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Get your own Free Home Page(Logging at 12-JUN-1998 10:29) .Jochen Garcke> Right now it is a bit empty here not too many people are here .Warren Ellis> Okay. .Jochen Garcke> But at least some who are not from the booth are also here .Jochen Garcke> They should come into the room any second .Warren Ellis> Okay. I can wait.... ** ERLANGEN just joined "The Warren Ellis Forum" (3 members now) ** .Jochen Garcke> Right now there is a little technical problem, of course, with the .Jochen Garcke> other computer but as you probably also see we are not alone any more ERLANGEN> bingo .Warren Ellis> So I see.... .Warren Ellis> Hello. .Jochen Garcke> I guess the new issue of Transmet got published this week ERLANGEN> computer 2 is online ERLANGEN> Hi. .Warren Ellis> Yes. #12. .Warren Ellis> So... questions? .Jochen Garcke> I just looked over the Salon and didnt find it.. :-) .Jochen Garcke> Everyone has the backstock but new issues from this week I didnt dind ERLANGEN> Who are you? .Jochen Garcke> quite a shame, i want to know what happened :-( .Warren Ellis> Hm. Odd. It was released Wednesday in the US, Thursday here in the UK .Warren Ellis> Who am I? Bloody hell.... .Jochen Garcke> Yeah normally it would be here, but it seems like the retailers didnt care that much for the new stuff .Warren Ellis> Sounds like he was more interested in selling his backstock, yes... .Jochen Garcke> Andreas who sits at the other console has most of the transmet .Jochen Garcke> issues at home but till now he didnt read them ... .Warren Ellis> Okay. .Jochen Garcke> Are there contacts to you from German publishers about transmet ? .Warren Ellis> All I know is that 2 German publishers are after the rights... .Warren Ellis> ...in this situation, the publishers have to contact DC Comics .Jochen Garcke> can you tell which ones ? ERLANGEN> My English is very poor, so I bought all of the "Transmetropolitans" because of my feeling for good stuff. .Warren Ellis> I don't know which ones -- no-one's given me names yet. .Warren Ellis> Andreas, your English is far better than my German...! .Jochen Garcke> hmm, I have some in suspect but we will see, and it needs to get .Jochen Garcke> published over here .Warren Ellis> I hope it gets published over there. .Warren Ellis> By the end of this year, TRANSMET will be published in French, Italian and Norwegian .Jochen Garcke> French and Italian makes sense but Norway ? .Warren Ellis> Apparently there's a small but thriving market there... .Jochen Garcke> I guess the license fees are good for the health of transmet in general ERLANGEN> Why not Norway? It's a language as well. .Warren Ellis> ...TRANSMET will be published in an anthology magazine there... .Warren Ellis> The license fees don't exactly hurt us, no. They're a good thing. .Warren Ellis> And there will definitely be another TRANSMET collection. .Jochen Garcke> so the kill line concerning sale numbers for transmet are lower than for other series .Jochen Garcke> another collection ? which issues ? .Warren Ellis> It's not a lower kill line, so much as the first collection did very very well... .Warren Ellis> ...and TRANSMET has won awards, which makes it look like something worth keeping! .Warren Ellis> The second collection will contain issues 4 to 12... .Jochen Garcke> yeah the awards you collected did make quite an impression... .Jochen Garcke> how far into the future do you have transmet planned ? .Warren Ellis> Yes. "Best New Comic - International" always sounds good... .Warren Ellis> ...despite the essential meaninglessness of the phrase....! .Warren Ellis> TRANSMET is intended to run for precisely five years. .Jochen Garcke> like Babylon 5 .. .Warren Ellis> A Five Year Plan. .Warren Ellis> More like Soviet agricultural planning. .Jochen Garcke> and we can have good hopes of seeing all issues ... .Warren Ellis> Right now, it looks good, yes. ERLANGEN> "Five year plan" does not sound like a recommendable strategy... ERLANGEN> ... especially concerning arts. .Warren Ellis> Does it sound too socialist for