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Chad Michael Ward Print Sale

Chad Michael Ward's doing an emergency print sale to cover some sudden medical costs, selling his stuff cheaper than it's ever been. Right now, he's banging them out for $15 per print and $5 shipping. Domestic US-only, right now, but I'm betting that if you emailed him (his email's at the link too, and you have to email him to order the prints anyway) you could probably work something out.

EXCALIBUR/Untitled Arthurian Project

I was actually cleared to talk about this at San Diego, but all the press I did there was Japanese-oriented for the Marvel Anime deal… so I'm going to mention it here, to say I did, and to maybe make up for that by giving the comics news sites something to post post-SDCC.

I'm writing a film treatment for Hollywood Gang, who co-produced Frank Miller's 300. Hollywood Gang have previously optioned my graphic novel (with Chris Sprouse) OCEAN.

On my desk, the treatment is called Untitled Arthurian Pro

Out This Week: IGNITION CITY #4

From Wednesday in North America, from Thursday in the UK and elsewhere. And here's a preview at Issuu.

Marvel Anime: IRON MAN

This is the second of the two teaser pieces shown at San Diego on Friday. This is the test animation for the IRON MAN anime series I'm writing, produced for the south east Asian market. Note test animation: it's intended to show off the style of the piece only. Nothing in here reflects the actual content, just the design and the aesthetic and the animation. The only character in this piece that is in the actual series is Iron Man himself, okay?

Marvel Anime: WOLVERINE

This is the first of the two teaser pieces shown at San Diego on Friday. This is the test animation for the WOLVERINE anime series I'm writing, produced for the south east Asian market. Note test animation: it's intended to show off the style of the piece only. Nothing in here reflects the actual content, just the design and the aesthetic and the animation. The story itself will be loosely based on the WOLVERINE miniseries by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller from the early 1980s. This anima

Station Ident: Back On The Air

Home after an insanely long end to a very short trip. Back here tomorrow with many newses and things. This is Warren Ellis dot com.

(Mal Jones.)

DO ANYTHING: 008

I guess this went up several hours ago. I'm in LA and just woke up. Attend:

Reissue of Alan Moore's "Voice Of The Fire" ambient/spoken-word trilogy of albums from 1982-5. Moore continues to refuse all royalties from his production work on U2's "The Joshua Tree," citing intellectual property theft and contractual irregularities. The launch party is held in a David Gibbons building, the controversial Millennium Space Fort in London.

FAQ: RED

Yes. I wrote a short graphic novel — really more of a novelette or short story — called RED. It was illustrated brilliantly by Cully Hamner. It was a creator-owned work. Summit Entertainment acquired the film rights last year.

And, yes, according to Variety, Morgan Freeman is now in talks to co-star in the putative film adaptation alongside Bruce Willis.

And now you know about as much as I do. Heh.

Wasn't expecting this to pop up the day before I leave for San Diego. Check the previous post f

FAQs For The San Diego Comic Con

Okay. Things are going to be a bit patchy here for the next seven days, due to work and travel. So no more Station Idents, I'm just going to post when I can.

FAQs for San Diego, then:

* PLANETARY #27 comes out in October, I'm told.

* FELL #10 is underway right now on this end, so don't bug Ben. We're on it. It'll be a while before it's ready.

* DESOLATION JONES remains in temporary limbo for various reasons. Wildstorm and I are working on it, is all you need to know.

* NEWUNIVERSAL remains o

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