Warren Ellis

Links for 2010-07-30

Warren Ellis — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:00:01 +0000

The Associated Press: AP IMPACT: Before the CIA, there was the Pond
"Created during World War II as a purely U.S. operation free of the perceived taint of European allies, the Pond existed for 13 years and was shrouded in secrecy for more than 50 years. It used sources that ranged from Nazi officials to Stalinists and, at one point, a French serial killer"
(tags:pol war spy )

Links for 2010-07-30

Warren Ellis — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:00:01 +0000

The Associated Press: AP IMPACT: Before the CIA, there was the Pond
"Created during World War II as a purely U.S. operation free of the perceived taint of European allies, the Pond existed for 13 years and was shrouded in secrecy for more than 50 years. It used sources that ranged from Nazi officials to Stalinists and, at one point, a French serial killer"
(tags:pol war spy )

Links for 2010-07-30

Warren Ellis — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:00:01 +0000

The Associated Press: AP IMPACT: Before the CIA, there was the Pond
"Created during World War II as a purely U.S. operation free of the perceived taint of European allies, the Pond existed for 13 years and was shrouded in secrecy for more than 50 years. It used sources that ranged from Nazi officials to Stalinists and, at one point, a French serial killer"
(tags:pol war spy )

Links for 2010-07-30

Warren Ellis — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:00:01 +0000

The Associated Press: AP IMPACT: Before the CIA, there was the Pond
"Created during World War II as a purely U.S. operation free of the perceived taint of European allies, the Pond existed for 13 years and was shrouded in secrecy for more than 50 years. It used sources that ranged from Nazi officials to Stalinists and, at one point, a French serial killer"
(tags:pol war spy )

Links for 2010-07-30

Warren Ellis — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:00:01 +0000

The Associated Press: AP IMPACT: Before the CIA, there was the Pond
"Created during World War II as a purely U.S. operation free of the perceived taint of European allies, the Pond existed for 13 years and was shrouded in secrecy for more than 50 years. It used sources that ranged from Nazi officials to Stalinists and, at one point, a French serial killer"
(tags:pol war spy )

Links for 2010-07-30

Warren Ellis — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:00:01 +0000

The Associated Press: AP IMPACT: Before the CIA, there was the Pond
"Created during World War II as a purely U.S. operation free of the perceived taint of European allies, the Pond existed for 13 years and was shrouded in secrecy for more than 50 years. It used sources that ranged from Nazi officials to Stalinists and, at one point, a French serial killer"
(tags:pol war spy )

Links for 2010-07-30

Warren Ellis — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:01 +0000

The Associated Press: AP IMPACT: Before the CIA, there was the Pond
"Created during World War II as a purely U.S. operation free of the perceived taint of European allies, the Pond existed for 13 years and was shrouded in secrecy for more than 50 years. It used sources that ranged from Nazi officials to Stalinists and, at one point, a French serial killer"
(tags:pol war spy )

Links for 2010-07-30

Warren Ellis — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:00:02 +0000

The Associated Press: AP IMPACT: Before the CIA, there was the Pond
"Created during World War II as a purely U.S. operation free of the perceived taint of European allies, the Pond existed for 13 years and was shrouded in secrecy for more than 50 years. It used sources that ranged from Nazi officials to Stalinists and, at one point, a French serial killer"
(tags:pol war spy )

The Final RED Poster

Warren Ellis — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:51:15 +0000

A composite of the character posters that came before.

Warren Ellis — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:28:23 +0000

If you were interested in the Lastwear waistcoat offer but their site crapped out on you due to, um, me having sent quite a lot of people there and thus vaporising their hosting… we’ve given Lastwear a home on Whitechapel to take questions, give further details on their scheme and basically do their business.

Warren Ellis — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:25:41 +0000

Kat Foisy is really good live.

Art At The Original Productions Office

Warren Ellis — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:11:18 +0000

They have a wall of these, one plate for each of their most popular shows.

The exec I met there was born a mile from where I live. Helen Mirren thinks there’s something in the water here. It’s probably irradiated sewage.

Sent from my outboard brain

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Jamais by Rich

Warren Ellis — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:06:03 +0000

Jamais Cascio in Rich Stevens’ DIESEL SWEETIES comic.

Taken by Jamais Cascio

Sent from my outboard brain

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FREAKANGELS 0105

Warren Ellis — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:33:39 +0000

And we’re back.

