Kronos City

Monday, 18 October 2010

The residents of Kronos City have a new home

This weekend was a big one - all the creators of Kronos City were at the BICS comic expo in Birmingham, with The Sleepless Phoenix launching 'Survival Stories,' the first anthology from the collective, featuring the print comics debut of Andrew, Alex and Lauren. Jim is old hat by now. The rest of us are new hats.

The even more momentous occasion was the official signing of Kronos City to Time Bomb Comics, with the lovely Steve Tanner. Contracts have been signed, hands have been shook and we can finally break the news, which has been all kinds of good after a few months of uncertainty.

We'll be back updating the blog more regularly with more of the previews and features which I'm sure you came to know and love. And to kick us off, I've been sitting on this picture I drew of all the main residents of Kronos City like a bottle of champagne waiting for the right special occasion.

And we have photos! Horray for photos.

This is Lauren and her shoulder as she signs Survival Stories. Look at that quality handwriting.

Alex appears to be just flicking through his instead of signing it. I'm sure he found a blank page somewhere to sign.

I look more like an office clerk than an excited author. I assure you I was dancing on the inside.

Monday, 29 March 2010

Andrew on the radio

Andrew shall be on the raydeeoh in about 10 min on

http://tinyurl.com/listenfeilefm

Monday, 8 March 2010

Chapter 5 Preview

A splash page from chapter 5 of Kronos City

Script: Andrew Croskery

B&W Art: Alex Willmore

Colour: Lauren Anne Sharp

Letters: Jim Campbell

Insomnia Publications 2010

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Karl buys a kitty!

Script: Andrew Croskery

Art: Alex Willmore

Kronos City will be running a monthly 'Karl' strip. Any writers or artists who want to get involved - just get in touch!

kronoscity[at]googlemail[dot]com

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Kronos City Facebook Group

Hi everyone!

I've just set up a Kronos City facebook group. It's fairly empty now but I'll try to upload some goodies to it.http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/Kronos-City/188703555669?ref=ts

Invite your friends!

Andrew

Sunday, 22 November 2009

Kronos City is Winner

Alex and I have just returned from the Thought Bubble Convention in Leeds. We had a brilliant day, beginning with a talk by Nigel Dobbyn about the way comic art has moved from traditional to digital, with the pros and cons of each. We also attended the cosplay event, to see what everyone had come up with. It wasn't quite to the same standard as the London MCM show, but we still has a great time. My personal favourite was Laguna from Final Fantasy VIII, who began shouting the fanfare and the whole room joined in.

Alex and I were able to meet Jim for the first time, which was brilliant. The Karl pictures were brought along in a portfolio and shown off. We'll definitely have to run another of those at some point!

In the evening we attended the after show party with friends and went to the Dr Sketchy Leeds Burlesque Life Drawing. It was incredibly fun, beginning with 5 quick sketches and leading into two competitions. The first was a left handed (or right handed if you are left handed) competition, which Alex won! The next competition was drawing in the style of your favourite artist. As I didn't have acrylics, canvas and varnish and a good few days I decided to go with the event and draw in the style of whoever drew Jessica Rabbit. On telling my friend Lou this, she asked if that was Beatrix Potter, so that's what I ended up with. I was given second place for my efforts and was awarded with a balloon dog, which Alex and I named Dogsvin.

Overall? A brilliant weekend!

Thursday, 19 November 2009

How Do You See Karl? The Results!

Well, this has been a fun fortnight watching the entries come in! I think all of us were very worried when we started this non-Competition that there would be nothing to show here! The idea of creating pseudonyms and new art styles was tossed around, but luckily it did not have to come to that. There's a really different range of art here, which was exactly what we were after! We'll be taking all of these to Leeds tomorrow so we'll be posting soon after to show how it all went!

All of us at Kronos City want to say a great big thank you to everyone who got involved. We know a lot of you who sent in work have a lot on the go so we really appreciate the effort. We'd also like to say a special thank you to video game folk punk band Elfonso who all got involved!

The entries are listed in the order they were sent in, with Joe Willes doing his Karl the day after the non-competition was announced, and Stephen Downey sending his literally minutes before we put this blog up!

Keep checking back to the blog, as there will be more of these non-competitions to come, and who knows, we might even turn them into actual competitions, with prizes!