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Warren Ellis and D'Israeli have announced a new project called SVK.
The Astonishing X-Men writer and 2000 AD artist are working on the graphic novella with London-based design company BERG.
"SVK is about… well, SVK stands for a few things, including 'Surveillance, Very Kafka'," wrote Ellis on his blog. "In one meeting I also described the book as 'Franz Kafka's Bourne Identity', which seems to have stuck.
"The story, concerning a recovery agent and a thing lost that should probably never have been made, is set in London. So it has to be about surveillance at some level, as London is probably the most surveilled city in the world, one estimate pegging the level at one CCTV camera to every eight people. At any one time, in fact, a fifth of the world's CCTV cameras are live in the UK."
SVK is Ellis and D'Israeli's first major collaboration since 1991's Lazarus Churchyard.
BERG are offering "inventive" opportunities for a few advertisers in the book, which will be released in spring 2011.
The Astonishing X-Men writer and 2000 AD artist are working on the graphic novella with London-based design company BERG.
"SVK is about… well, SVK stands for a few things, including 'Surveillance, Very Kafka'," wrote Ellis on his blog. "In one meeting I also described the book as 'Franz Kafka's Bourne Identity', which seems to have stuck.
"The story, concerning a recovery agent and a thing lost that should probably never have been made, is set in London. So it has to be about surveillance at some level, as London is probably the most surveilled city in the world, one estimate pegging the level at one CCTV camera to every eight people. At any one time, in fact, a fifth of the world's CCTV cameras are live in the UK."
SVK is Ellis and D'Israeli's first major collaboration since 1991's Lazarus Churchyard.
BERG are offering "inventive" opportunities for a few advertisers in the book, which will be released in spring 2011.
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