Warren Ellis

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Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is a British comic-book writer, novelist, and screenwriter.

He is best known for his co-creator of several original comics series, including Transmetropolitan (1997–2002), Global Frequency (2002–2004), Red (2003–2004) and Injection (2015–present).

Ellis is the author of the books Crooked Little Vein (2007), Gun Machine (2013), and the novella Normal (2016). He has written several Marvel comic books, including Astonishing X-Men, Thunderbolts, Moon Knight, and Iron Man's "Extremis" story line arc, which was the basis for Marvel Cinematic Universe's 2013 film Iron Man 3 (2013).

Ellis created The Authority and Planetary for WildStorm, as well as a series of Hellblazers for Vertigo and James Bond for Dynamite Entertainment.

Ellis created the video games Hostile Waters (2001), Cold Winter (2005), and Dead Space (2008).

He also created the animated television film G.I. Resolute (2009). Ellis is well-known for sociocultural analysis, both online and offline, in terms of transhumanist (mostly nanotechnology, cryonics, memory transfer, and human enhancement) and folkloric themes, often in conjunction with each other.

He is a patron of Humanists United Kingdom, a charity that focuses on the promotion of humanism and advancing secularism.

He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea, England.

Early life

Ellis was born in Essex in February 1968. He has stated that the televised broadcast of the Moon landing was his first coherent memory. He was a student at the South East Essex Sixth Form College, also known as SEEVIC. He and Richard Easter, who later went on to write, contributed to Spike's college magazine.

He worked in a bookstore and stationery store, a pub, worked in bankruptcy, worked in a record store, and lifted compost bags for a living before starting his writing career as a writer.

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Career

Ellis' writing career began in the British independent journal Deadline with a six-page short story published in 1990. A Judge Dredd short and a Doctor Who One-pager are among the early works. In Blast!, a short-lived British publication, D'Israeli's first continuing work, Lazarus Churchyard.

Ellis began working with Marvel Comics in 1994, where he took over the series Hellstorm: Prince of Lies, which he wrote until the company's cancellation after issue number 21. He did some work on the Marvel 2099 imprint, most notable in a storyline in which a futuristic Doctor Doom took over the United States. An early Marvel creation, as well as a run on Excalibur, a British superhero story, is a run on Excalibur. He also wrote "Worldengine," a four-issue arc of Thor in which he greatly updated both the plot and book (though the updates only lasted as long as Ellis's book), and tackled Wolverine with then-rising actor Leinil Francis Yu.

Ellis started working with 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 gave him more insight and character-driven flavor. He wrote issues 37-51 with artist Tom Raney, and the 11 issues of volume two with artists Oscar Jimenez and Bryan Hitch. Hitch and he followed that with Stormwatch's The Authority, a cinematic super-action film for which Ellis coined the term "widescreen comics."

Ellis began Transmetropolitan, a creator-owned series about an acerbic "gonzo" journalist in a dystopian future America co-created by artist Darick Robertson and released by DC's Helix imprint in 1997. When Helix was discontinued the following year, Transmetropolitan was moved to the Vertigo imprint, and it remained one of DC's most popular nonsuperhero comics. Transmetropolitan ran for 60 issues (plus a few specials), and eventually collected in a series of trade paperbacks. Ellis' biggest work to date is his book.

Ellis and John Cassaday's second Wildstorm series, Planetary, debuted in 1999, as did Ellis's brief appearance on the DC/Vertigo comic book Hellblazer. He left the series when DC announced that it would not publish "Shoot," a Hellblazer article about school shootings, only after the Columbine High School massacre, although the tale had been planned and illustrated before the Columbine massacre. The publication of issue 27 brought the planetary's year to an end in October 2009.

Ellis also appeared in Marvel Comics as part of the company's "Revolution" event to lead the "Counter-X" line of titles. This initiative was meant to revive the X-Men spin-off books Generation X, X-Man, and X-Force, but it was not successful, and Ellis stayed away from mainstream superhero comics for a time.

Ellis created Global Frequency, a 12-issue limited series for Wildstorm, and went on to produce work for several publishers, including DC, Avatar Press, AiT/Planet Lar, Cliffhanger, and Homage Comics in 2002.

Ellis returned to mainstream superhero comics in 2004. Under a temporary exclusive hire basis for recruiters, he took over Ultimate Fantastic Four and Iron Man for Marvel.

Ellis described the "Apparat Singles Group" as "an imaginary line of comics singles" at the end of 2004. Even "first issues of an imaginary world of comics appear in this series. Avatar issued the Apparat titles, but only the Apparat logo was used on their front pages.

Ellis worked on Jack Cross in 2006, but the effort was not well received and was later cancelled. He appeared on Nextwave, a 12-issue limited series for Marvel. He has also worked on the Ultimate Galactus trilogy. Ellis also took over the Thunderbolts monthly title, which is about the aftermath of the Marvel Civil War crossover.

Ellis and illustrator Salvador Larroca created a new series reimagining the New Universe for the twentieth anniversary of Marvel's New Universe in 2006. On December 6, 2006, the first issue was published.

Ellis continued to work on several publications, including Desolation Jones (for DC/Wildstorm) and Blackgas and Black Summer (for Avatar Press). Ellis also wrote "Dark Heart," a Justice League Unlimited episode.

Ellis' first prose book, Crooked Little Vein, was published in mid-2007 by William Morrow (a HarperCollins imprint).

Ellis has described himself as "a common pain in the arse for being interested in book design." According to a comment made in the first issue of Fell, he has more trade paperbacks in print than any other in the American comic industry.

