A peek into my planned graphic novels and projects
After planning it for some time, in September 2011 I moved to Brighton, UK to continue my studies and thus I enrolled at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton.
The course itself is not as demanding as I thought it would be, but when the projects amass, then the shit hits the fan and I have to come up with and create loads of preliminary sketches, rough editions of projects and then, after interim crits, final editions, so this is quite time consuming and I have to timemanage myself quite harshly in order to create a schedule to do my comics, music etc.
So, back to comics! Right when I got to Brighton in Septembe 2011, I noticed a flyer that advertised a nationwide graphic novel competition held by Myriad Editions, which had a deadline on October 1st, 2011. Having already begun my Dryland graphic novel (I was at 22 pages at the time), I rushed to greyscale/colour in all the pages and letter them in order to submit it in time! And I did! By November 2011 I was sent an e-mail from Myriad telling me that I was in the top 25 and by Christmas 2011I was told I was in the top 7 finalists. i attended the final event where the winner was announced (as chosen by Bryan Talbot, Ian Rankin, Paul Gravett and other esteemed artists and critics) and I managed to get a lot of great feedback.
After the event I managed to get my stuff together and I self-published the first chapter of Dryland, as DRYLAND Book One///Chapter One and I booked a table at the May 2012 Kapow Comic Con held in London in which I managed to sell quite a few copies and land a deal to have the whole first book/graphic novel published by an esteemed publisher (more on that in the future)!
At the same time as I began drawing Dryland I also started planning my "Tales of The Smiths" graphic novel. It needed a lot of researching, as most of the biographies written about them, as well as The Smiths themselves, contradict one-another in regards to the facts and I need to be as precise as possible. The first episode was published in the back of my DRYLAND Book One///Chapter One comic and the rest of the episodes will be serialised online daily from socomic.gr starting September 3, 2012 and hopefully the rest will be collected and published in a single format graphic novel.
Other than the above stuff, I'm also writing a new concept album that will follow up my previous one and I'm currently rehearsing and gigging with a new band that I put together in Brighton,Ghosts of Future Past, in order to unleash my musical vision upon this world! More news on that wonderful project will be announced in the near futrue! Till then, log onto our Facebook page, Like it and listen to our music and videos! yay!
In the meantime, if and when I find the time I will definitely end my Giant-Size Fascists trilogy comicbook with a third issue, as the series essentially led to my most successful comic to date and I've had people ask all the time when the heck am I going to bring some closure to the darn cliffhanger that ended the second collection.
Well, that's about it! As my life progresses in the UK, I will be updating this entry with more info, images and so on, so keep your eyes peeled on the newspage on the frontpage for updates!
The future is definitely what you make of it.
DRYLAND
Written and drawn by Con Chrisoulis
A series of meta-physical events led to my being named after a long-lost relative thus I was always intrigued and curious to learn what my family's history was all about. There are pivotal moments in my family's oral tradition, a series of tragic deaths, that have shaped us into what we are today. At some point I figured that i am probably the last member of the younger generation interested in learning about these tales of unbelievably tragic and epic proportions and I realised that they will be lost if not put to paper somehow; besides this realisation, I found that with every piece of evidence that I discovered the puzzle that I consist of slowly strated to fill itself. Thus Dryland was born. A series in the making, about the tragic deaths of many of my ancestors and how they all interconnected and funneled into my present psyche.
Click here to read more about my Dryland series, purchase the publication of Dryland Book One///Chapter One and read a segment of it, as well as a commentary on the entire first chapter!
Written and drawn by Con Chrisoulis
I've been fascinated with The Smiths ever since discovering them in my late teens. Having been a metalhead and and later on a grungehead and a britpopper, once I discovered The Smiths my outview on what music and lyrics mean changed considerably; that and the fact that the whole mystique surrounding the band's origins when they were unknown and specifically Morrissey's youth made me research and read book after book about the Mancunian legends. At some point it dawned upon me that a straight forward graphic retelling of these mysterious years was never really created and I set about researching and putting together a graphic novel about their unknown early years.
Click here to check out some pages from my Smiths graphic novel and find the links to read the first episodes
GSF3 (GIANT-SIZE FASCISTS #3)
Written and drawn by Con Chrisoulis
Having had too many everyday life problems rise, since releasing the last 'Giant-Size Fascists' comic, I believe that some time in the near future a third book will be released to close the 'trilogy'. I've had a lot of interested fans quering about this, but the truth is that my daily routine and, frankly, projects that may prove financially more fruitful have taken priority in my life. When this book will be released I do not know. It all depends on how financially secure I am in the immediate future, how much free time I have in my hands and how intrigued I am in ridiculing Greek politics, because at the moment just thinking about it gives me a headache (and frustrates me even more).
Click here to check out some of the pages that I have done for GSF3 and some weird pin-ups
In late 2011 I relocated to Brighton, UK. One of my first priorities was to form a new band, rehearse, write a new concept album and connect it to my previous concept album that I played with my first band Autodivine.
The band has been formed, we have begun rehearsing and I am in the midst of writing the new songs. Hopefully by mid-2012 we will begin gigging the new (and some of the old) material as well!
Click here to listen to some studio rehearsal demos of my new band, The Ghosts of Future Past