What Warren Ellis thinks about creativity
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Warren Ellis has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe joy of making comics is not in the sales and the release and the grind of getting a piece done – it’s seeing what your collaborator has made of your work, and the transcendent object they have turned it into.