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Warren Ellis' NIGHT RADIO

NIGHT RADIO is a limited-series anthology edited by Warren Ellis. It will be four, 48-page issues, without ads, in black and white, to be published by Avatar Press in the late summer.

The anthology will have four four-part serials: by Ellis; by Matt Fraction, a webdesigner and filmmaker; by Antony Johnston, an author and graphic designer; and by Micaela Petersen, an artist and musician. 

"New voices seem to be emerging much more slowly, in the last couple of years," Ellis says.  "Too many of the new writers on my end of the business seem to sound like the old writers, and seem interested only in talking about old things. That's not why I got into comics writing, and those aren't the sort of comics I want to read. But, as we're all aware, the majority of publishers won't look at new writers until they're published somewhere else first; the long-standing Catch-22 for the new writer. It takes a publisher with the guts and madness of Avatar to say, okay, fine, we're going to take these new writers and we're going to treat them like professionals and give them creator-owned deals and do the job right."

Ellis explains the reason for the title.

"I associate night radio with newness," Ellis says. "Back in my youth, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, late-night radio was the time when new bands were broken, new musical forms were allowed out, and novelty was the point and not the exception. NIGHT RADIO is me trying to broadcast future music."