Warren Ellis's Blog, page 205
September 23, 2010
Links for 2010-09-23
Blast from the past: BULLET comic.
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The Digital Innovator Interviews: James Bridle on E-books, Google, and ?The Long Prose Curse?
?There?s still an incredible lack of understanding about e-books,? says Bridle, ?and the people who are doing the educating are Apple and Amazon, which means they are taking the market very quickly and we?re kind of letting them do that.?
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On Going Non-Physical
In the few quiet moments during the general horror and mess of this week, it's been sort of dawning on me that I could, as a comics writer, go pretty much all-digital for new releases at this point. (With a few outstanding exceptions.)
FREAKANGELS has been a successful project, doing what lots of people told me (and Avatar!) couldn't or shouldn't be done — paying creators to make a weekly webcomic and then making the money back on the (re)print collected editions. It must be doing okay...
Apex Magazine Plans An Issue Of Arabic And Muslim Writers
I was thinking the other day about the whole horrifying Elizabeth Moon situation.
She refers to sf novelist Elizabeth Moon, who outed herself on her own blog recently as a racist idiot who appears to get all her information about the world from Fox News.
I don't like to just watch bad things happen and make outraged noises and then go back to reading the intertubes like nothing happened. I always want to do something–something positive, something that stands on its own and says...
Apex Magazine Plans An Issue Of Arab/Muslim Writers
I was thinking the other day about the whole horrifying Elizabeth Moon situation.
She refers to sf novelist Elizabeth Moon, who outed herself on her own blog recently as a racist idiot who appears to get all her information about the world from Fox News.
I don't like to just watch bad things happen and make outraged noises and then go back to reading the intertubes like nothing happened. I always want to do something–something positive, something that stands on its own and says...
see, the guy on the left is all "well, hi mister big bra...
see, the guy on the left is all "well, hi mister big brain futurist" and Jamais Cascio is on the right giving it "excuse me a moment while I KILL YOU WITH MY MIND" and then the guy on the left just fucking died
Astra 3B undergoing testing in the anechoic chamber at ...
Astra 3B undergoing testing in the anechoic chamber at EADS Astrium, Toulouse – image by Simon Norfolk, found at CR.
Who I Am And Where I Am (September 2010)
My name's Warren Ellis. I write comics, graphic novels, journalism and anything else that people pay money for. 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) is 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 extrude a monthly column for WIRED UK magazine.
I write...
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