Warren Ellis's Blog, page 91
October 24, 2011
Comics Tor
Dear Tor.com, you seem to have forgotten that you do comics for about a year, and have walked away from the powerful web-to-print model you were presumably exploring with Dan Goldman's RED LIGHT PROPERTIES. Given that you are clearly funded for comics work, since I can't imagine the likes of Mike Mignola and Craig Thompson work for free, and have begun commissioning anew… can I expect to see another, more sustained stab at a disruptive presence in the comics medium by a noted sf prose publisher (publisher, in fact, of my daughter's current favourite author, Cherie Priest)? Or are you just farting about?
Answers on a postcard to the usual address.
October 22, 2011
Bookmarks for 2011-10-21
"Although the tendency to fall for trite, romanticist pastiche is always only a step away in Germany, I've felt that hauntology as an artistic concept has never really gained a foothold in the local experimental underground (as opposed to fine art, a point convincingly made by Adam Harper in reference to Neo Rauch). Considering this, I was both very surprised and quite intrigued to come across the latest offering by Frankfurt-based cassette imprint SicSic Tapes, a C-40 split between Johannes Schebler aka Baldruin and Christian Schoppik, who records under the moniker Brannten Schnüre."
(tags:music hauntology )
October 21, 2011
Bookmarks for 2011-10-21
A team of international researchers has discovered a new Ebola-like virus – Lloviu virus — in bats from northern Spain. Lloviu virus is the first known filovirus native to Europe, they report in a study published in the journal PLOS Pathogens on Octobr 20th.
(tags:med )
Latest Cassini images of Enceladus on view
Raw, unprocessed images from the successful Oct. 19 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft provide new views of the moon and the icy jets that burst from its southern polar region.
(tags:space )
James Bond Collection – Faceout Books
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Lecture 11.10.18: Wolf Prix – digital futures
"He has fun with architecture—get put on hold calling his Vienna office and "Gimme Shelter" is the muzak—"
(tags:architecture )
October 20, 2011
"4 Hours, " Clock DVA
I'm always losing this, so here it goes.
October 19, 2011
The First Comic I Ever Loved
I remember my dad bringing it home for me when he returned from work one night. I know I also read TV21. But it's COUNTDOWN that sticks in my mind for some reason. It was a science fiction anthology comic wherein all the stories were licensed from TV shows of the period, with one main exception. That exception being the series within COUNTDOWN that was also titled COUNTDOWN, which licensed design work from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY:
The art on that strip, as you will have noted, is by the great John M Burns, one of the real unsung heroes of British comics. As is this panel to the left. For those of you who study comics, let me reiterate: this is commercial British comics art, mainstream sold-on-the-newsstand comics art, from 1971.
Below is another bit from COUNTDOWN-the-series, a recap block from a later episode. This is the bottom half of a single page, and I cropped it so you can also see the page furniture. The pagination on COUNTDOWN counted backwards, from 22 to 1. So 6 was towards the back of the book.
A cheerful moment from the DOCTOR WHO strip that ran in COUNTDOWN (these were the Jon Pertwee years). It was a mild curiosity of the strip that it always called him "Dr Who," not "The Doctor," something that I think only other happened in the Peter Cushing film versions.
A piece of a UFO episode, based on the Gerry Anderson series. They did like their jagged layouts – I'm not sure if that's a Frank Bellamy influence or not. There's certainly still some of the British newspaper strip style in it.
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Ah, but the other thing they did in COUNTDOWN…
…was articles. I'm sure I wasn't able to understand much of what was going on. But somehow I think some of it sunk in…
October 18, 2011
Bookmarks for 2011-10-18
(tags:music bandcamp ambient )
Type | A record label – "Ritual Mix" Mike Weis
"A careful selection of ritual music from around the world by percussionist Mike Weis"
(tags:podcast music )
BERG present Tomorrow's World
I'm afraid this event sold out within a few moments of BERG posting it on the twitters, but, just for the record, this is happening in London:
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"The Near-Future of Pop" is a title that Jones came up with and basically forced upon me. God only knows what I'm going to do with that. After the event, I will probably post whatever I came up with here.
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