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Warren Girade Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of comic books and graphic novels, well known for his acerbic personality and sociocultural commentaries, both through his online presence and his writing. He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea, England.
Career Ellis' writing career started in the British independent magazine Deadline with a 6 page short story in 1990. Other early works include a Judge Dredd short and a Doctor Who one-pager. His first ongoing work, Lazarus Churchyard appeared in Blast!, a short lived British magazine. By 1994 Ellis began working for Marvel Comics, where he took over the series Hellstorm with Ellis then started working for DC Comics, Caliber Comics, and Image Comics' Wildstorm studio, where he wrote the Gen¹³ spin-off DV8 and took over Stormwatch, a previously action-oriented team book, which he gave a more idea- and character-driven flavor. He wrote issues In 1997 Ellis started Transmetropolitan, a creator-owned series about an acerbic "gonzo" journalist in a dystopian future America, co-created with artist Darick Robertson and published by DC's Helix imprint. When Helix was discontinued the following year, Transmetropolitan was shifted to the Vertigo imprint, and remained one of the most successful non-superhero comics DC was then publishing *. Transmetropolitan ran for 60 issues (plus a few specials), ending in 2002. It remains Ellis' largest work to date. 1999 saw the launch of Planetary, another Wildstorm series by Ellis and John Cassaday, and Ellis' short run on the DC/Vertigo series Hellblazer. He left that series when DC announced, following the Columbine High School massacre, that it would not publish "Shoot", a Hellblazer story about school shootings, although the story had been written and illustrated prior to the Columbine massacre. Planetary has been notoriously plagued with delays, but is scheduled to conclude in 2006 or 2007 with issue Ellis also returned to Marvel Comics, as part of the company's "Revolution" event, to head the "Counter-X" line of titles. This project was intended to revitalize the X-Men spinoff books Generation X, X-Man, and X-Force, but it was not successful, and Ellis stayed away from mainstream superhero comics for a time. In 2003 Ellis started Global Frequency, a 12-issue limited series for Wildstorm, and continued to produce work for various publishers, including DC, Avatar Comics, AiT/Planet Lar, Cliffhanger and Homage Comics. In 2004 Ellis came back to mainstream superhero comics. He took over Ultimate Fantastic Four and Iron Man for Marvel under a temporary exclusive work for hire contract. Toward the end of 2004, Ellis released the "Apparat Singles Group", which he described as "An imaginary line of comics singles. Four imaginary first issues of imaginary series from an imaginary line of comics, even." The Apparat titles were published by Avatar but carried only the Apparat logo on the cover. As of 2006, he continues to work on several projects for different publishers, including Fell (for Image), Desolation Jones (for DC/Wildstorm), Jack Cross (for DC), Blackgas (for Avatar Comics), Nextwave (for Marvel) and the Ultimate Galactus trilogy (for Marvel). It was recently announced that Ellis will also be taking over the Thunderbolts monthly title, which deals with the aftermath of the Marvel Civil War crossover.* Currently, Writer Warren Ellis and Illustrator Salvador Larroca , in honor of the 20th Anniversary of The New Universe, are creating a single-title re-imagining of the New Universe Saga, with the first issue to be released December 6, 2006 under the title newuniversal. For more information on this forthcoming title, see the following link: * He also wrote an episode of Justice League Unlimited entitled "Dark Heart". Ellis has managed a series of online forums and media to promote his written works and his creative ideals. These forums are sharply moderated by Ellis and his assistants, to suit the particular purpose each one was created for. They include the Warren Ellis Forum, DiePunyHumans.com, the Bad Signal mailing list, WarrenEllis.com, Warren-Ellis.livejournal.com and The-Engine.net. He is popularly known as "Stalin," "The Love Swami," or "Internet Jesus" on these forums. Ellis' first novel, Crooked Little Vein, will be published in the summer of 2007 by HarperCollins. He is also developing a television series for AMC called Dead Channel, for which he will be the sole writer. It has recently been announced that he is writing an animated direct to DVD feature film, Castlevania, which will be based on the popular series of video games, also titled Castlevania.* Marvel Comics Wildstorm DC Comics and Vertigo (comics)|Vertigo Image Comics AiT/Planet Lar Avatar Press Apparat Singles Group|Apparat Others Trivia He was born about seventeen months before Neil Armstrong landed on the moon on July 20 1969; he reports that the televised broadcast of the event is his earliest coherent memory. According to a comment made in the first issue of Fell, he has more trade paperbacks in print than anyone else in the American comic industry. He was a student at The South East Essex Sixth Form College, commonly known as SEEVIC. He contributed comic work to the college magazine, Spike, along with Richard Easter, who also later followed a career in writing. He makes a lengthy cameo appearance in Powers. Writings about Ellis Much has been written about Ellis' work by other writers, and that trend can be expected to continue since Ellis shows no signs of slowing. The tone and subject matter of his work has changed since his early stories. This change has been notably pointed out in publications such as Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Entertainment. Ellis' work has also been the focus of a number of academic articles and dissertations. Interviews | ||||||||
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