a concept for a mobile game, as well as polishing his manga stories. His future goals include to become someone that can produce any kind of project successfully and to live a life where everything he does is equally enjoyable as it is challenging.

 

Artist Profile: Gregory Santorineos

27/07/2017 by

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes illustrator and comics creator Gregory Santorineos, who will be showcasing his work at this year’s Artists’ Alley!

Gregory was born in Athens on 16/07/1971. He attended free-hand drawing lessons at Veloudakis art school under the guidance of Thodoris Pantos. He graduated from AKTO with a degree in Graphic Design, in 1995. In 2012, he participated in GC fanzine #3. Subsequently, he also contributed in the issues #4 and #5. His first personal project took form in 2014 and was called “Το ριζίτικο των Ανωγείων“, published by Comicon-Shop Renieri. Furthermore, he participated in “ΡΙΓΗ” issues #3 and #4, as well as in issues #2, #3 and #4 of “ΤΣΟΦΛΙ“, by the same publishing house.

He collaborated with the Editor’s Journal at KARE KARE with “Η Μέρα της κρίσης” (Judgement Day). In 2016, he began working with the Canadian online games company VESUVIUS MEDIA, that aimed to promote their games through comics. He has participated in various group exhibitions, including “ΚΟΜΙΚΟΜΑΝΙΑ”, “ME ΠΕΝΑΚΙ ΚΑΙ ΣΚΑΠΑΝΗ” and “CIVIL WAR”. In the second Athens Con, he participated in an exhibition titled “ΕΝΟΣ ΚΑΚΟΥ ΜΥΡΙΑ ΕΠΟΝΤΑΙ”.

To see more of Gregory’s work, visit his personal artist page on Facebook.