I apologize to any readers of Warren Ellis's warren_ellis blog that have been burned too many times by that subject line.

So, today was the comics section of the Dundee Literary Festival . It mainly stuck to the schedule as advertised, though a few of the timings were off. Key thoughts. David Bishop did the prologue to the conference proper, with a thing on how to write graphic novels. He was a fantastically excited and exciting speaker and did a lot of things with the audience. He got us to take a film (either...

The polls are open ! I support Jameth and I think you would also find him to be a good choice. Warren Ellis agrees !

I read these two articles on self-organizing criticality today, posted by a fine British reposter of articles, and they were pretty interesting. I like the idea of self-organizing criticality for a lot of reasons, but in the Shaviro article he is saying that you can't automatically trust a structure that has come into being through its own ability to thrive in the first place, because by defining...

http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/495039.html the good part is his quote from the article, i didnt want to be reading a site called bonerparty at work, but still "you have periods at the same time as other women just because you are in the same vicinity as them what the fuck is that about that is some fucking werewolf shit im fairly fucking sure" I laugh when I read this because I thought the...

The Story is All: Ten Fiction Editors Talk Shop "ten of the top speculative fiction magazine editors talk about what they do and how they do it." Ellis talks about his comics scripting process (including a link to a sample script from his currently-running series)

Kirsten's on a plane home now, and I can finally sit down to a sort of peace that I haven't had this entire year, which has been a prodigously busy one (not because of her absence, I should point out). In the first few months of the year, having been unceremoniously given notice (over christmas - classy!) by our landlady of several years, I had a new project - a Wallace and Gromit game for mobile...

This week, warren_ellis has been posting some of his favorite webcomics. I haven't been able to give all of them a proper look yet, but from what I have looked at, one has really stood out. It's called Aimeski, Evil Girl Genius . It's about a lady who is mean to people and it's very, very funny. It reminds me of The Lady sometimes. You can go check it out at the website or, if you...

In the "not really news" department, I've been laid low today by headache and nausea brought on by sinusitis. I've had poor sleep this week due to an elderly-to-the point-of-being-an-archaeological-curiosity mattress and improperly placed pillows. Nevertheless, I've actually gotten some e-mails written this afternoon, to comics creators I met this past weekend at the Hawthorne High School Comics...

via Warren : Astronauts discover a long stretch of damage on the space shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle appears to be in good overall shape, but the survey did uncover a 53cm (21in) line of chips on the vehicle’s right side. The line of chips uncovered by the inspection are in thick tiles that make up the protective heat shield on Atlantis’ starboard side. The damage is located where the right...