you, Andreas? ERLANGEN> Here's no more Andreas, here's Markus. ;-) .Warren Ellis> Okay, Markus. ERLANGEN> But it's not only the socialist touch. It's the principle of time pressure that I don't like... especially in arts. .Warren Ellis> Singing a verse of "We'll Keep The Red Flag Flying Here" ;) .Warren Ellis> Well, I don't agree. Sometimes, pressure of time is what keeps a story lean. .Warren Ellis> And, besides, I've written the whole damn series -- and it's exactly five years long. ERLANGEN> You're singing right now? ;-) .Jochen Garcke> and Darrick Robertson, is it likely he will be on board for the whole time ERLANGEN> Well, it all depends on wether you have time pressure in *presenting* the series or in *producing* it. Each good story has to find an end, of course. .Warren Ellis> Darick will draw the entire sixty issues, yes. .Warren Ellis> And I've written its end already. .Jochen Garcke> that sounds good, how much of the little things in the artwork is his work .Warren Ellis> Quite a lot, at this stage -- I tend to just let Darick run riot with the backgrounds. ERLANGEN> - signed off - .Warren Ellis> It's just down to you again, Jochen.... .Jochen Garcke> i think letting Darick run riot is a very good thing, we can find so many things in the artwork .Jochen Garcke> the other computer seems to have a problem i have to look at it and will room for another one .Warren Ellis> Exactly. The boy's a bit of a genius. .Warren Ellis> Okay. .Jochen Garcke> Jochen just jumped over to the other station for computers don't work always regularly. ;-) .Warren Ellis> :) .Warren Ellis> Okay. .Jochen Garcke> Which kind of SciFi-literature do you prefer? .Warren Ellis> Who am I talking to now, then? .Warren Ellis> I don't read a great deal of science fiction, to be honest... ** .Comic Salon just joined "The Warren Ellis Forum" (3 members now) ** .Jochen Garcke> Andreas again, the stuntman of Jochen! .Warren Ellis> ...I enjoy the work of Richard Kadrey, Michael Moorcock, Iain Banks... .Comic Salon> we are back ! .Warren Ellis> So you are! .Jochen Garcke> re SF, but you so many good tips in your letter column .Comic Salon> Did we miss anything important? .Warren Ellis> Let's see, who else... JG Ballard is very very good, of course... .Warren Ellis> Yes, I did give a bunch of good sf authors in the letters page, didn't I? .Jochen Garcke> recently you recommended Voyager from Ian Banks .Jochen Garcke> and I read it right know, quite good .Warren Ellis> Voyage, Stephen Baxter. .Jochen Garcke> Baxter of course, sieve brain .Jochen Garcke> btw, it is Jochen here again at the console .Warren Ellis> It's a pretty good book, isn't it? .Warren Ellis> ok .Comic Salon> Baxter? The same Baxter with "Anti-Ice"? .Jochen Garcke> I just read the part about the exploding nuclear rocket, .Warren Ellis> That's the one, yes .Warren Ellis> The NERVA engine sequence, yes, one of the best bits.... .Jochen Garcke> the family father where I stay works for Siemens and he told me just the day before about the concept of the russians atomic reactors, they did the same error as the NASA people in the novel .Jochen Garcke> thats one reason why Chernobyl happened the it did .Warren Ellis> Yes, Baxter's based a lot of that novel on real events. .Warren Ellis> So... any more questions? .Jochen Garcke> Yeah, one thing, you care to comment on the Stormwatch situation ? .Comic Salon> Here's Andreas asking for a photo of yours. Is there one available at the internet? .Comic Salon> ...and if there's a TRANSMET web site anywhere. .Warren Ellis> All I can say re: Stormwatch is that plans are afoot and all will be revealed soon .Warren Ellis> No, there isn't a photo of me. .Warren Ellis> There are a few TRANSMET websites -- I list a few at .Warren Ellis> http://www.warrenellis.com/links.htm .Comic Salon> A pity. We could need it for report about the Comic-Salon. .Jochen Garcke> the others should know about that, i showed them your address and we put on the website of the salon .Warren Ellis> There is a cartoon of me at http://www.warrenellis.com/index.htm .Comic Salon> Thanks for