Warren Ellis This article is about Warren Ellis, the writer of comic books. There is a separate article about Warren Ellis, the violinist and composer. Warren Ellis is a British author of comic books and graphic novels who is well known for his hate-filled writings decrying the state of the comic industry and superheros. 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 failing Hellstorm series with #12 and wrote the series till its demise with #21. He also did some work on Marvel's failing 2099 imprint. His most notable early Marvel work is a run on Excalibur, a superhero series set in Britain. Ellis then started working for DC Comics, Caliber Comics and, most notably, Image Comics' Wildstorm division, where he wrote DV8, a Gen13 spin-off series, and took over Stormwatch. He wrote the original Stormwatch series from #37 to 50 with artist Tom Raney, as well as volume 2 with artist Bryan Hitch success. Following the end of volume 2, with issue #11, Ellis and Hitch launched the highly regarded The Authority, a superhero team raising from the ashes of Stormwatch to greater commercial success. By the end of 1997 Ellis had also started his creator-owned series Transmetropolitan with artist Darick Robertson at DC's Helix imprint. Transmetropolitan got shifted to the Vertigo imprint within a year, but remained one of the most successful non-superhero comics DC published. Transmetropolitan ran for 60 issues (plus a few specials), ending in 2002 at the conclusion of its storyline. 1999 saw the launch of Planetary, another Wildstorm series by Ellis and John Cassaday, and Ellis' short run on the DC/Vertigo series Hellblazer. Ellis also returned to Marvel Comics to head the "Counter X" line of titles which was intended to revitalize the fringe X-Men spinoff books Generation X (comics), X-Man, and X-Force. The line was not successful, driving Ellis away from mainstream superhero comics for a time. In 2003 Ellis started Global Frequency, a 12-issue mini-series for Wildstorm and continued to produce work for various publishers, including DC, Avatar Comics, AiT/PlanetLar, Cliffhanger and Homage Comics. In 2004 Ellis came back to mainstream superhero comics - a "Year of Whoredom", as he put it. He took over Ultimate Fantastic Four and Iron Man, both for Marvel, with whom he signed a two-year exclusive work for hire contract. Bibliography The Complete Warren Ellis bibilography Every single issue and graphical novel written by Ellis from 1982 Marvel Comics Hellstorm - Prince of Lies Doom 2099 Druid Excalibur Starjammers Storm Pryde and Wisdom Ruins Ultimate Fantastic Four (2004) Ultimate Nightmare (2004) Ultimate Secret (2004) Wildstorm DV8 Stormwatch The Authority Planetary with John Cassaday Global Frequency Mek Red Reload Tokyo Storm Warning DC Comics and Vertigo Transmetropolitan Hellblazer Orbiter Image Comics City of Silence Ministry of Space Avatar Bad World Dark Blue From the Desk of Warren Ellis, a collection of essays from Ellis' mailing list of the same name Scars Strange Kiss Stranger Kisses Strange Killings Strange Killings: Body Orchard Strange Killings: Necromancer Others Lazarus Churchyard Calibrations, later reprinted as Atmospherics (Caliber Comics) Available Light, a work of prose and photography published by AiT/PlanetLar Come in Alone, a collection of Ellis' essays published originally at Comicbookresources Switchblade Honey, published by AiT/PlanetLar Sugarvirus External links Warren Ellis official web site Die Puny Humans, Ellis' research blog The Complete Warren Ellis bibilography Bad Signal, Ellis' rant and "thinking out loud" mailing list Brainpowered, Ellis column at ArtBomb FAVORITE ARTICLES: History of the World    History of the United States    History of Europe    Ancient History    History    Military History    World War I    Bombing of Dresden    California    US Constitution    Frank Sinatra    Boston    Marbury v. Madison This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html You may copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license. You must provide a link to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html To view or edit this article at Wikipedia go to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Ellis