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    • Εργαστήριο comics στους "Κοσμοναύτες"

    Posted on by Kostas

    Στον πολυχώρο “Κοσμοναύτες”, ένας νέος χώρος που ανοίγει τις πόρτες του αυτό το μήνα, θα λειτουργήσουν εργαστήρια υποκριτικής, ζωγραφικής, φωτογραφίας, χορού και πολλά άλλα σε μια προσπάθεια να καλυφθεί ενα ευρύ φάσμα ενδιαφερόντων. Εκεί θα βρίσκομαι και γω φέτος για την λειτουργία ενός εργαστηρίου πάνω στα comics.
     
     
    Για πληροφορίες καλέστε 2114068407-6937118866
        
    Την Κυριακή 17 του μήνα* απο τις 6 το απόγευμα μπορείτε να περάσετε για ένα καφέ και μια πρώτη γνωριμία με το αντικείμενο των εργαστηρίων και τους ανθρώπους που τα πραγματοποιούν.

    * και οχι στις 10 όπως ανέφερα λανθασμένα στο αρχικό post.

    Mused

    Posted on by Kostas

    Although the first 18-page story is already on-line on my website for quite some time now, I haven’t really said anything about it yet. “Mused” is a webcomic I recently started to work on, but in reality the actual idea behind it, is far from what you might call fresh.

    Τhe main characters along with countless notes and story ideas, can be found even in ten years old sketchbooks and various scraps of paper around my studio.  I never seem to get a clear vision what to do with them, but the ideas kept pilling up regardless. This thing somehow kept demanding my attention. I needed to get it out of my system and the internet seemed a good place to start.

    Stay tuned, I’ll tweet about it, every time there is something new to read.

    On with the show.

    AnimArt 2010

    Posted on by Kostas

     I just got back from this year’s AnimArt. The 10-day animation workshop up in the mountains, where I got to hang out with good friends and make new ones. Cool people from all sorts of places teamed up making some amazing clips. Claymation, 2d and 3d animation, you name it. Between the heavy drinking, staying up all night and playing ping-pong, we managed to complete a 2 minutes animation 2d short with a little help from our new friends, just in time for the final screening day of the whole workshop.

    Great train ride!
    Setup gear in place.
    Getting started
    work work work!
    Cheetos-fueled, all-nighter.
    Last day. Final stretch. Hard at work.
    Last scene! looks like we are gonna make it!
    Done! Mission accomplished in just two days! Now back to playing ping-pong!

    Flight volume 7 is almost here.

    Posted on by Kostas

      The amazing annual “Flight” anthology is about to release volume 7 on July 20, 2010 just before this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego.
    A preview of all the stories in the book is already online, and you can pre-order it from Amazon.

    I have been a huge fan of the series from the very beginning, six years ago, and a first time contributor for which I feel really proud and incredibly honored. My story is titled “Premium cargo” and I hope you like it.

                
    If I have anything to say about Flight is without any doubt from the  reader’s point of view and it’s definitely useless to pretend I could ever be objective about it.   

    The Flight volumes along with very few other books are resting on a shelve marked as “special” in my mind. They are not special because of their amazing craftsmanship. I have lots of other books filled with that too on nearby shelves. Not because of their great stories or the ideas expressed within them. I have lots of these too. These books are special to me, not because they gave me plenty of reasons to admire and appreciate them -and they most certainly did- but because of the connection that was established between us when we met. I am not sure anyone can actually describe the experience, so in lack of better words let’s just say, we became friends.

    Do you happen to have any book that you never seem to get tired of reading? A book that although it exhibits great virtues in all sorts of ways, you never really care much to compare it with others? It’s like some kind of communion took place. Something was shared that seems to transcends the boundaries of the actual medium involved.  It’s not necessarily something big or profound. It’s just there.

    Suddenly you see too much of yourself poured inside its pages. You can never be objective about it again. You don’t even want to. It’s out of the competition and on its way to the “special” shelve.

    Now, you might think that I am biased beyond remedies, and you are probably right, but I honestly think you are in for a treat -yet again- with this latest volume.