the TRANSMET web sites. :-) .Jochen Garcke> exactly that cartoon I just was going to recommend ? .Comic Salon> A CARTOON of yours? :-)) I'm curious... .Jochen Garcke> maybe there is hope for more people, I discussion group next to us just ended... .Warren Ellis> A friend of mine, comics artist Steve Pugh, did a caricature of me for an American magazine .Warren Ellis> I stuck it on the front of my website .Jochen Garcke> hmmm, the people mostly go just past us... grmbl .Warren Ellis> Guess I'm not that famous in Germany yet..... hahahahaha.... .Comic Salon> WHO are you, by the way? ;-))) .Warren Ellis> I have no idea who I am. .Warren Ellis> ;) .Jochen Garcke> Yesterday on a forum transmet got mentioned as a series for which the German series market is not ready for... .Warren Ellis> Why would the German comics market not be ready for TRANSMET? .Comic Salon> Oh, an identity crisis? Well, just right now I'm calling myself "Comic Salon". ;-) .Jochen Garcke> the series market here just got in high numbers in the last 2-3 years, started with superheroes and so .Jochen Garcke> before there was almost nothing in this US-format .Jochen Garcke> and in that are of the market Transmet would really stand out, Preacher got just relaunched as a US-format series before it was TPBs .Warren Ellis> And so maybe people aren't ready for an adult sf series? .Warren Ellis> I'm hoping that TRANSMET is launched over there as a tpb, myself... .Jochen Garcke> yeah, at least in the us-format, in the francobelgian format or in TPBs it should do quite good .Warren Ellis> That's my hope, yes. .Jochen Garcke> I guess in two years you could be here as a real person and not just an virtual online name .Warren Ellis> Hopefully, Jochen or someone could send me a longer letter about the German comics market one day soon? .Comic Salon> It allOne of the greatest Problems concerning that kind of series in Germany is: In Germany most people look upon comics as children stuff. :-( "Adult material" is looked upon as dangerous for juveniles. .Warren Ellis> I'd be glad to visit, yes. .Warren Ellis> That's a problem everywhere but Japan -- the idea that comics are exclusively for kids .Jochen Garcke> I think someone from us will be able to write something down for you, probably it will be me .... .Warren Ellis> It's something we're slowly conquering... .Comic Salon> Not quite. In France, Belgium etc., comics are well-respected as an art form. .Warren Ellis> Jochen; I'd appreciate that. I need to learn more about the state of comics in Europe... .Warren Ellis> ...I've spent too much time learning the state of comics in America! .Jochen Garcke> some people here hoped it conquered, but the recent restart of the us-format got the discussions going again .Warren Ellis> Yes, of course, comics are far more accepted in France and Belgium, my mistake... .Jochen Garcke> btw. did you look at the artikel from die WOCHE I scanned in ? .Warren Ellis> I saw the scan, yes... the text was too blurry for anyone here to make out -- .Comic Salon> Well, in the "Centre Belge de la BD", there are even medals exhibited, given from the king to comic artists for their "work on the Belgic culture". .Warren Ellis> --but it was great to see it nonetheless. Thanks! .Warren Ellis> And, of course, the Minister Of Culture used to open Angouleme every year... .Warren Ellis> (I must go to the Angouleme festival one year soon...) .Jochen Garcke> who doesnt need to go to Angouleme... .Warren Ellis> I'll be in Bergen, Norway, for the International Comics Festival this September... .Comic Salon> Okay, let's have a meeting in Angouleme! .Jochen Garcke> maybe an onlinechat :-) .Warren Ellis> We'll do Angouleme next year and do an online chat from there! .Warren Ellis> :) .Jochen Garcke> OK, maybe that one gets more people than this one, there are some people standing behind us and looking at the flow of our chat, but it seems like you need to get something published over here .Warren Ellis> Yeah, well, once those two publishers quit arguing and decide who's going to release TRANSMET... .Warren Ellis> I