Warren Ellis (natural February 16, 1968) is a British author of comic books and graphic novels who is easily known for his acerbic wit & sociocultural comment each as an on the net presence & across his artistic output. He occurs as resident of Southend-on-Sea, England.

He was born roughly 17 months prior to Neil Armstrong landed on the moon on July 20 1969. A televised broadcast of the event is his reported earliest orderly memory.

Career

Ellis' writing career began in the British independent magazine Deadline with a Captainside hicks report short story in 1990. More early works include the Judge Dredd short and the Doctor Who one-pager. His number one on-going function, Lazarus Churchyard appeared in Blast!, the short lived British magazine.

By 1994 Ellis began working for Marvel Comics, where he took above a failing Hellstorm series sustaining #12 & wrote a series till its dying with #21. He likewise did a select few act on the failing Marvel 2099 imprint, most notably within the plot line in which the futurist Doctor Doom took over a United States. His virtually all notable early Wonder functiin occurs as begin on Excalibur, a superhero series set inside Britain. He besides wrote the handful of issues of Thor, in which he dramatically revamped two a character & book.

Ellis so began working for DC Comics, Caliber Comics, and - virtually all notably - , a superhero team rising from either a ashes of Stormwatch.

Inside 1997 Ellis started his developer-owned series Transmetropolitan'' - about an acerbic "gonzo" journalist inside touching-first United states - sustaining creative person Darick Robertson at DC's Helix imprint. Whenever Helix was discontinued a as a result season, Transmetropolitan was shifted to the Vertigo imprint, and remained one of a virtually all successful non-superhero comedian DC published. Transmetropolitan ran forLx issues (+ a couple of specials), ending around 2002 at the guide of its plot line.

1999 saw the launch of Planetary, another Wildstorm series by Ellis & John Cassaday, and Ellis' short dog on the DC/Vertigo series Hellblazer. He left that series once DC announced, resulting a Columbine High School shootings, that it would not publish "Shoot", the story depicting the similar incident, which he'd antecedently written & was already illustrated & scheduled for publication.

Ellis too returned to Marvel Comics, when a share of the company's "Revolution" event, to head the "Counter-X" line of titles. This line was arranged to revitalize a X-Men spinoff books Generation X (comics), X-Man, and X-Force, but it was non successful, camping Ellis out of mainstream superhero comedian for the period.

Around 2003 Ellis started Global Frequency, a 12-issue mini-series for Wildstorm and continued to create function for various publishers, including DC, Avatar Comics, AiT/Planet Lar, Cliffhanger and Homage Comics.

Inside 2004 Ellis came back to mainstream superhero comics - a "Year of Whoredom", when he put it. He took all over Ultimate Fantastic Four and Iron Man, both for Wonder, by having whom he signed the 2-biennial exclusive work for hire contract. He likewise wrote an episode of Justice League Unlimited entitled "Dark Heart," which debuted in Cartoon Network on December 11.

Ellis' Apparat Singles Class action were freed through a prevent of 2004 & into 2005. Ellis described a titles as "An imaginary line of comics singles. Four imaginary first issues of imaginary series from an imaginary line of comics, even." A Apparat titles were published under Avatar however carried single a Apparat logotype on the handle. Warren is presently working in the Castlevania Animated series, thought no farther datthe has been yielding besides a conception sketch & that James Jean would be involved

Ellis has managed the series of low forums & media to promote his written works & his originative ideals. These include a Warren Ellis Forum, DiePunyHumans.com, a Bad Signal mailing listings, WarrenEllis.com, & A-Engine.net.

Bibliography

Marvel Comics
Hellstorm - Prince of Lies Doom 2099 Druid Excalibur Starjammers Storm Thor Pryde & Wisdom Carnage: Mindbomb (1996) Ruins Wolverine Ultimate Fantastic Four (2004) Ultimate Nightmare (2004) Ultimate Secret (2004)

Wildstorm
DV8 Stormwatch The Authority Planetary with John Cassaday Global Frequency Mek with Steve Rolston Red Reload Tokyo Storm Warning Two-Step Desolation Jones Ocean

DC Comics and Vertigo
Transmetropolitan Hellblazer Orbiter Jack Cross

City of Silence Ministry of Space Fell

AiT/Planet Lar
Available Light Are inside Alone Flick knife Honey

Avatar
Bad World Blackgas (Announced, 2006) Dark Blue From either a Desk of Warren Ellis, the collection of essays from either Ellis' mailing names of the equivalent name Scars Unknown Kiss Unknown Kisses Unknown Killings Unknown Killings: Person Orchard Unknown Killings: Heavy Medicine Unknown Killings: Necromancer Angel Stomp First (under a Apparat label) Frank Ironwine (under a Apparat label) Quit City (under a Apparat label) Simon Spector (under a Apparat label)

Others
Lazarus Churchyard Standardisation, late reprinted when Atmospherics (Caliber Comics) Sugarvirus