Warren Ellis's Blog, page 371

Comics creators: got a book on release this week? Go to Whitechapel and tell us about it.

(DON’T post it in comments here. Someone does, every week. And I delete it. Ha ha.)

Everyone else: also at that link, a list of what’s in comics stores from this Thursday.

Okay, so, I’m in London on Friday speaking at the AA as part of their symposium THRILLING WONDER STORIES, an all-day event around the theme of science fiction and cities. Co-organiser Geoff Manaugh has all the details at this link here. Notables: it’s free entry, and if you keep checking back at that link, Geoff will eventually update it with details of the planned live stream.

I don’t know what time I’m on.

It’s Wednesday, I’m backed up with work, and I still have no idea what I’m going to talk

"Organic knuckledusters!"

(I love that Modblog now use the category tag of Totally getting snagged by Warren Ellis.)

1. Doctor Jesus (Guatemala), 2. From the underbelly of the dark wet world, 3. souvenirs for that special someone, 4. The bastard child of industry, 5. The Great Wall in the rain, 6. Henry in Heaven

Just barely starting the week at my internet hovel:

* Post-London MCM Comics Expo Thing - portmortem of this past weekend’s event.

* REMAKE/REMODEL: The Gadget Man - this week’s art challenge. A terrific piece already in from Annie Wu, among others…

* The Self Portrait Imagethread (May09) - the male nudity had to be stopped before we started to feel the clammy horror of one of the participants draping his testicles on our foreheads. Sorry, Suraya.

* Comics Shipping This Week (28may09) — the list, wi

It’s Tuesday. You’re all back at work. And you want something to read, don’t you? DON’T YOU? Course you bloody do.

I read a chunk of Jake Harold’s JUSTINE TYME at MCM in print form, but it’s all on the web too:

One day you’re with your friends at school, going about your normal life, then the next you wake up in a strange forest being chased by dinosaurs. Oh, and you have a robot arm for some reason. Isn’t that the lifestyle of every 15 year old girl? No? Justine didn‘t think so either…

Jon S

The “I Can Read Movies” Series - a set on Flickr
"a graphic designer who, for fun, designed vintage looking bookcovers for recent movies, as though it were cover art for a movie tie-in book… "
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Crossposted from Bad Signal:

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So the MCM Expo signing in Comics Village there ran a total of two and a half hours or so. I started before 1pm — after a comically nightmarish journey from Southend that involved a 40-quid cab ride in order to get there at all — and finished up a hair before 4pm, with a break in the middle because I hadn’t yet had time to eat that day.

Was NOT expecting that many people. Not far off the sort of crowd I draw in the States, in fact.

I note that already ther

I can’t get there, as I’m off to Dundee that day, but the indiecomics event LUC 176 should be on the calendar for anyone in reach of London. Obviously, many of you should go along just to pelt the ubiquitous Gillen & McFamous McKelvie with stale food (which they will later pick up and eat anyway), but likely lads such as Ellerby, Scrivens and Harold are also on hand.  And they’d probably not say no to a bit of stale food either.

Okay, recap:

I’m at the London MCM Expo tomorrow, in the Comics Village area from about 1pm. I’m aiming for noon, but, you know, I work late and get up late, so let’s assume I’ll shamble in around one.

I will sign stuff, but two warnings:

1) If you turn up with a cart full of everything I’ve done (and this has happened before) waiting to be signed, I will laugh at you and then have you beaten up by security. Seriously. At one show, a guy conscripted his brother to pull the other cart. Pick fiv