Designed for Jamais Cascio by Chip Zdarsky.

Molly’s cover for a forthcoming issue of WEIRD TALES.

Brings the science.

Zoetica Ebb is offering limited runs of stickers at this link (you’ll need to scroll down a bit, past the bare arses and all):

This week on my message board, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and writer/artist/octopoid-multitasker Emma Vieceli will be answering questions and talking about their work in five-day residencies. Em writes, draws, teaches, publishes and organises, and Kel’s probably the only person I know who’s written more than eleven thousand pages of dialogue and still had a more interesting life than most of us.

Come and meet them.

* The Kelly Sue DeConnick Residency

* The Emma Vieceli Residency

Me likey:

This is warren ellis dot com. Today sees the editors of COILHOUSE begin a weeklong residency at my message board, which gives me an excuse to reproduce this exquisite illustration of the three of them by Kurt Komoda. Good morning, sinners. No, this isn’t your radio set on the blink again.

Henry, son of writer/scholar Jess Nevins, is not impressed by your pagan ways:

(Ariana comments: "I knew offering toddler t-shirts was a good idea.")

Coming & Crying: real stories about sex from the other side of the bed. A Kickstarter-powered book project by Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O’Connell:

Meaghan and Melissa (or, "we") met because of the internet and writing, and writing about sex (and blogging about writing about sex). Almost since then, we’ve been talking about how we need to do a book like this: a collection of stories (and photographs) from the messy, awkward, hilarious, painful, and ultimately true side of sex.

As part of this project, all of the money we raise together will go towards producing the book and to paying its contributors. The more we bring in, the more we can put out — a prettier book, bigger take-home for our writers and photographers, and fancier packages for all those who pledge.

We want to produce this book because we want to read it; it’s something we’ve been looking for for a long time and haven’t found yet. Compelling writing that doesn’t skip over the interesting parts, writing that is willing to go there, to be brave and to dwell in it, the way few published authors have….

Via Sara Gries:

My old friend Dr Joshua Ellis of Las Vegas, trading as Red State Soundsystem, has released his first album under that name, GHOSTS IN A BURNING CITY. And you can stream the whole thing for free at this link here. That page also features a (Buy) link that’ll let you purchase the album as a download at Amazon or iTunes. The album includes a new version of "Sleeping In Flame," which was very popular when I ran it in a podcast years ago.

FREAKANGELS illustrator Paul Duffield and KING CITY creator Brandon Graham have kindly agreed to do weeklong residencies at my message board Whitechapel starting today, where they will answer questions, show you stuff, and basically talk about anything they feel like talking about.

The Paul Duffield Residency.

The Brandon Graham Residency.

Aha. Newspaper-printing service, the Newspaper Club of London, has produced their price list.

The way it’s going to work is that you upload a PDF or use their online authoring tool, pay the whack, and within several days someone’s going to drop a pallet of your newspapers wherever you told them to.

A colour 12pp newspaper? Five hundred copies for five hundred quid to you squire.

Five thousand colour 12pp newspapers? A grand and a half.

I have a feeling that several friends and acquaintances of mine will be availing themselves of this.

Recent work:

Whitechapel is, if you like, the "other half" of my general internet activity. It’s a message board, and it lets me do certain things that I can’t really do here. Like this.

In January, I’m inviting a few friends in to Whitechapel to run their own conversation threads for a week, where they can do Q&A, show off work, talk about what they’re interested in and generally sit down for a public chat. I’m starting off, this week, with comics writer Brian Wood and photographer/writer Katie West.

The Brian Wood residency thread is at this link.

The Katie West residency thread is at this link.

Feel free to send these links around.

Finnish beat-industrial mutants Älymystö have released their new EP, entitled 19:38:00 — and you can stream the whole thing for free on last.fm.

I’ve actually come to look forward to this. Every year, games journo/music journo/comics writer Kieron Gillen does his "top 40" tracks from the previous. Every year, it’s just a completely bloody fascinating bit of writing. It’s also always completely wrong, and I usually spend a few weeks roundly insulting him and the terrible mental debilitation he rode in on. This year, I am simply going to recommend it to your attention, as something fine and interesting to read on a cold Saturday night.

Kieron Gillen’s Tracks Of The Year 2009.

And here’s a bit I actually agree with (though he picked the wrong track. See?):

…Ida Maria is always the sound of a drunk twenty-something girl falling down the stairs and mumbling to herself and banging her head against the wall, at which point she’s surprised to discover the noise is actually spangly and shiny. A sing-along hands-in-the-air Nervous Breakdown. The best kind!

A new project from BERG:

We’ve been working with our friends at Bonnier R&D exploring the future of digital magazines. Bonnier publish Popular Science and many other titles.

Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy and enjoyable to read. Can we marry what’s best about magazines with the always connected, portable tablet e-readers sure to arrive in 2010?

This video prototype shows the take of the Mag+ project…

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

Poster designs.

Wouldn’t you love to see her do comics? I know I would.

A book by Katelan Foisy:

Fifteen women.
Three portraits each.

They Be We provides an intimate look at the lives of fifteen different women. From mothers, to Voodoo doctors, to those in the limelight, each woman has a story to tell.

Go to this link here for a set of discount codes to use.

Emma Vieceli’s been up to something:

I…(was) asked to provide some images that would work in a sketchbook style artbook… The clever bit is that you get to browse the full range of images available and then pick and choose a customised art book!

Some of the images I chose are illustrations you’ll have seen prints of before, some are reproduced with special permission from publishers and would certainly not be available any other way (including in progress shots of Much Ado and my Phonogram back-up story) and some are brand new, never before seen! (if you go for a customisable option, there may also be one of my – erm – naughtier pictures in there, hahaha).

Emma’s Signature page is here.

A snapshot of what friends and acquaintances have been doing and looking at, via their Flickr accounts:

1. League of Extraordinary Steampunks, 2. Crane, 3. All Good Mermaids Have Jazz Hands, 4. super suit.jpg, 5. About to fly home., 6. Private pod

"An advent calendar of unpleasant Santa antics, with the occasional uplifting/confusing Santa action shot.

"Y’know, for kids."

A snapshot of what friends and acquaintances have been doing and looking at, via their Flickr accounts:

1. The Stilton Terrahawks, 2. buttons’ packaging, 3. Pill Lights, 4. , 5. P1010487, 6. The Seine at 4am

I have here the sizzle reel for your new favourite TV show. It’s OCEAN’S ELEVEN. The Sixties original. In space. With Sean fucking Pertwee. Devised by old crony Mike Sizemore, directed by Steve Barron. It’s called SLINGERS.

This is the link to the sizzle reel. Go and watch it now.

(The bit with the gun cracks me up.)

And this is the SLINGERS category on Mike’s blog. All kinds of interesting stuff there.

1. I will never get over you, 2. tunnel, 3. Tiger Style, 4. untitled, 5. I would imagine so, yes, 6. Fishhead Revisited

I have a couple of friends in this one, if you’re in the LA area:

Laurenn’s new art project, a massive thing:

In February, I’ll be presenting a gallery show that I’m calling Speaking to Las Vegas in the Language of Las Vegas. This is going to be an art installation that combines sculptural elements, performance, audio, video, photo documentation, and illustrated portraits of Las Vegas sex workers. The purpose of this show is to investigate the connections between the Las Vegas economy & the legal & illegal sex work that happens there….

Laurenn McCubbin

Print, fill out and deliver to your local comics shop: