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September 27, 2010

On Being Prolific

Brad Rose, at the newly-redesigned Foxy Digitalis site:

…how prolific is too prolific or is there even such a thing? And to further expand on that – what are the problems with prolific-ness and what are the positive aspects? The big question I would ask is why do you think an artist being prolific is a problem?

Quality control is an obvious answer, but at the same time it seems like a lot of artists who are releasing an extreme amount of material are doing it from a perspective of sharing in...

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Published on September 27, 2010 08:15

Station Ident: It's Close, It's Very Close

Ariana knocked this together last night during a discussion with friends. It's actually pretty close.


Good morning. Let's try not to have a week like last week, eh?


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Published on September 27, 2010 05:24

September 25, 2010

Click through to a video interview with the other Warren ...

Click through to a video interview with the other Warren Ellis and Nick Cave. Scrub through to 6.10, to discover what Nick Cave thinks should happen to me. (Also, a nice plug for the French edition of my novel.)

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Published on September 25, 2010 10:43

Kemper Norton's LOWENDER

A new EP from Kemper Norton, dealer in "slurtronic" drunken spook music, is always a good thing. Saturday is improved. You can download it for free at this link.



An overstimulated and unstable celebration of Cornish festivals. Lowender means "happiness" in Cornish.


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Published on September 25, 2010 09:42

September 24, 2010

Links for 2010-09-24

At MadCon, an ailing Harlan Ellison will say goodbye – Isthmus – The Daily Page
""The truth of what's going on here is that I'm dying," says Ellison, by phone. "I'm like the Wicked Witch of the West — I'm melting. I began to sense it back in January. By that time, I had agreed to do the convention. And I said, I can make it. I can make it.'""
(tags:well+shit people doom )Building a digital library for life on Earth
"The largest biodiversity genomics initiative ever undertaken – an international...
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Published on September 24, 2010 15:00

The Other Non-Physical Shoe

From Robot6:

…this past Wednesday Walking Dead #77 not only arrived in comic shops, but also hit the Image Comics and comiXology iPad applications. It's priced at $2.99, the same as a physical copy; previous issues have been priced at $1.99.

Image publisher Eric Stephenson spoke with ComicsAlliance about it, noting that it isn't a one-time thing:

"In terms of scheduling, the digital version of the series has caught up to print version, so it makes sense to release both simultaneously,"...

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Published on September 24, 2010 13:32

On Wildstorm, At iFanboy

The last of my notes on the closure of the Wildstorm imprint. I actually managed to say different stuff in all three of them, I think.


I wouldn't have been able to do GLOBAL FREQUENCY anywhere else.

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Published on September 24, 2010 08:40

Clearing Out The Comments Bin

I am beloved by nutters everywhere.


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Published on September 24, 2010 08:06

September 23, 2010

Quote Of The Night

"On a perfect comic book earth I would have a red phone that rang the moment anyone anywhere drew a comic with goats involved in airplane dogfights."


– Brandon Graham

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Published on September 23, 2010 18:28

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