Warren Ellis

It's interesting to me how we defang our nightmares -- by mocking them, but also by wearing their skins.

Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is a British comic-book writer, novelist, and screenwriter.

See also: Transmetropolitan

Quotes

• A million fucking message boards, email, Twitter, any number of free tools, being limited only by time and your imagination? If I’d had the internet in 1988 I WOULD OWN AN ENTIRE COUNTRY BY NOW AND WOULD PUT HUNDREDS OF YOU TO DEATH EACH DAY JUST FOR FUN AND IT WOULD BE THE LAW
  • Warren Ellis In Warren Ellis.com, entry 7955 comment 298257

• (On Timothy McVeigh references) In terms of DOKTOR SLEEPLESS (I don't remember much of TRANSMET), it's just a nod to how quickly we assimilate our monsters. How many years was it between Charlie Manson being the terror of California and Charlie Manson being an image on joke t-shirts? I have a shirt somewhere with a pic of his face and, underneath it, the words CHARLIE DON'T SURF. Hitler's a cartoon figure now. Eminem dressed up as bin Laden within a couple of years of 9/11. It's interesting to me how we defang our nightmares -- by mocking them, but also by wearing their skins.
  • in Freakangels.com

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CREATORS	Warren Ellis (writer) · Cully Hamner (artist)
COMICS	Red  (2003–2004)
FILMS	Red  (2010) · Red 2  (2013)