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Bio: Warren Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of comics, novels, and television, well known for his sarcastic personality and sociocultural commentaries, both through his online presence and his writing, as well as his use of extropian and transhumanist themes (most notably nanotechnology, cryonics, uploading, and human enhancement). He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea, England. Ellis was born in Essex in February 1968, 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. 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. Prior to his career as a writer he had "done most of the shitty jobs you can imagine; ran a bookstore, ran a pub, worked in bankruptcy, worked in a record shop, lifted compost bags for a living". Ellis' writing career started in the British independent magazine Deadline with a six 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 #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 Excalibur, a superhero series set in Britain. He also wrote a four-issue arc of Thor called "Worldengine", 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 Gen�� 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 #37-50 with artist Tom Raney, and the 11 issues of volume two with artist Bryan Hitch. He and Hitch followed that with the Stormwatch spinoff The Authority, a cinematic super-action series for which Ellis coined the term "widescreen comics." 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 was notoriously plagued with delays, but it conclude in 2009 with issue #27. 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. In 2006 Ellis worked on Jack Cross (for DC), which was not well received and subsequently cancelled. For Marvel, he worked on Nextwave, which lasted 12 issues. The series was critically acclaimed and only ended because Ellis didn't want to carry on with it after twelve issues. He also worked on the Ultimate Galactus trilogy. Ellis also took over the Thunderbolts monthly title, which deals with the aftermath of the Marvel Civil War crossover In honor of the 20th anniversary of Marvel's New Universe in 2006, Ellis and illustrator Salvador Larroca created a new series that re-imagines the New Universe, under the title newuniversal. The first issue was released on December 6, 2006. Ellis continues to work on several projects for different publishers, including Fell (for Image), Desolation Jones (for DC/Wildstorm), , Blackgas (for Avatar Comics). Ellis 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 prose novel, Crooked Little Vein, was published in the summer of 2007 by William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins), with a second novel, Listener, to follow. 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: Dracula's Curse, which will be based on the similarly titled video game Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. Ellis has described himself as "a notorious pain in the arse for getting involved in book design" 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. Ellis is currently writing a column for the Suicide Girls website that appears every Sunday, entitled "The Sunday Hangover." Ellis is also writing a Second Life column for Reuters titled Second Life Sketches In Second Life he's known under the name Integral Danton. On July 29th 2007 Ellis announced two new projects for Avatar press; FreakAngels, a free long-form webcomic illustrated by Paul Duffield, and Ignition City, an ongoing monthly series. Date of Birth: Feb. 16,1968 Birthplace: Website: http://www.warrenellis.com E-mail: warrene@aol.com Favorite Creators: Warren Ellis is a favorite creator of 324 users Awards:
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(2009) Do Anything (2010) Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) Doktor Sleepless (2007) Doktor Sleepless Manual (2008) Doom 2099 (1993) Down (2005) Down (2007) Down and Top Cow's Best of Warren Ellis (2006) Druid (1995) DV8 (1996) DV8 Rave (1996) Essential Wolverine (1997) Excalibur (1988) Excalibur Visionaries: Warren Ellis (2010) Fell (2005) Food for Thought (1985) Frankenstein's Womb (2009) FreakAngels (2008) Free Comic Book Day 2013 (Infinity) (2013) From the Desk of Warren Ellis (2000) Gen13 (1995) Gen13 Bootleg (1996) Gen13: London, New York, Hell (2001) Generation X (1994) Ghost Rider (1990) Ghost