wonder if any of my Marvel Comics stuff was reprinted in Germany... .Jochen Garcke> Yeah that was published here .Jochen Garcke> the yeah goes to the 4 Thor issues, I should think more before writing .Warren Ellis> Oh, WORLDENGINE, right... .Jochen Garcke> yeah, the only Thor I read and enjoyed .Warren Ellis> Well, I imagine any interest over there is being rightfully directed to German creators.... .Jochen Garcke> there arent that many German ones, the longest lines are probably for Jeff Smith, .Jochen Garcke> and Don Rosa, Terry Moore, Soreil, Dirk Schulz ( a German One ) .Jochen Garcke> and at the Marvel and Dino ( the German DC publisher ) are hords of kids .Warren Ellis> The German DC publisher is called Dino? .Jochen Garcke> Yeah !? .Warren Ellis> Okay. .Jochen Garcke> They started with Beavis & Butthead... .Warren Ellis> lol .Warren Ellis> Beavis & Butthead? .Warren Ellis> How bizarre! .Jochen Garcke> After that Batman Adventures... .Warren Ellis> In the US, the official Beavis & Butthead comic was produced by Marvel... .Jochen Garcke> And now they have Simpsons and start up a lot of superheroes like JLA, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Lobo .Comic Salon> well actually the german Marvel publishers are Marvel Germany, not Dino, am I wrong? .Jochen Garcke> RE: B&B Dino was quite unhappy that Beavis & Butthead was canceled overseas .Jochen Garcke> The license for Marvel superheroes at that time belonged to another german publisher Condor who isnt doing them anymore .Jochen Garcke> Now it is Marvel Europe, coming out of Italy .Jochen Garcke> And Marvel Europe seems to make enough money to save Marvel US :-) .Warren Ellis> Right, Marvel Italia -- they invited me to fly out and do some kind of convention .Warren Ellis> -- to support their launch of my Marvel stuff there. .Jochen Garcke> At least that is what the chief said jokingly... .Warren Ellis> But I don't see a reprint fee or royalty on foreign reprints of my Marvel work... .Warren Ellis> ...so I politely turned them down and went out to kick cats. .Jochen Garcke> But with DC you do get money ? .Warren Ellis> With TRANSMET I do, because I own it.... .Jochen Garcke> Ah, yeah, sure, and with other stuff ? If Wildstorm licences Stormwatch to Splitter, the German publisher of the Wildstorm and Top Cow stuff ? .Warren Ellis> Oh, yes, I do see reprint fees on the Wildstorm/Top Cow stuff, because they're far nicer people...! .Jochen Garcke> Maybe you should tell them about the very bad image Splitter has for their production values... .Jochen Garcke> They had issues out where you could see that the artwork was scanned in in a bad way .Jochen Garcke> and the lettering is sometimes put in in a horrible way .Warren Ellis> I'll let them know....! .Jochen Garcke> I think we can get to the end of the chat, dont think so ? .Jochen Garcke> Did you start a log of it on your side ? .Warren Ellis> Sure. .Warren Ellis> No, I didn't. .Jochen Garcke> But I had, at least I think so, we will probably put some parts of it on the web if it is OK with you .Comic Salon> unfortunately there weren't too many people involved in the chat. .Warren Ellis> That'd be fine. Let me know the URL, so I can link to it... .Warren Ellis> Not a problem. It'll go better for you next time. .Jochen Garcke> maybe tomorrow with Billy Tucci there are some more... .Warren Ellis> Hope you weren't too bored... .Warren Ellis> Mad Billy Tucci, eh? .Jochen Garcke> Mad ? .Warren Ellis> Completely. But don't tell him I said so. .Jochen Garcke> I wont but I cant promise for the others... .Warren Ellis> :)# .Warren Ellis> Right then. I should get back to work... .Warren Ellis> Thanks for arranging this, Jochen, and I hope to hear from you all soon... .Jochen Garcke> Yeah, goodbye and thanks for your time... .Comic Salon> no we were al but bored... .Warren Ellis> Cheers. .Warren Ellis> - signed off - .Comic Salon> we were everything but bored, but I could not contribute that much, anyway, reading was interesting, thanks. /nolog (Logging turned off)
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