Warren Ellis's Blog, page 148
March 20, 2011
Bookmarks for 2011-03-20
"An experiment has shed light on how Iron Age people communicated from their hilltop homes 2,500 years ago."
(tags:history comms )
A Shelter in Bolinas | je suis le petit chevalier
"Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier is collecting psych gems for your shrunken ears. Based in the north of Europe, the lonely knight uses woods, electrics, naked elbows and fire."
(tags:music bandcamp )
March 19, 2011
What I'm Working On Tonight
No, really.
The stuff in block caps there is the dialogue. The comic is going to be lettered in upper case, so I write the dialogue etc in upper case, which gives me an idea of how it's going to look when it's lettered. Which is important. Some text effects in sentence case simply don't translate to upper case. I indent it for ease of reading and also for the same reason as above – I can kind of squint at it and guess roughly how the balloons will look. Also, I have a rule of thumb – if one of those pieces of dialogue had run to a third line, then it's getting a bit long for a single balloon. If it runs to a fourth line, then it's going to need cutting, or be the only balloon in the panel unless it's a really big panel.
Bookmarks for 2011-03-19
"a new platform that allows anyone to record or upload audio, and then "pin" it to physical locations. Broadcastr then indexes and curates that audio for playback via Web or smartphone, where it can be filtered and shared in the usual ways."
(tags:cities net audio )
Music bloggers move from touting bands to booking them
"Blog-sponsored shows mark a shift in the music marketing industry, which has been transformed by the Internet. The shift from major-label marketing to building a devoted core of fans through word-of-mouth promotion is fueled by bloggers who champion their favorite artists."
(tags:music net )
March 18, 2011
Bookmarks for 2011-03-18
"God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar."
(tags:history cult )
March 17, 2011
The FANTASTIC FOUR Remake/Remodel
So every few weeks I do a game on my message board where I set up the conditions for doing a visual revamp on an old character or title from books and comics and let artists go at it for one week. This week I said this:
You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for a comic called THE FANTASTIC FOUR. It is issue 1 of this book.
You have been told that the comic is about four people who steal a spaceship, fly into space, get heavily irradiated by cosmic rays, and return to earth weirdly altered by their experience.
And that's it. The bastards haven't told you one more damn thing than that. Not a clue. They might all be women. It might be about the Indian space programme twenty years from now. For all you know this is a JG Ballard story, for christ's sake…
It's up to you what kind of company you're at. What kind of comics you make. How you translate that description of The Fantastic Four. What era you're in. Who you are, even. Go nuts with it.
A couple of examples of what's happened so far.
Chris G's brain caught on fire.
And Paul Sizer went uberSizer.
And, um, Chip Zdarsky, aka Canadian National Post cartoonist Steve Murray, went… there.
It runs until Sunday. Go and look at all the other wonderful takes in the thread, and join in if you feel like it.
Really, really wish I could make it to this.
Really, really wish I could make it to this.
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