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Avatar Plug Of The Week: Warren Ellis' Captain Swing TPB
Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres' Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island, out in softcover and hardcover from Avatar Press tomorrow Here's the solicits… From the sparking-mad mind of Warren Ellis, the creator of TRANSMETROPOLITAN and PLANETARY, comes an electrical romance of a pirate utopia thwarted!  In the London[...]
Friday Runaround – Lenny And Warren, Live!
EllisWatch: Warren Ellis is being interviewed on stage tomorrow by Lenny Henry, as part of the UK premiere of Captured Ghosts, a documentary on his work and life I'm in it somewhere. MooreWatch: Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Steve Moore about his new novel. "Without giving away too much of the plot, it's a historical fantasy [...]
Talking To Ken Meyer Jr About Warren Ellis' Atmospherics
In January, Avatar will publish a new colour edition of Atmospherics, a graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Ken Meyer Jr about an alien abductee – or a serial killer In addition to the color softcover edition, there's a hardcover edition that's limited to only 1,000 copies – and each of these individual copies[...]
Tuesday Runaround – Warren Ellis, Illustrator
WinWatch: Isabel Greenberg is the winner of this year's Observer / Jonathan Cape / Comica graphic short story prize. ProperJournalismWatch: When the FT tries to write about digital comics. "One popular author and illustrator, Warren Ellis, has taken to posting a weekly comic on his website for free, then selling printed compilations of his[...]
Ennis And Ellis – Avatar Plug Of The Week
And from Warren Ellis, the last issue of  Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island #4 with Raulo Caceres. Here's a preview of Stitched; Here are the promo bits to entertain, dazzle and excite! Stitched #1 – Garth Ennis and Mike Wolfer unleash the biggest horror series of the year! From the mind of Garth[...]
Desolation Jones Appears In The New Batwoman #2
A long time ago, JH Williams III drew the DC/Wildstorm series Desolation Jones, written by Warren Ellis He left after the first arc and the second arc… faded away. But this week, in Batwoman #2, there's a rather familiar sight lurking in the background in one of William's trademarks double page spreads. Not only that but there[...]
Whitechapel Challenge – Redesigning Jenny Greenteeth
The "Remake/Remodel" challenge, founded by Warren Ellis, gives artists of all abilities the opportunity to show-off what they can do in the midst of the vast community at Whitechapel It's quite simply the best, and certainly the best-read, of its[...]
Whitechapel Challenge: Spurt Hammond
The "Remake/Remodel" challenge, founded by Warren Ellis, gives artists of all abilities the opportunity to show-off what they can do in the midst of the vast community at Whitechapel It's quite simply the best, and certainly the best-read, of its kind [...]
Whitechapel Challenge: Redesigning The Red Bee
The "Remake/Remodel" challenge, founded by Warren Ellis, gives artists of all abilities the opportunity to show-off what they can do in the midst of the vast community at Whitechapel It's quite simply the best, and certainly the best-read, of its kind Every week[...]
The Whitechapel Challenge – Redesigning The Crimson Clown
The "Remake/Remodel" challenge, founded by Warren Ellis, gives artists of all abilities the opportunity to show-off what they can do in the midst of the vast community at Whitechapel It's quite simply the best, and certainly the best-read, of its kind Every week participants are given the[...]
Warren Ellis' Supergod TPB and HC: Avatar Plug Of The Week
Pretty much Warren Ellis' final word on the superhero Until his next one The end of the world, narrated by a survivor (for now) and a look at how the superpower arms race for superpowers destroyed it all Out tomorrow in softcover and hardcover from Avatar Here's the bumf; Praying to be saved by a man[...]
Wednesday Comics Review: Secret Avengers 16
And it, a bunch of people on the Warren Ellis Forum went for a drink after a Warren Ellis signing And then kept going for drinks, most weeks. One of those people was Jamie McKelvie Others were Kieron Gillen and Antony Johnston. Today, Secret Avengers #16 by Warren Ellis and Jamie McKelvie is published And it's insanely[...]
Elektrograd Is A New Something From Warren Ellis And Ryan Bodenheim
It's called Elektrograd. It's written by Warren Ellis. It's drawn by Ryan Bodenheim. It will only get announced on completion. It is not yet completed. This image has nothing to do with it. I know nothing else Why, do you? It's called Elektrograd. It's written by Warren Ellis. It's drawn by Ryan Bodenheim. It will only get announced on completion. It is not yet completed. This[...]
