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May 26, 2011
Molly Crabapple Digital Sketchbook
Available today for USD 4.99 at Thwipster.
Molly's work reminds us of the dream we had after drinking large amounts of mushroom-infused tea, falling down some steep European stairs and winding up in an Amsterdam hospital. Anthropomorphized pigs in bowler hats, Dorian Gray, half-naked women, Victorian carnival performers, suave Octopi…
Steve Rolston
Houdini
Steve Rolston
May 25, 2011
Ah, Comics: A Map Of A Cyborg Head, With Narration, 1974
Artist Rick Buckler, writer Doug Moench, "Deathlok The Demolisher," ASTONISHING TALES #25, Marvel Comics, 1974.
BUG JACK BARRON Ebook
I've written several times about Norman Spinrad's seminal 1960s sf novel BUG JACK BARRON before, and how it was one of the formative influences behind my TRANSMETROPOLITAN. It's now been republished as an ebook by an outfit called Reanimus. Here's the Amazon.com link. Here's the Reanimus link. I haven't downloaded it myself, so I can't speak to the quality of the transfer. The ebook "cover" is, yes, appalling. If you're coming to BUG JACK BARRON for the first time, you will find it didn't date so well in certain areas, including language and sexual politics (during its serialisation in NEW WORLDS, a fact which led to the magazine being denounced by the goverment, it's reported that the magazine's own feminist typesetters wouldn't go near the thing. And that was then). It was written in 1967 by an angry sf author, and it's raw and ugly. It was also a horribly prescient book in many ways. An angry American sf author, who was really writing about the media and political landscapes of his time, ramped up to eye-burning glare by the amplifying power of speculative extrapolation.
And the fact that it was banged out in '67 means that, in Norman's own words:
BUG JACK BARRON–denounced on the floor of the British Parliament, the basis of a famous unmade movie in Hollywood held captive by Universal, more or less in continuous print for four decades in France, nominated for various awards, published in more languages than I can remember, reprinted in more editions in the US than I can remember, generally considered one of my magnum opuses and certainly the most famous–could not have an ebook edition because it was written on a typewriter.
Here's an introduction to BUG JACK BARRON by Mike Moorcock.
Ben Templesmith
whom I will not be seeing at London MCM...
Ben Templesmith
whom I will not be seeing at London MCM Expo, which is saddening
there's a print of this, you know
My London MCM Expo Signing
I'm signing stuff in the Comics Village area of MCM Expo this coming Saturday from 2pm to 3pm.
That's it.
I'm literally just getting on a train, getting a cab from the train station to the hotel, dumping my bag at the hotel, going to the con site to sign stuff for an hour, then going to the pub. Expo, for me, is really just an excuse to see a few old friends like Kieron Gillen and Emma Vieceli.
Check out the guest list. I literally do not know who ninety percent of these people are, but you might.
Please don't bring great big boxes of stuff, and please be conscious of the people waiting behind you to have their own books defaced by a very tired old man with a Sharpie.
Hope to see some of you there.
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Back from a beer and brainpunching session with BERG in London. My head hurts. For many reasons. Organic ale is not my friend. And probably neither are you. I want to be in bed. And probably not with you. BUT:
There is no crying in warren ellis dot com. Or pain. There is only work. And brain.
May 24, 2011
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