My favorite writer of comics is making the jump to prose. His first novel, Crooked Little Vein, is due out this summer, and may be pre-ordered from Amazon by doing the clicky thing here.
Warning: Not for the faint of heart. Ellis has been posting his research for this book on his site over the last year or so, much of it dealing with sexual undergrounds you never even imagined.
Here’s what Kinky Friedman has to say about the book:
“Warren Ellis writes like a bi-polar Raymond Chandler. Crooked Little Vein injects at least two welcome elements into the tired, clogged mystery field: a a little death and a little life. It’s also funny enough to make you shit standing.”
If you don’t know who Kinky is, here’s what Joss Whedon has to say:
“I think this book ate my soul. Warren Ellis has mapped out the psycho-sexual underbelly of America with a foreigner’s clarity and a lunatic’s glee. Funny, inventive and blithely appalling, this book is Dante on paint fumes.”
So do the clicky thing, ‘kay?