Womanthology – Following The $100,000
Warren Ellis: Wondering if the Womanthology project, which quadrupled its Kickstarter goal, is paying its contributors now? Anyone know? Twitter, especially thanks to a contribution by one Warren Ellis, retweeted by Wil Wheaton, has been asking where the money raised on Kickstarter for the Womanthology comic book is going After all, they only tried to raise[...]
The Final Edition Of Freakangels
It's been three and-a-half years. Today Avatar published the final chapter of Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield's Freakangels, the long running webcomic set in a John Wyndhamian future where a world has been flooded due to some naughty telepaths, now trying to create a world worth living in. It was slice of life, it was a detective[...]
Warren Ellis And D'Israeli's SVK Sells Out In A Smash
It comes with a funny electric light. But SPK by Warren Ellis and D'Israeli, the comic book with an ultraviolet reveal published by Berg London has sold out of its 3500 print run in under 48 hours since going on sale, with a second print in the works You can sign up for one here. It's[...]
How To Make An Invisible Warren Ellis Comic
Bleeding Cool has previously reported on the Warren Ellis/D'Israeli comic project SVK before A comic in which the thought balloons of characters are hidden unless exposed by a flourescent pen light. I talked to Warren at MCM Expo about it, and he shared some of the challenges needed when visible lines cross invisible ones, and the[...]
Wolfskin: Hundredth Dream 6 – Avatar Plug Of The Week
Out today folks, WOLFSKIN: Hundredth Dream #6 by Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer and Gianluca Pagliarani Out today Roll on the solicitation and preview… PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This is it, the earth-shattering conclusion of one of the greatest fantasy epics ever! Alone against an entire city of warriors, Wolfskin has become an unstoppable, murderous machine who fears[...]
Paul Duffield's Orbital Exhibition
From his webcomic with Warren Ellis, Freakangels, his own self published comic Signal and more. Definitely worth a visit if you're around… At Orbital Comics, just off Leicester Square in London, Paul Duffield has an exhibition of original art From his webcomic with Warren Ellis, Freakangels, his own self published comic Signal and more. Definitely worth[...]
All Around 'Transmetropolitan: All Around The World' by Dirk Manning
 There were stories and sort-of flash fictions written by Warren Ellis, and accompanying illustrations by a range of talent  It was, in a sense, an orchestration with an experienced conductor. This art book, by comparison, is a backyard jam session  Everyone brought their own instruments, their own ideas of what they liked and wanted to do,[...]
Warren Ellis Has Two Novels Up His Sleeve
Okay, so, this is his big news. Warren Ellis has signed a two book deal with Mulholland Books The first is a thriller novel called Gun Machine for next year The second… isn't. And he writes about it all here, saying; In GUN MACHINE, I'm writing about a disruptive event: a small sealed Manhattan apartment filled with[...]
Warren Ellis And Jamie McKelvie On Secret Avengers #16
So we knew Warren Ellis and Jamie McKelvie were working on a secret Marvel project Turns out that was a terribly appropriate phrase. The Secret Avengers book is to be taken on by Ellis and McKelvie for issue 16 Or Stalin and the Kitten as I'm now going to refer to the pairing as I may[...]
Wednesday Comics Review: Sigil 1 and Captain Swing 3
Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island by Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres finally reaches a third issue And it's a very different kind of book, the art alone showing a dark, deeply textured world, with more in common with wood carvings than traditional American comic book art We have a nineteenth century[...]
Jamie McKelvie Drawing Warren Ellis Comic For Marvel?
Was it that long ago that Jamie McKelvie was a member of the Warren Ellis Forum, and later its successor The V, where he teamed up with fellow board member KIeron Gillen? I just remember long nights with the pair of them and a bunch of other reprobates at The Ship on Wardour Street as[...]
Ben Templesmith Draws New Issue Of Fell – Live!
Fell, the satirical police procedural comic by Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith, has been on hiatus for a few years now But it might be on the way back. Last night, in association with Isotope (Bleeding Cool nominee for Comic Shop Least Likely To Be Mistaken For Android's Dungeon) at the Noise Pop Culture Club in[...]
Is 2011 The Year Of Warren Ellis?
It is for publishers/film makers Sequart. This year they have three books focused on Warren Ellis. In May we get Keeping the World Strange: A Planetary Guide, edited by Cody Walker and studying the work by Ellis and artist John Cassaday with essays by Timothy Callahan (Grant Morrison:  The Early Years), Julian Darius (Improving the Foundations), A[...]