Author and blogger Warren Ellis shot this phonecam snap with a Nokia 3650, then opined aloud:
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"What I just clicked into is that futurephones are very good for the micro, and that weird impressionistic smudging and the odd focal length creates its own suite of weird effects.
Author and blogger Warren Ellis has been posting some delectable, bite-sized morsels of prose on diepunyhumans recently. Snip:
— Read the restShe used to have eyes I could lose myself in, and then she had them replaced with laser pointers. Little red dots jumping up and down on the bedroom wall as I took her from behind.
Warren Ellis has posted an excerpt from his forthcoming novel:
— Read the restWhat follows is a conversation between private investigator Michael McGill and the Chief Of Staff to the office of the President of the United States, essentially explicating the initial plot engine of the book.
Warren "Transmetropolitan" Ellis has sold his first novel. Kick ass!
— Read the restThis comic tour of the dark underbelly of American culture features a down-and-out private detective who is hired by heroin-addled G-men to find the lost (secret) Constitution to the United States.
Inspired by Unwirer, the story that Charlie Stross and I co-wrote in public, on a blog, Warren Ellis has decided to write a novel on a blog he's created for the purpose (parts 1,
2,
3 and
and 4 are already online). — Read the rest
Warren Ellis is squarely on the record as being an aesthetic enemy of the comic-book heroes he calls "Underwear Perverts" — i.e., Batman, Superman, etc. But when I dropped by my comics store this afternoon, the proprietor had a new book for me, "Planetary/Batman," a perfect-bound, $5.95 Batman comic by Warren Ellis. — Read the rest
Slashdot has posted a group interview with Warren "Transmetropolitan" Ellis, my all-time-fave funnybook writer.
— Read the restI couldn't care less what other creators "should" consider, and if you ever say something like that within my physical reach I will slap the life clean out of your little body.
Warren Ellis takes a break from scripting his new comic to rant about the alternate history posisbilities of Nicola Tesla.
— Read the restYou know Tesla patented something very like a solar panel in 1901? Do you even care?
I do, because it's going to make my spaceships fly.
Superidol is a complete sequential-art story by Warren "Transmetropolitan" Ellis and Colleen Doran, free on the Web. It's got elements of Sterling's Zeigeist, and Varley's Barbie Murders, and Peter Watt's Behemoth — my mind is all a-swirl.
(via Die Puny Humans)
Well, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom has only been out for a month, but it's already time to get cracking on Eastern Standard Tribe, my next novel, which Tor's publishing next November. There's been an excerpt online for a year now, and my editor's been sending me drop-dead gorgeous comps of the cover-art. — Read the rest
Mindjack has an interview with Warren "Transmetropolitan" Ellis in the new ish:
— Read the restThere are moments of pure, heart stopping beauty in the most tragic and broken environments. And the loveliest community on earth will not be able to eliminate the dog turd.
Die Puny Humans is Warren "Transmetropolitan" Ellis's new blog. It's every bit as brilliant as you'd expect, coming from one of the most talented writers working today.
(Thanks, Remi!)
Warren "Transmetropolitan" Ellis is doing a new online serial comic, "Superidol."
(via Technoccult)
Old Dog is a new spy-fi comic book series from writer / artist Declan Shalvey that offers some really fun twists on some classic genre tropes. Here's the setup:
— Read the restJack Lynch was a once-promising C.I.A. operative. On the eve of retirement, looking back at a failed career he is tasked with one final mission…that goes horribly wrong.
This is a Cartoonist Kayfabe I've been waiting for, where Ed and Jim talk about their all-time fave cyberpunk-themed comics.
In it, they look at Akira (natch), The Long Tomorrow (they better!), Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed (of course), Shatter (have to admit I've never read it), and finally, Frank Miller's Hard Boiled. — Read the rest
It was a real treat last weekend after the long COVID pause to get to go in person to Short Run, Seattle's Comix and Arts Festival. This show features many independent, small press, and self-published comic creators and artists. Lots to discover! — Read the rest
I'm not a regular listener to the Ezra Klein Show, but I tune in for the occasional interesting guest — so I assumed that the Ted Chiang episode was not one to miss, and I was right.
Chiang is the author of the speculative short fiction like the collection Stories of Your Life and Others, and is critically acclaimed by writers and reviewers alike for the way he combines hard sci-fi and heartfelt explorations of humans living in society. — Read the rest
Nick Cave (of The Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, Grinderman, The Dirty Three, and more) communes with his fans via The Red Hand Files. They ask him how he's doing, what he's writing, his favorite books, and general life advice as if he were some wonderful and terrifying fortune teller living on the outskirts of an already mysterious and alluring town. — Read the rest
Having survived a serious bout of COVID-19, Marianne Faithfull is back with a new record to be released on April 30th. Her 21st studio album, She Walks in Beauty finds Faithfull reading the works of Romantic poets to music and sound textures provided by Bad Seeds' Warren Ellis and the likes of Brian Eno and Nick Cave. — Read the rest
Despite the protestations of the White House Press Secretary and Breitbart — which are not, in fact, the same entity — the 45th President of the United State of America did indeed suggest that people should pump themselves full of toxic disinfectant chemicals and "UV light" to fight off coronavirus. — Read the rest
