Warren Ellis's Blog, page 142
April 10, 2011
Bookmarks for 2011-04-09
"For the last year I've been more visible about being genderqueer. It's an identity I feel is very important to put forward, especially as I find myself receiving more mainstream attention, though I could just as easily identify with any number of other identities I hold to my being. Despite the fact that I've used the word "genderqueer", I realized I haven't shared much on my site about what the term means to me."
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Gendercide in India: Add sugar and spice | The Economist
"If sex ratios stay the same, 600,000 missing girls this year will become, in 18 years' time, over 10m missing future brides. Robbery, rape and bride-trafficking tend to increase in any society with large groups of young single men. And because in China and India men higher up the social ladder find wives more easily than those lower down, the social problems of bachelorhood tend to accumulate like silt among the poorest people and (in India) the lowest castes."
(tags:social )
Man stranded in empty Japanese town since tsunami – Yahoo! News
"The farmhouse sits at the end of a mud-caked, one-lane road strewn with toppled trees, the decaying carcasses of dead pigs and large debris deposited by the March 11 tsunami. Stranded alone inside the unheated, dark home is 75-year-old Kunio Shiga. He cannot walk very far and doesn't know what happened to his wife. His neighbors have all left because the area is 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant — just within the zone where authorities have told everyone to get out because of concerns about leaking radiation. No rescuer ever came for him."
(tags:bloody+hell )
Portal 2: Lab Rat – Part 1 – Comics Preview at IGN
Valve's Portal tie-in comic by Mike Avon Oeming
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April 9, 2011
Bookmarks for 2011-04-09
"The graceful dance between three stars seen by the Kepler telescope has drawn the attention of astronomers because it is not accompanied by a song."
(tags:space )
BLDGBLOG: Two Water Tables
Who I Am And Where I Am (April 2011)
My name's Warren Ellis. I write comics, graphic novels, books, journalism and anything else that people pay money for. Sometimes I even go out in public. I live in south-east England.
I'm the writer of the graphic novel RED, the film version of which (starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman & Helen Mirren) came out in October. I'm the writer of the GRAVEL graphic novels, under development for film by Legendary Pictures. I also wrote the novel CROOKED LITTLE VEIN. I have an Amazon.com page here. (Ignore anything it says about LISTENER, that book was lost and cancelled years ago.)
I write here almost every day. A collection of the writing I've done here and elsewhere on the internet, SHIVERING SANDS, was published in 2009.
Quick links: Whitechapel (message board) – Twitter – an Official Warren Ellis Page on that Facebook thing – a store of Things at CafePress.
(I do have a personal page on that Facebook thing, but I only add people I know, really)
You can also find me on Instagram as warrenellis. I have a Tumblr that I pretty much only use for reblogging stuff I find on Tumblr and the occasional note. It's not very interesting. You don't want the link.
For people wanting to send me to their sites, wanting to email stuff or tell me about new music or send me tips or whatever, I've set up a Gmail account that I check once every day or so: warrenellis@gmail.com. This isn't, I stress, my main email account, and it's not for asking me when some comic's coming out (there's a FAQ for that). Always interested in new music, new art, new connections, dirty pictures, madness etc.
If you need to contact me about writing for print or web, please contact my agent Lydia Wills using the link in the righthand menu bar.
If you need to contact me about anything involving film, tv, games or other things that move, please contact my agent Angela Cheng Caplan using the link in the righthand menu bar.
If you (for god knows what reason) wanted to send me something physical… um, well, you can't, right now. My book agent got flooded with stuff of late, and I feel terrible about drowning them in things like that. So we stopped that. But apparently The Post Office here in the UK has changed the way it does PO boxes now, and I cannot puzzle it out. So. Eventually I'll have one of those. Or not. Sorry. You can always just email me about it.
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April 7, 2011
Simon Spurrier's A SERPENT UNCOILED
I'm going to want a copy of this:
Dan Shaper's sins are a sickness.
Working as a fixer in London's criminal underworld has brought him to the edge of breakdown, and the drugs don't bury the nightmares like they used to. He needs to straighten-up and rebuild his life, but instead gets the attention of his old gangland masters and a job-offer from George Glass: an eccentric old man convinced he's secretly an ancient Messiah. Normally Shaper would recoil from Glass's senile brand of New Age salvation, but the case is as tantalising as it is lucrative:
A missing mobster. A bizarre spiritualist society. Three accidental deaths, unconnected but for a chilling forensic detail. And a note:
"You're on a list."
Adrift amidst liars and thugs, Shaper must push his capsizing mind beyond its limits: stalked not only by a unique and terrifying murderer, but by the ghosts of his own brutal past.
THREE PANELS: Paul Sizer
Paul Sizer is a graphic novelist, illustrator, designer and teacher. He is therefore a hugely busy man, and I'm delighted he took time out of his schedule (which currently includes design and concept work with Thomas Dolby on the latter's new album and online game A MAP OF THE FLOATING CITY) to make you Three Panels:
You can find him at paulsizer.com, and at his dA gallery.
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April 6, 2011
Bookmarks for 2011-04-06
"Queen's researchers have discovered that nanoparticles, which are now present in everything from socks to salad dressing and suntan lotion, may have irreparably damaging effects on soil systems and the environment."
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Digital Inflections: Visions for the Posthuman Future « Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture
The Rites Of Spring
But I live in hope that the weather will hold, and that tonight I can charge up my netbook so that tomorrow I can work in the garden. Where the wi-fi in the office doesn't quite reach, and where my mobile broadband stick seems not to quite work, but what the hell. I do, after all, have kind of a lot of work to do.
Another amazing shot by Mathieu Struck.
So the SECRET AVENGERS thing got announced, and I did a few interviews. No idea what the reception was, as I really tend to avoid comics blogs comments and comics message boards and the like. But I haven't been fired yet, so that's something. I'm a fair way into my third script for the series right now – Marvel already have those pages and have sent them out to an artist already. Had to turn down another job at Marvel the other day, which kind of dented my heart a bit – I love the work of the artist involved. But Big New Thing is announced on April 11, and that and a couple of Media Things are going to have the vast bulk of my attention over the next several months.
(And, just like that, the press release for Big New Thing arrived for approval.)
I'm highly unlikely, at this point, to have a longform webcomics project to immediately replace FREAKANGELS – I'm twelve episodes from the end. Off into obscurity I go! Or, at least, into Act Two.
And I'm out of time and should press Publish now or it won't happen until tomorrow.
Best of luck to Nate Simpson with NONPLAYER today, and of course Matt Fraction and Stuart Immonen with FEAR ITSELF.
Dumbarse Lede Of The Day
With efforts underway to ban lead-based ammunition as a potential health and environmental hazard, scientists are reporting new evidence that a prime alternative material for bullets — tungsten — may not be a good substitute The report, which found that tungsten accumulates in major structures of the immune system in animals, appears in ACS' journalChemical Research in Toxicology.
That's right. Bullets are a health hazard. And tungsten bullets might accumulate in the body.
THREE PANELS: Pia Guerra
You all know Pia Guerra. Co-creator and illustrator of Y THE LAST MAN. Slew of awards. Hugely respected and brilliant artist. Pia's great, and I love her work too. So I asked her to do Three Panels. Whatever she liked.
And she sent me this. Because she hates me.
You can find Pia on Twitter too.
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