PLANETARY #21 is available from today in North America, and from Thursday in all other territories.

Off to San Francisco at the crack of sparrowshit tomorrow morning, and not back until Nov 6. Don’t email me, as it’s unlikely I’ll receive it.

If you need contact on business matters, please contact my agent Angela Cheng Caplan at angela@chengcaplanco.com or my manager Aaron Michiel at aaron1050@aol.com.

See you at Spookycon at the weekend, maybe.

– W

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From the longform monthly serial by me and artist JH Williams, launching next year — headshot sketches of the protagonist by JH, as first seen at US comics conventions this past summer:

I’m Guest Of Honour at BRIDE OF SPOOKYCON.

It happens at the Radisson Miyako in Japantown, San Francisco on October 30 and October 31. Other guests include Christa Faust, Bernie Wrightson and Caitlin R Kiernan.

All details are at http://www.spookycon.com.

PLANETARY #21: a four-page preview.

Available from comics stores from October 20:

Josh is going to implement the new design in a day or two. Blog-by-mail seems to be almost cured — I have to hit a web address after sending to get it to trap and publish, and I need to alter the send address, but it’ll do. I can also open the posting bookmarklet on the Treo’s web browser, so technologically I’m about set.

Once the new design’s up, I can start loading up the site content in earnest. There’ll be a FAQ category by the end of the week, and the new projects stuff will start going in at the weekend. Use the category listing to surf the site. By next week, there ought to be enough content on here to make the search function worth using.

Okay. Time for work.

– W

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sony cybershot DSC-P150/original image 7.2MP 300dpi/this image shot down hurriedly to 72dpi at 3 in the bloody morning

nokia7610/resized for MMS send

I think the blog-by-mail function is working now, although there’s a time delay of a couple of hours that I can’t seem to iron out, and I need to alter the sending address (can’t send images from this one).

The "mobilesignals" category is intended to at least partially replace my mailing list, BAD SIGNAL. I’m keeping that list for alerts and announcements, but when I push a lot of information through that list it both gets virused and generates mail from people who are incapable of using the unsub instructions successfully. So, in the interests of both maintaining a space to think out loud and save lots of time and annoyance, a lot of the rambly thinkstuff will go up here.

I should thank Joshua "no relation" Ellis for setting up WordPress for me, as the code on modern blog systems makes me shit my pants. Right now, we’re in default view, but Josh should be prettifying it very soon.

– W

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ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE #3 (of 5), illustrated by Steve Epting, on release this week.

OCEAN #1: five-page preview in PDF format.

OCEAN is a six-issue series by Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse with Karl Story. #1 is released on October 20 2004.

STREAMING: A Yearlog Of Comics & The World — part 13:

“…all about the thought processes that go into making comics. It’s kind of rambly, jumps from subject to subject like I’m an ADD kid, and is all about things that I suspect most readers of comics couldn’t give a shit about. If you’ve got no interest in the process and background of the medium, the nuts and bolts and the pile of messy thinking that goes into originating a new project, this is just going to bore the arse off you, and you should probably go and read something else instead…”

Queries in relation to the motion picture, television and new media industries should be directed to:

AGENT: Angela Cheng Caplan, Cheng Caplan Company, angela@chengcaplanco.com

MANAGER: Aaron Michiel at aaron1050@aol.com

Queries in relation to publishing should be directed to:

AGENT: Lydia Wills at Writers And Artists Group International

19 West 44th Street
Suite 1000
NewYork
NY 10036

212-391-1112

lwills@waagi.com

– W

Warren Ellis can be contacted, on general matters, via WarrenE@aol.com.

Mail can be sent to Warren Ellis via DC Vertigo at 1700 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, USA.

Do not send your stories, scripts, synopses, pitches or homework. I can’t legally look at them, and I’m not doing your bloody theses. All will be destroyed unread. I cannot autograph and return your comics.

Please don’t send me bombs.

– W

Stand by for action.

– W