The Dose #3

Warren Ellis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:45:47 +0000

PDF-mag, this issue focussing on Parisian alt.culture. 4 euros a pop for this one, previous issues are free downloads.

THE DOSE magazine – Issue 3 (Paris) TEASER

Links for 2010-07-29

Warren Ellis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:01 +0000

Extremely Bad Advice: Harassment Resources – National Post
just fucking genius, really
(tags:peopleiknow funny )

Warren Ellis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:04:34 +0000

"…nobody should be older than Warren Ellis except maybe Alan Moore."

The Publishing Death Spiral

Warren Ellis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:39:46 +0000

Norman Spinrad just emailed me this link to what appears to be the first of a series of posts about The Publishing Death Spiral, the core of which is this:

Here’s how it works. Barnes and Noble and Borders, the major bookstore chains, control the lion’s share of retail book sales. They order centrally for all their outlets together, for instance there is a single buyer for all science fiction, all mysteries, etc. How, you may well ask, can these buyers read and pass judgement on, for example, the over 1000 SF titles published in a year?

Of course the answer is they can’t. Instead, an equation makes the buys of most of the books on the racks or blackballs the ones that don’t make it that far. It’s called “order to net.”

Let’s say that some chain has ordered 10,000 copies of a novel, sold 8000 copies, and returned 2000, a really excellent sell-through of 80%. So they order to net on the author’s next novel, meaning 8000 copies. And let’s even say they still have an 80% sell-through of 6400 books, so they order 6400 copies of the next book, and sell 5120….

You see where this mathematical regression is going, don’t you?

Read the whole thing.

The Pulp Publishing Spreadsheet

Warren Ellis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:40:51 +0000

Jess Nevins never fails to amaze me.

…if the pulps are supposed to have died around 1950, why were there so many pulps published after that? Certainly, it seemed to me that there were a lot of pulps published after 1950, and that the "death" of the pulps was overstated. But there was really only one way to resolve this: a spreadsheet (Yes, I’m a stat wonk, I guess)…

And, at the link, you will find the link to said spreadsheet, as well as all the relevant history, explanations and details.

Balam Acab

Warren Ellis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:12:04 +0000

I like to think that if Cranes had formed last month rather than 20 years ago, this is what they’d sound like. "See Birds," Balam Acab.

Station Ident: Up Late

Warren Ellis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:00:13 +0000

(”Dan Delion”)

Night Music: Peter Yates

Warren Ellis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:21:22 +0000

whitechapel 28jul10

Warren Ellis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:59:29 +0000

On my message board tonight:

* QUICK CENSUS Because I’m Senile – Who Here Makes Magazines?

* SUPERGOD #4 Preview

* New Comics Talk (28jul10)

* Exotic Virology

* R.I.P. JOHN CALLAHAN

Lastwear’s “Pay What You Like” Offer

Warren Ellis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:04:55 +0000

Clothing company Lastwear are trying something interesting. They are offering a tunic-styled waistcoat for men and an underbust waistcoat for women for… whatever price you’re willing to pay over the base cost of the materials (USD $45 for the men’s, $40 for the women’s).

All the details are here. Lastwear make interesting clothes, and this is an interesting way to spread the word.

Warren Ellis — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:31:20 +0000

Realised on Saturday night that @warrenellis is to blame for everythingWed Jul 28 20:45:43 via webJamie McKelvie
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Warren Ellis — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:29:52 +0000

Laurenn McCubbin’s issue of DC Vertigo Comics’ MADAME XANADU is out this week. Laurenn’s an old friend and previous collaborator, and the online comic she did for us at Artbomb.net is still up for free reading.

Links for 2010-07-28

Warren Ellis — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:00:01 +0000

flickrgeist 28jul10

Warren Ellis — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:41:03 +0000

The day in photos by friends and acquaintances:

1. john, 2. deer_bleedingout, 3. MADAME XANADU sketch, 4. And Now It’s In Print, 5. Starling working session, 6. Intrigue

Warren Ellis — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:24:13 +0000

The t-shirt of the month is still available, and also comes on other garments and on mugs.

Warren Ellis — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:41:58 +0000

there are two types of people on twitter: people I enjoy following, and people I’m afraid will confront me if I unfollow them.Tue Jul 27 15:59:18 via webMorgan Murphy
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