Comprehensive information and links about Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis This article is about the comic book author. For the violinist and composer, see Warren Ellis (musician). (born February 16, 1968Warren Ellis 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.

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By 1994 Ellis began working for Marvel Comics, where he took over the series with #12, which he wrote until its cancellation with #21. He also did some work on the Marvel 2099 imprint, most notably in a storyline where a futuristic Doctor Doom took over the United States. His most notable early Marvel work is a run on , in which he dramatically revamped both the character and book.

Ellis then started working for DC Comics, Caliber Comics, and Image Comics' Wildstorm studio, where he wrote the a previously action-oriented team book, which he gave a more idea- and character-driven flavor. He wrote issues #37-50 with artist Tom Raney, and the 11 issues of volume two with artist Bryan Hitch. He and Hitch followed that with , a creator-owned series about an acerbic "gonzo" journalist in a distopian future America, illustrated by artist Darick Robertson and published by DC's Helix imprint. When Helix was discontinued the following year, was shifted to the Vertigo imprint, and remained one of the most successful non-superhero comics DC was then publishing. ran for 60 issues (plus a few specials), with Ellis ending it in 2002.

1999 saw the launch of . He left that series when DC announced, following the Columbine High School shootings, that it would not publish "Shoot", a story depicting a similar incident, which he'd ed prior to that incident, and was already illustrated and scheduled for publication.

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 , a 12-issue mini-series for Wildstorm, and continued to produce work for various publishers, including DC, Avatar Comics, AiTPlanet Lar, Cliffhanger and Homage Comics.

In 2004 Ellis came back to mainstream superhero comics, in what he called a "Year of Whoredom". He took over Marvels' , with whom he signed 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 2005, he continues to work on several projects for different companies, including 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, and The-Engine.net. He was popularly known as "Stalin" on these forums.

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.

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