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FILAMENT Magazine And The Erection Dilemma

The beautifully-produced London-based magazine FILAMENT has a problem.

Explicit images of women are available at any newsagent, but Filament, the world's only magazine featuring male pictorials designed for the female gaze, is finding itself between a rock and a hard place when it comes to printing explicit images of men.

Filament only prints explicit images when these are of high photographic and erotic quality, and clearly designed for women - we won't ever be putting hard cocks on every page. T

Station Ident: This Is Tomorrow

Matt Jones, Russell Davies and I spent yesterday constructing schemes. Or, as we've taken to calling it, "avant-tharging." Hence, nothing happened here yesterday. But this is tomorrow.

Good morning.

DO ANYTHING 010

At bleedingcool.com:

Comics creators who are also performers:

• Afua Richardson, singer
• Paul Pope, DJ
• Alan Moore, vocalist
• Robert Crumb, guitarist
• Antony Johnston, musician
• Kieron Gillen, "Bez"

On Whitechapel Tonight (3aug09)

On my internet spiderhole tonight:

* Online SF Magazines: Your Choices - what online fiction-centric sf magazines do you recommend right now?

* REMAKE/REMODEL: Captain Future - the latest reinvention challenge for artists, open to all.

* The three biggest reasons music magazines are dying.

* My PATSY WALKER Dream - an ancient short essay I wrote and recently rediscovered while rummaging around on old websites.

* The Rozz-Tox Manifesto - features a cool photo of Philip K Dick.

Meredith Yayanos & Amanda Palmer

You all know Mer from COILHOUSE, right? This was, I guess, last week at San Diego? While I was on a plane being kicked around the mid-west by storms, probably. Amanda Palmer is as good as ever, and I've always liked this song — but I have to say, Mer really does tear it the fuck up on this one. Please enjoy Amanda Palmer and Meredith Yayanos performing "Missed Me" in San Diego on July 24, for the benefit of the CBLDF:

Headline Of The Day

Call for debate on killer robots

Zola Jesus

Finally got around to listening to Zola Jesus' debut album THE SPOILS last night. I am reminded, delightfully, of mid-period Danielle Dax. More later, as I'm a bit pushed right now, but this stuff is really worth a listen. This is her myspace page. And this is a short promotional piece shot by Natasha Araya-Schraner:

Where I Am And How To Find Me (August 2009)

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'll check once or twice a week: warrenellis [-at-:] gmail com. This isn't, I stress, my main email account, and it's not for asking me when some comic's coming out. Always interested in new music, new art, new connections, new madness etc.

If you need to contact me about writing for print or web, please contact my agent Lydia Wills using th

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On Whitechapel Today (3aug09)

At my internet house of mirrors today:

* Webcomics Summer Clearing House - the irregular moment where I ask webcomickers to tell me about their webcomics, so I can send the 7000 people on Whitechapel to read them. Tell me. Tell your friends to tell me. In the above-linked thread, not here.

* COMICS DESIGN: Paul Pope, Design Containers, 1999 - something interesting Paul wrote ten years ago

* Comics Shipping This Week (Aug 5)

* The Doomwatch Thread - in which people identify the sources of Our C