It's been awhile since we've updated, and awhile since the WordPress Theme broke on us, but Sequential Ellison has never really left. It just slowly became a pile of "to be cataloged" books on my shelf and a notebook full of ideas on topics to research and improvements to functionality. But I've been working on this site in one way or another since 1993 and I was not going to let it completely disappear
Phosfluorescently e-enable adaptive synergy for strategic quality vectors. Continually transform fully tested expertise with competitive technologies. Appropriately communicate adaptive imperatives rather than value-added potentialities. Conveniently harness frictionless outsourcing whereas state of the art interfaces. Quickly enable prospective technology rather than open-source technologies.
Phosfluorescently e-enable adaptive synergy for strategic quality vectors. Continually transform fully tested expertise with competitive technologies. Appropriately communicate adaptive imperatives rather than value-added potentialities. Conveniently harness frictionless outsourcing whereas state of the art interfaces. Quickly enable prospective technology rather than open-source technologies.
This is a fragment of a thought, but worth mentioning. In a 2007 interview with Jamie Coville, Kevin Nowlan (artist Grimwood's Daughter, Jack B. Quick, Moon Knight, Doctor Strange, Man-Thing, and more) was speaking of his early work. In addition to covers and illustrations for The Comics Journal and Amazing Heroes, and stories in Dalgoda, he mentions that publisher Gary Groth pitched other projects to the young artist. When asked what these prospective projects work, Nowlan responds "A Harlan Ellison story, 'Eyes of Dust' and an adaptation of E. L. Doctorow’s 'Welcome to Hard Times'.
When Jack Kirby joined DC Comics in the early 1970s, in his big exodus from Marvel Comics that brought us the Fourth World books, he was full of ideas. One of the things he pitched to DC editor-in-chief Carmine Infantino was non-comic book sized projects aimed at adults. This resulted in the comics magazines Spirit World and In the Days of the Mob, but also numerous never realized projects.
In an article titled "Harlan Ellison Writes For DC" in The Comics Buyer's Guide #572 (November 2, 1984) two projects were announced. The first, a graphic novel adaptation of The Demon With The Glass Hand, would be published a few years later, adapted by Marshall Rogers. The second unfortunately was never released. It was to be a mini-series starring the Kid Flash, which would redefine the character. The article reads:
As reported in Wizard Magazine #38 (October 1994), Silver Moon Comics, a subsidiary of Full Moon Studios [the film company?], which was announcing its launch at the July 1994 Chicago Comicon, named its first comic book series to be "The Drop Dead Comedians" by Harlan Ellison. It was to be plotted by Ellison with a script by Jan Strnad. It would be part of a three title launch for the publisher, with the first issue to come out in July 1995. They started an open search for an artist for the series at that convention with more planned for that summer's San Diego Comicon.
So there is a little more going on with the site than we've had in the past. Sequential Ellison has always been based around a traditional static bibliography, a list of items with various details and the occasional image. Different technologies have allowed us to explore the material in different ways, but it generally has been static text.
Intended to be the relaunch of Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, the thicker Quarterly series only lasted one issue and no further issues were solicited. The stories that might have appeared in it, like Jan Strnad and Richard Corben's "The Man In The Juice Wagon," did appear a decade later in Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Volume Two.
