Molly Crabapple and Warren Ellis collaborated on "Ariadne and the Science," five short-short stories with accompanying illustrations. Each is available in a limited edition of 25 giclee prints, signed by Crabapple, for $100 each through Etsy. Here's number II (and here's a link to number I). — Read the rest

Warren Ellis has posted a transcript of "How To See The Future," they keynote he gave at the Improving Reality conference in Brighton, England this week. Ellis works his way through McLuhan's statement that "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. — Read the rest

Matt sez, "Hey, it's Matt at the Disinformation Company, and I thought that you'd enjoy the lengthy interview I did with Warren Ellis for the DisinfoCast. We talk about aliens, space travel, the singularity and more. We even squeeze in a second or two for talk about comic books." — Read the rest

Warren Ellis has advice for writers who are trying to figure out how to write comics scripts. I've written a few of these, and I've been looking for a guide like this. I especially like his advice on understanding how to give direction to artists:

When you're starting out, you may well find yourself writing "blind": not knowing who the artist will be.

SVK, the fab Warren Ellis/D'Israeli comic published by London's BERG with hidden UV ink action, sold out in hours. The second printing just came back from the printers and it's back on sale.

Warren Ellis, Matt "D'Israeli" Brooker and the London design firm BERG have all teamed up to release a marvellous and scary comic called SVK. SVK is an exploration of some of the terrifying possibilities of ubiquitous augmented reality in comic form, the story of a disgraced spy who is tasked with recovering a top-secret package lost by a military contractor. — Read the rest

Warren Ellis livetweeted the World Cup US-England game:

* Ah. The England team appear to have gotten drunk during half-time.

* Rooney confused by round thing flying through air. It am not bird. Maybe still good to eat? Rooney try to kill with head.

Wednesday's Dork Tower comic contemplated the possibility of a Warren Ellis alarm clock. I'd buy one, or at least download one for my Android phone!

DORK TOWER, Wednesday, February 17, 2010

(via Forbidden Planet)

Warren Ellis has put an open call out to Whitechapel readers who have Etsy stores for their crafts to pimp their offerings for early Xmas shopping. So far, we've got wool candy, steampunk jewellery, surreal paintings, paintings of demon cats, handmade jewellery, custom toys, fashion, goggles, felted dissected animals, hand-dyed wool, chainmail, etc etc. — Read the rest

In this month's Wired UK, Warren Ellis waxes apocalyptopoetic about tiny transportation systems as a thing of future beauty:

Designing a transport hub for the loading and traffic flow of pharma capsules built to deliver drugs directly into the heart of cancer tumours, using carbon fullerenes and working on the nanoscale, where communication between building and vehicle will have to be conducted via coded protein transfer because you’re below the limit at which radio waves can be transmitted or received.

Warren Ellis has written a new series of GI Joe cartoons, reimagining the infra-dumb 80s toy-sales vehicle as a serious war comic. Adult Swim has the original episodes, but they're blocked outside of the US, so if you're in the UK like me, you can watch 'em on YouTube. — Read the rest

Warren Ellis's fantastic net-perv novel Crooked Little Vein's just come out in paperback — here's the review I posted of the hardcover last year:

Warren Ellis's first novel, "Crooked Little Vein" is about what you'd expect from the Internet's most gonzo celebrant of the kinky, deviant, gross, hard-boiled and manic.

Freak Angels: the latest from Warren Ellis, with Paul Duffield, version 0001 is now online and it's lovely.

From Warren Ellis' blog:

"The partner of designer and COILHOUSE co-creator Mildred Von has been arrested in Dubai for carrying melatonin. This, apparently, gave them the excuse to declare without testing that a few fragments of dirt in the bottom of his bag were hashish.

Warren Ellis's profane and angry take on the Three Laws of Robotics is good reading — especially if you envision the future as an organic process where "laws" are emergent phenomena arising from lots of individual, uncoordinated actors (e.g., the Internet) instead of a centrally planned affair contrived by Wise Men in white robes (the Foundation). — Read the rest

Warren Ellis's first novel, "Crooked Little Vein" is about what you'd expect from the Internet's most gonzo celebrant of the kinky, deviant, gross, hard-boiled and manic. Like Hunter S Thompson with an Internet connection, Ellis's hard-boiled detective story veers into hilarious gross-out turf from the first page, when a heroin-addicted presidential chief of staff charges the narrator of the book to retrieve a holy relic. — Read the rest

Warren Ellis has just posted chapter one of his forthcoming novel Crooked Little Vein, a gonzo hard-boiled detective story that takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the ickiest subcultures on the Internet. I loved this book — I'll be publishing a review shortly — and I'm pleased to note that we'll be having Warren on the Boing Boing Boing podcast in August to talk about it. — Read the rest

Just finished Fell: Feral City, the first collected volume of Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith's new hard-boiled, surreal, ultra-violent comic. I've loved Ellis's writing since Transmetropolitan (the comic that got me reading comics again), but I've only just started to notice Templesmith's unique brand of abstract, kinetic, moody painting (see, for example, Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse and 30 Days of Night). — Read the rest

BB reader Joe says,

The Eagle Awards, the major comics awards for the UK, were given out on Saturday evening after the Bristol International Comic Expo and the
Newswarama folk had them up first (they won best comics related site). I couldn't find mention of them anywhere on Sunday, save one that came up on a Technorati search which had Warren Ellis saying he had a garbled message from Brian K Vaughan to say he had won a pile of awards at the Eagles.

Here's a snip from this week's installment, "Shipwrecked and Abandoned":

At a concurrency of 40,000 people, Second Life's gears begin to grind a bit. My inworld sojourn last night was truncated by the teleport system failing, which, admittedly, kind of prevents people from circulating around the grid.