Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis
Warren Girard Ellisis an English author of comics, novels, and television, who is well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanistand folkloric themes, often in combination with each other. He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea, England...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 February 1968
bloody calls constant decades evidence hand home media phone social teenagers
On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
future
I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
approach best characters draw fitting line people sound stuff superhero written
It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
interested less rent sold
The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.
adaptable bit bloody comics form learning
Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
people
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
fiction start
If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
business involved
I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.
blow gun bad-ass
Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
sexy fun drinking
Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!
jobs writing people
Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure.
sex book bad-ass
The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.
bad-ass joy mirth
What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.