Behind Every Project is
A Passionate Team
Creators of Cyprus Comic Con - your full-service creative multitool for code, design, marketing, and live experiences at the heart of Cyprus' biggest pop culture event.
What does "Dondake" even mean?
Pronounced don-da-keh, it is a playful Japanese slang term that loosely translates to "seriously?!" - usually said with dramatic flair when reacting to something unexpected or over-the-top. It perfectly captures our spirit as a team: creative, bold, a bit ridiculous, and always pushing boundaries. We're not your typical agency - and we like it that way.
Why We Work
We are five very different people with very different skills, which is honestly the whole point. We were friends first and business partners second, and that probably explains why this works. One of us might be thinking about design, another about code, another about logistics, another about partnerships, and another about how to get people to actually care. Separately, that would be chaos. Together, it works weirdly well.
Insight meets execution - and that's what makes us a powerhouse.
We're not the kind of team that throws an idea over the wall and hopes someone else figures it out. We make the thing, brand the thing, market the thing, build the thing, organise the thing, and then probably stay up too late fixing the thing.
That mix means we can move across branding, design, digital, marketing, partnerships, logistics, and live events without pretending to be a giant agency with fifty departments and a pointless flowchart.
Cyprus Comic Con is the best example of how that works: five people with different brains, different strengths, and one shared baby that somehow grew into something massive.
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Our baby, Cyprus Comic Con
Cyprus Comic Con is the biggest, weirdest, most demanding thing we've built together, and we mean that lovingly. It takes all five of us doing what we do best at the same time: design, code, marketing, logistics, partnerships, guest wrangling, problem solving, and the occasional controlled panic.
What started in 2014 as a one-day university event somehow grew into Cyprus' biggest pop culture event and one of the region's most ambitious creative conventions. By 2025, it had grown to more than 11,000 square metres, with about 32,000 ticketed visitors and up to 8,000 more coming through the free outdoor festival and parallel events.
We're the full-time core team behind it, which means we've had our hands in everything from branding and staging to partnerships, international guest bookings, ticketing, comms, and making sure the whole thing doesn't catch fire.
It's not just a big weekend out, either. CCC brings together cosplay, gaming, STEM, film, music, food, fandom, and a lot of gloriously niche nonsense under one roof. It gives Cypriot talent a proper stage, pulls in international guests and creators, and creates space for everyone from indie developers to medieval reenactors. In 2025, that meant more than 300 creators, over 100 exhibitors, and a very healthy mix of local and international participation.
So yes, we call it our baby because we built it from scratch, stressed over it for years, and watched it become far bigger than the original plan. If you want proof that we can turn a chaotic idea into something real, this is it.
Recognition
Special Award at the 2nd CBN Young Dragon Awards
In February 2026, the five of us were honoured with the Special Award Young Dragon Entrepreneurs at the 2nd CBN Young Dragon Awards.
We are genuinely proud of it, not just because it is an award, but because it recognises the years of work behind Dondake and Cyprus Comic Con: the long days, the risky ideas, the constant problem-solving, and the stubborn belief that we could build something meaningful together.
For us, it matters because it recognises the team as a whole. Different skills, different personalities, one shared effort - and a lot of care poured into building something that grew far beyond its original size.
Read the CBN articleMeet Our Team
Our Journey
OtakuCy
A fandom becomes a family
OtakuCy is an anime and cosplay community that laid the groundwork for future events.
Cyprus Comic Con is Born
A group of friends dreams bigger
The idea for Cyprus Comic Con started as a casual conversation at our spiritual home and local comic book shop.
The First CCC
From idea to actual event
The first Cyprus Comic Con launched as a one-day event at the European University Cyprus and brought in around 4,000 visitors.
Levelled Up to Filoxenia
CCC outgrows its first venue
After CCC14's overwhelming success, we moved to the Filoxenia Conference Centre in Nicosia.
Move to the Largest Venue in CY
Cyprus State Fair is where it's at!
We outgrew Filoxenia and relocated to the Cyprus State Fair grounds - and never looked back. It remains the largest venue in Cyprus.
Pandemic Pause
A quiet break - but not for long
CCC went on hiatus from 2020 to 2022, but the community never stopped growing.
Dondake Launchpad
We quit our jobs to go all in!
Five full-time organisers dedicated 100% to CCC and Dondake client projects.
Record Breaking Year
22,000 visitors
CCC becomes the biggest event of its kind in Cyprus, drawing 22,000 attendees to its biggest edition up to that point.
Full Year Activation
Mall Events + Flagships
Expanded CCC to 8+ themed events a year across different venues and formats.
Bigger Than Ever
40k main event + 400 exhibitors
CCC hit a new level in 2025 with around 40,000 attendees at the main event and more than 400 exhibitors.