Warren Ellis's Blog, page 376

People who make print magazines! I would like to be told about your magazines now.Any kind of PRINT magazine is fair game, though obviously I’m most interested in people starting up their own, people publishing through POD, people trying something new, etc etc.

STEAMPUNK Magazine counts, because it has a print component as well as the free download.

Speed ye to Whitechapel, to this thread, to tell me about your magazines. Don’t use the comments section here. Ta.

EDIT: SEE WHERE IT SAYS “DON’T US

Some pages from ANNA MERCURY 2: ULTRASPACIAL DREADNOUGHT VANAHEIM #1 can be seen over here.

The order code for this issue, by the way, which you can drop on your local comics pusher, is: APR090683

The guts of this went out as a Bad Signal earlier.

So, yes, been busy. Have kept half an eye on things like Diamond changing the way in which they select comics for distribution, people screaming, books failing to get distributed due to above, people choking, bleeding out, etc etc. (Much-compressed version of a Very Big Thing. Googling "diamond comics benchmarks" will get you lots of reading on the subject.)

I am lucky. It is highly unlikely that any book I do in the next three to five years

A short, excellent video presenting Rushkoff’s new book. I understand the book is also to be serialised somehow on BoingBoing, but something lurking inside BB always forces a launch of Adobe Reader on my machine for some reason…

* For Pay Artists and Graphic Designers: Portfolio Advice? - way out of my field, can anyone help the guy out?

* FOUND: Excitement for the Comic Medium

* STEAMPUNK Magazine #5 is out.

* Avatar’s July 2009 Previews Pages - Online

* PHONOGRAM 2: The Singles Club

* The Self Portrait Imagethread (May09) continues to be mildly scary.

Probably more to come — may well be a busy day there.

It’s going to be all tumbles today, as I feel like shit, I’ve got tons to do, and I’m setting up loads of new threads at my online community Whitechapel today.

So: Webcomics Week.

You do a webcomic? Tell me about it over at Whitechapel. Not more than one or two images, please, or else the thread takes forever to load. Don’t forget the bloody link.

Relax. There are only 6200 members of Whitechapel, plus god knows how many drop-ins who aren’t registered members. Only around 2500 of those members per

At my internet hole tonight:

* REMAKE/REMODEL: The Octopus - this is where I nominate some ancient character that’s either in public domain or a pit of obscurity just next to public domain, and anyone who can make some form of art can have a go at reinterpreting it for the 21C. Sometimes Pia Guerra comes in and blows everyone away.

* Cosplaying Freakangels Characters - yes, I am scared.

* David Lapham coming to Avatar- - I don’t know, is he? People seem to think so.

* The Comics Covers Thread (May 0

BBC NEWS | UK | Stanford drug informer role claim
"…It was drug money originally paid in to Stanford International Bank by agents acting for a feared Mexican drug lord known as the 'Lord of the Heavens'." Research this guy. The Lord of The Heavens.
(tags:crime drugs )

The History Of Ska was a documentary series written and presented by Linton Kwesi Johnson for BBC Radio 1 around 1983, if memory serves. I’d really like to hear that thing again. There are a couple of bits of it on YouTube, of all places, but I’d love to listen to the entire series once more. I will gratefully accept any leads in the comments section.