Warren Ellis's Blog, page 373

So… any creators here have a book coming out this week?

If you do: want to mention it? Talk about it? Point at a website, a blog entry, a bit of art, whatever… let these many thousands of people with disposable income know about it?

Please speak your brains at this thread at Whitechapel. Some people have already started.

And for those of you who visit a comics shop weekly, it’s a nice way to get a preview of what’s on offer this week.

Juan Santapan’s collection of short stories in comics form, THE SECRET KNOTS, is gently, sublimely mental. Quite, quite mad. Wonderful. Look:

Chris Eliopoulos, as well as being one of the best letterers in comics, does a daily webcomic called MISERY LOVES SHERMAN. The strips are too wide to present here properly, but, in Chris’ words, "it’s about two aliens and a miniature Grim Reaper." It’s very funny.

Raz Solo’s AIMESKI, EVIL GIRL GENIUS is just warped. You will probably like it.

1. The Tree That Owns Itself, 2. DSC00098, 3. the Toll House at Gunthorpe, 4. Window, 5. 051609, 6. Looking back

Am speaking at the Architectural Association on May 29, as part of the Thrilling Wonder Stories: Speculative Futures For An Alternate Present symposium. (Here’s an alternative link if that one dies, thanks to Matt Jones.)

A symposium co-ordinated by Liam Young (AA INTER 7 / Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today) and Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG)

’Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.’ J G Ballard

We have always

Art by Raulo Caseres. Forthcoming via Avatar Press.

"Options."

1. Untitled, 2. Roundhouse, 3. who says nerds don’t get tans, 4. Owen Shares His Opinion, 5. Olive, 6. Sketch-a-Day

So, on Whitechapel last week, I declared Webcomics Week and had webcomics creators tell me about their work. This week, I’m pulling out my favourites from that thread and noting them here. Or, at least, the ones so odd I thought you should see them.

I don’t even know what to tell you about SIX OR SEVEN POPES.

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And if you like superhero comics, and you’re old enough that swearing won’t make you faint, you might like PLAN B.

I’m alive, let alone awake, so bear with me today.

* REMAKE/REMODEL: Spider Queen - this week’s game for artists.

* The Weekly Listening Thread (18may09)

* NASA: What The Fuck Is Wrong With It?

* Comics Shipping This Week (20may09)

* Whitechapel T-Shirts