ComicMix Six: Comic Book Folks to #FollowFriday on Twitter
It’s #followfriday on Twitter, and these are some of the comics folks you should be following if you aren’t already doing so…
- Warren Ellis – If you’ve ever read anything by him, especially The Authority, Planetary, or Transmetropolitan, it probably won’t surprise you to learn how angry he can get on his Twitter. What will surprise you—and probably make you laugh–is how flowery his language can get when he’s on a tirade. Oh, and he also has a lot of really interesting links to share and interesting insights on the medium to discuss. Besides, who else do you know that’ll greet you every morning with “Good morning, sinners?” http://www.twitter.com/WarrenEllis
- Ben Templesmith – Possibly the handsomest man in comics, Ben
Templesmith is the Australian-born artist behind Fell (with Warren Ellis) and several Steve Niles projects, most famously 30 Days Of Night. His Twitter feed is chock-full of goodies, including insights as to the life of a professional artist, many interesting links, and a healthy dose of political opinion, if that’s your thing. He’s still one of the friendliest folks around, too—almost seven thousand followers, and he’ll often still take the time to answer a quick question from you here and there. http://www.twitter.com/Templesmith - Bryan Lee O’Malley – The mastermind behind the Scott Pilgrim series hates just about everything on the Internet and doesn’t mind saying so.
That said, following him is really the best way to get news about the upcoming Edgar Wright-helmed movie adaptation. Basically, if BLO doesn’t say it, it’s not official—regardless of what Matt Fraction (www.twitter.com/MattFraction) might suggest. http://www.twitter.com/Radiomaru - Brian Michael Bendis – His Twitter feed might be the only thing the New Avengers scribe has written in the last five years that didn’t somehow involve Luke Cage or Spider-Woman. What it does include is Bendis’s take on just about everything going on in the comic book world, along with reposted links to just about everything Bendis-related going on in the world.
As an added bonus, you’ll get a new appreciation for comic book editors once you see how bad his grammar and punctuation is. http://www.twitter.com/BRIANMBENDIS - Gail Simone — If Twitter gave out a prize for “crazy mysterious,” this Wonder Woman writer would surely win it several times over.
Until recently, apart from the occasional fake flamewar with Mark Waid (http://www.twitter.com/MarkWaid), she mostly appeared, gave an assignment—for example, “TODAY’S ASSIGNMENT: Fictional convention panels that SHOULD exist, but never, EVER EVER EVER will” or
“Today’s Assignment: Tweets as sent by participants during epic comic stories. What did they twitter to friends as it all went down?” —and then vanish again until the next time. Now, she tweets more regularly, if only to tease Geoff
Johns about Blackest Night. http://www.twitter.com/GailSimone - ComicMix — Okay, seriously, if you’re not reading our Twitter feed, what the heck are you waiting for? http://www.twitter.com/ComicMix
