Warren Ellis's Blog, page 227

Part Of The Process

So, it seems that my next project at Marvel is locked. I'm planning 12 issues, on the assumption that the Profit & Loss equations will give me at least that. (I don't sell singles like the boys in the clubhouse, but I do move a lot of trade paperbacks, and that gives me an edge.)

This is a series that I devised, rather than "created," like NEXTWAVE. "Created," to me, always implies making something from whole cloth, or as near to it as possible. My contracted role at Marvel is to work...

SPACE BASTARD: the bumper sticker

SPACE BASTARD: the bumper sticker

Eliza Gauger's THE STAINS Series Up For Auction

Six stains and a shard: art by Eliza Gauger on found materials in Berlin, produced live on sweatshop tv. This is the auction link, where you can get a good look at all the pieces.

CASANOVA #2 Preview

The second issue of the CASANOVA remodel/reboot is out from Wednesday from comics retailers who count, and there's a full preview up at Comics Alliance. Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba do the pure comics.

(Siege)

(Siege)

Brian Wood in upstate NY:

Brian Wood in upstate NY:

Jason Masters

I haven't been paying much attention to the RED prequel comics, beyond the fact that Cully and the Hoebers are doing one each, and haven't really been kept in the loop on them. So it was a nice surprise when artist Jason Masters turned up on my message board yesterday to show the piece of art that got him the gig illustrating one of them.

Broken But Moving

Work week from hell, for both me and Ariana (who makes this site work). So of course this is the moment at which things start falling off. The thing that takes my del.icio.us links and wraps them into a twice-daily post here is broken. The LiveJournal crossposter is broken. And in fact when I publish this post, written in the Wordpress web dashboard, it's going to tell me some crap about a missing password (but post it anyway). I think the site knows that Ariana and I have been talking a...

Hiroyuki Imaishi's NEXTWAVE?

Someone pointed me at this on twitter, with the message

From /co/ @WarrenEllis + Stuart Immonen's Nextwave, by Hiroyuki Imaishi

I don't read /co/, so I have no idea of the provenance of the attached image.

(original size)

whitechapel 2aug10

On my message board and internet hovel today:

* Pro Comics Creators: What Are You Working On?

* Pay-what-you-like clothing from Lastwear

* The Self-Portrait Imagethread (Aug 10)

* GenCon Indy 2010 Meetup: August 4-8

* The feeding of the 200: Peter Yates' Music

* Tom Spurgeon's 6 Comics News Stories Due To Break Before The End Of The Year

* Best Albums of 2010 (So Far)