Rider/Ballistic (1997) Global Frequency (2002) Gravel (2007) Gravel: Never A Dull Day (2008) Hellblazer (1988) Hellstorm: Prince of Lies (1993) Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead (2009) The Invincible Iron Man DVD-ROM (2007) Iron Man (2005) Iron Man: Extremis Director's Cut (2010) Jack Cross (2005) Jinx: Buried Treasures (1998) JLA: Classified (2005) John Constantine - Hellblazer (1998) John Constantine: Hellblazer [FIN] (2005) Judge Dredd Megazine (vol. 4) (2001) Judge Dredd: The Megazine (1990) Klassiker der Comic-Literatur (2005) Lazarus Churchyard (1992) Lazarus Churchyard: The Final Cut (2001) Marvel Exklusiv (1998) Marvel Special (1997) Mega Marvel (1993) Mek (2003) Ministry of Space (2001) Mister X: The Archives (2008) Negative Burn (1993) New Avengers (2005) Newuniversal (2007) Newuniversal: Shockfront (2008) Nextwave (France) (2007) Nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E. (2006) No Hero (2008) No Justice/No Piece (1998) Ocean (2004) Oni Press Color Special 2002 (2002) Orbiter (2003) Osborn (2011) Planetary (1999) Planetary Crossing Worlds (2004) Planetary/Batman: Nacht auf Erden (2003) Planetary/Batman: Night On Earth (2003) Planetary/JLA: Terra Occulta (2002) Planetary/JLA: Terra Occulta (2003) Planetary/The Authority: Ruling the World (2000) Pryde & Wisdom (1996) Red (2003) Red Razors (1990) Red/Tokyo Storm Warning (2004) Reload (2003) Reload/Mek (2004) Ruins (1995) Sarjakuvalehti (1990) Scars (2002) Secret Avengers (2010) Shi / Vampirella (1997) Solar, Man of the Atom (1997) Starjammers (1995) Starship Troopers (1998) Starship Troopers: Insect Touch (1997) Storm (1996) Stormwatch (1993) Stormwatch (1997) StormWatch (2003) Strange Killings (2002) Strange Killings: Necromancer (2004) Strange Killings: Strong Medicine (2003) Strange Killings: The Body Orchard (2002) Strange Kiss (1999) Stranger Kisses (2000) Sugarvirus (1993) The Sussex Vampire (Sherlock Holmes in...) (1996) SVK (2011) Switchblade Honey (2003) Sword of Damocles (1996) Tales of Suspense: Captain America and Iron Man #1 Commemorative Edition (2004) Tales of the Witchblade (1996) Thor (1966) Thought Bubble Anthology (2011) Threshold (1998) Thunderbolts (1997) Thunderbolts (2007) Tokyo Storm Warning (2003) Top Cow Preview Book (2001) Top Cow Sonderheft (2000) Transmetropolitan (1997) Transmetropolitan (1999) Transmetropolitan (2002) Transmetropolitan: All Around the World (2011) Two-Step (2003) Ultimate Armor Wars (2009) Ultimate Extinction (2006) Ultimate Fantastic Four (2004) Ultimate Fantastic Four Complete Comic Book Collection (2005) Ultimate Galactus Trilogy (2007) The Ultimate Graphic Novel Collection (2011) Ultimate Human (2008) Ultimate Iron Man (2010) Ultimate Marvel Flip Magazine (2005) Ultimate Nightmare (2004) Ultimate Secret (2005) UltraForce (1995) UltraForce/Avengers (1995) Vampirella / Dracula: The Centennial (1997) Vampirella Lives (1996) Vampirella Masters Series (2010) Vampirella: 25th Anniversary Special (1996) Vampirella/Dracula & Pantha Showcase (1997) Vampirella/Shi (1997) Vertigo One-Shot (1999) Vertigo Resurrected (2010) Vertigo X Anniversary Preview (2003) Vertigo: First Taste (2005) Vertigo: Winter's Edge (1998) Warren Ellis Blackgas (2006) Warren Ellis Blackgas2 (2006) Warren Ellis Crécy (2007) Warren Ellis Wolfskin (2006) Warren Ellis' Angel Stomp Future (2004) Warren Ellis' Apparat (2004) Warren Ellis' Frank Ironwine (2004) Warren Ellis' Ignition City (2009) Warren Ellis' Quit City (2004) Warren Ellis' Simon Spector (2004) Warren Ellis' Supergod (2009) What If...? (1989) Wielka Kolekcja Komiksów Marvela (2012) WildC.A.T.s/Aliens (1998) Wildstorm Presents Planetary: Lost Worlds (2011) Wildstorm Summer Special (2001) Wildstorm Universe 97 (1996) William Gravel - Combat-Magier (2001) Wolfskin: Hundredth Dream (2010) Wolverine (1988) X-Calibre (1995) X-Force (1991) X-Man (1995) X-Man: The Man Who Fell To Earth (2012) X-Men (2001) X-Men: Road to Onslaught (1996) X-Men: The Age Of Apocalypse Omnibus (2012) X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic (2005) X-Men: The Complete Onslaught Epic (2007) X-Men/WildC.A.T.s: The Dark Age (1998) Editor:Find all books credited to Warren Ellis and another creator  Upload a headshot for this creator Upload an image of this creator's signature View the contribution history for this creator |
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