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
aesthetic people series trouble
I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
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.
people
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
jobs writing people
Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure.
ideas long people
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
thinking people use
Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.
book complete entire episode finite form individual rather sector terms
When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.
hundred national originally passing series ten thousand union
I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
millions
If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
comics love
Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.
situations study towards work
I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
bad few kindle
I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.
I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.