Big Stupid Tommy: The Warren Ellis Interview
Warren Ellis is a writer. He writes prose, comics, e-mails and (perhaps) grocery lists. Among his finer works: Orbiter, the series Planetary, and Transmetropolitan
In his e-mail newsletter, Mr. Warren Ellis, in order to tie off the stump of this old year, wants to get all his interviewing out of the way. So, he invited any and all websites interested to submit four (4) questions, which he would answer.
Since I fall under the auspices of any and all websites, I submitted my four questions, and what follows is Big Stupid Tommy's interview with :
BST: Among comic professionals, with whom do you especially enjoy going out and drinking? (Especially as it concerns who pays the best, and who gets hammered really easily.....)
Warren Ellis: I always like drinking with Garth Ennis. But, see, pub etiquette demands that everyone pays for their round, so there's no "who pays the best" thing. Pub etiquette is very important. Just ask Steve Dillon.
BST: You seem to take a certain joy in posting the occasional interesting oddity as it appears out of the Far East (Japan especially). Is there a Japanese Warren Ellis equivalent who takes similar delight in the grotesque and the erotic that emerges from England (or the West in general)? Does he have a website?
Warren Ellis: God, I hope not.
BST: Do you think it would ultimately help or hinder the comic industry if a media retailer with a little bit of clout (like a Barnes and Noble, or a Tower, or other some such vendor) took up the cause of comicdom? i.e. If they were to open a nation wide (or international) chain of comics stores?
Warren Ellis: Who even cares anymore? I doubt it'd make a blind bit of difference. The current comics store network clearly
exists to sell superhero comics. If any new chain sold
superhero comics, the odds are that the audience would
just switch vendors. You'd just be moving money around.
Probably less of it, if chain bookstores offered chain-
bookstore discounting. Maybe that'd be the end of the
current status quo. Who knows?
BST: Who makes you laugh?
Warren Ellis: Nobody. I haven't laughed since 1983.
Wasn't that great? Thanks to Mr. Ellis for his time.
Also, I got a very bad chicken sandwich this morning at a restaurant. Can't eat beef, they ruin chicken. What's the world coming to?
Warren Ellis is a writer. He writes prose, comics, e-mails and (perhaps) grocery lists. Among his finer works: Orbiter, the series Planetary, and Transmetropolitan
In his e-mail newsletter, Mr. Warren Ellis, in order to tie off the stump of this old year, wants to get all his interviewing out of the way. So, he invited any and all websites interested to submit four (4) questions, which he would answer.
Since I fall under the auspices of any and all websites, I submitted my four questions, and what follows is Big Stupid Tommy's interview with :
BST: Among comic professionals, with whom do you especially enjoy going out and drinking? (Especially as it concerns who pays the best, and who gets hammered really easily.....)
Warren Ellis: I always like drinking with Garth Ennis. But, see, pub etiquette demands that everyone pays for their round, so there's no "who pays the best" thing. Pub etiquette is very important. Just ask Steve Dillon.
BST: You seem to take a certain joy in posting the occasional interesting oddity as it appears out of the Far East (Japan especially). Is there a Japanese Warren Ellis equivalent who takes similar delight in the grotesque and the erotic that emerges from England (or the West in general)? Does he have a website?
Warren Ellis: God, I hope not.
BST: Do you think it would ultimately help or hinder the comic industry if a media retailer with a little bit of clout (like a Barnes and Noble, or a Tower, or other some such vendor) took up the cause of comicdom? i.e. If they were to open a nation wide (or international) chain of comics stores?
Warren Ellis: Who even cares anymore? I doubt it'd make a blind bit of difference. The current comics store network clearly
exists to sell superhero comics. If any new chain sold
superhero comics, the odds are that the audience would
just switch vendors. You'd just be moving money around.
Probably less of it, if chain bookstores offered chain-
bookstore discounting. Maybe that'd be the end of the
current status quo. Who knows?
BST: Who makes you laugh?
Warren Ellis: Nobody. I haven't laughed since 1983.
Wasn't that great? Thanks to Mr. Ellis for his time.
Also, I got a very bad chicken sandwich this morning at a restaurant. Can't eat beef, they ruin chicken. What's the world coming to?
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