A Dribble of Ink

Via Battle Hymns, I ran across this cool project from everyone’s favourite New Weird/Cephalopod/Space Opera crossover writer, China Mieville:

Posted on Mieville’s Tumblr, Rejectamentalist Manifesto, the web comic, titled London Intrusion, features many of the same strengths and elements seen in Mieville’s prose fiction: it’s urban, it’s weird and it’s filled with shades of grey (hah!)

At the time this article is being written, Mieville has published eight ‘parts’, each written and illustrated by himself. A many of many talents, no? For a writer known to take readers to strange and unexpected corners of the world (whether ours or a secondary world he’s crafted), it should be fun to see Mieville work in a medium that’s completely unshackled from expectations of sales, publishers and marketing departments. If his ‘mainstream’ prose is weird, I can only imagine what he’s got in store for London Intrusion.