Ellis released two new Avatar Press: FreakAngels, a free long-form webcomic illustrated by Paul Duffield, and Ignition City, a five-issue miniseries, on July 29, 2007. In addition, five other current series with Avatar: Anna Mercury, No Hero, and two long series Doktor Sleepless and Gravel are among his long series.

The G.I.I. was released in the first quarter of 2009. Joe: Resolute, a series of webisodes written by Warren Ellis and later released on DVD in December.

In 2010–2011, he collaborated with D'Israeli on a one-off comic called SVK, which would be published by BERG, a London consultancy firm. To reveal the characters' thoughts in the tale, it uses a UV torch.

Captured Ghosts, Warren Ellis' documentary film, was scheduled for release in 2011. Ellis' co-producer Sequart Organization also intends on publishing, three books on Ellis Ellis' career: Planetary, Transmetropolitan, and Ellis's overall career. This year has been dubbed "The Year of Ellis" by Sequart.

Mulholland Books published Ellis' second book, a hardboiled detective thriller, on January 3, 2013. The book follows a Manhattan detective investigating a murder, which extends to the hunt for a serial murderer. Gun Machine made it to The New York Times Best Sellers list and received mainly favorable feedback. Ellis also revealed on his website that he would be ending his Mulholland Books relationship due to "continuing issues" and the cancellation of his short story "Dead Pig Collector." Farrar, Straus and Giroux acquired "Dead Pig Collector" in July 2013 and published as a digital original.

Ellis relaunched Moon Knight for Marvel in March 2014, with art by Declan Shalvey and colors by Jordie Bellaire. The series received critical acclaim and helped establish Moon Knight as a central figure in the Marvel Universe. Ellis died after six issues, after which writer Brian Wood took over the series. Trees, a new creator-owned comics collaboration between Ellis and artist Jason Howard, first appeared in Image Comics in May 2014. The science fiction film explores a planet in which aliens have invaded Earth but completely ignored humans. In January 2015, the first story arc came to an end, and Trees: Two Forests, a second volume, was released in August 2016. A new volume is planned.

Ellis recruited main writer Kelly Sue DeConnick to co-write two issues of her Captain Marvel series in early 2015. Ellis reteamed with Moon Knight collaborators Shalvey and Bellaire in May 2015 to produce Injection with Image Comics. The creator-owned science-fiction series follows the members of a think tank charged with improving the future and dealing with mistakes made after attempting to discourage human innovation from dying off. Injection volumes have been released.

In November 2015, Ellis introduced James Bond, a new continuing comics series starring James Bond, which was published by Dynamite Entertainment in collaboration with Ian Fleming Publications and illustrated by James Masters. In the films, James Bond depicts the original character from the Ian Fleming novels as opposed to the one in the movies, but in the present day, he is depicted in the present day. In June 2016, the first story arc, "Vargr," was followed by a second arc titled "Eidolon." Ellis resigned from the series after 12 issues in December 2016 and was replaced by Benjamin Percy as the writer. Ellis created the series Karnak, based on Marvel's All-Different Relaunch, based on the eponymous Inhuman character. Gerardo Zaffino's art attracted positive reviews when the series premiered in October 2015. Karnak suffered many delays, culminating in the replacement of Zaffino by Roland Boschi. In February 2017, the series came to an end.

Ellis' new bookla, Normal, was serialized as four digital installments beginning in July 2016. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux published it in November 2016 as a single volume. When investigating a missing body, the inhabitants of an asylum for futurists are followed by a near-future thriller. The novella received mainly favorable feedback, with reviewers lauding the novella's plot, humour, and prediction about the future.

Ellis introduced Shipwreck, a six-issue comics miniseries starring artist Phil Hester that was published by AfterShock Comics in October 2016. The survivor of a shipwreck who was trying to find out what happened after he was up on another planet. Although Ellis has left open the possibility of expanding the book beyond six issues, he says he is focusing on finishing the novel first.

Despite seldom returning to his early days in October 2016, DC Comics announced the relaunch of the WildStorm publishing line as a new imprint curated by Ellis. DC asked Ellis to write a main series titled The Wild Storm and curating others set in the same universe, taking a similar vein as Gerard Way's Young Animal imprint. Ellis said that the aim is for the imprint to be new reader-friendly as a complete reboot of the WildStorm Universe. With art by John Davis-Hunt, the Wild Storm debuted in February 2017. Ellis' newsletter Orbital Operations said he has a two-year plan for the series. Three more WildStorm movies are expected to follow.

Netflix released a Castlevania animated television series version in 2017, which was written and produced by Ellis. Ellis had been hired to write a screenplay for Castlevania's Curse, an animated film based on Castlevania III: Curse of Dracula. The first season of the Castlevania TV series was released in 2017, and seasons 2 to 4 were released from 2018 to 2021. Ellis will be writing every episode, according to executive producer Adi Shankar.

Ellis, a writer who is based in the United States, and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, announced in 2012 that he would release Spirit Tracks, a nonfiction book with tentatively named Spirit Tracks. The book is "about the future of the area, the ghosts that haunt it, and the science-fiction reality we live in." It's based on a talk Ellis gave in Berlin at a conference called "Cognitive Cities," which was based on a series of blog posts. Tula Lotay, Ellis' Supreme: Blue Rose collaborator, Heartless, a new creator-owned comic book, was unveiled at Image Expo 2015. Heartless has yet to be announced as of June 2020, though Ellis says in 2016 that Lotay and he are working on it at their "own speed."

In September 2016, Finality, a new webcomic written by Ellis and illustrated by Colleen Doran, was revealed. The 26-issue weekly series, which is expected to be out by Webtoon in 2017, follows a middle-aged female detective investigating a murder mystery.

Crunchyroll Originals anime TV series Crunchyroll announced that it was modifying FreakAngels as one of the first Crunchyroll Originals anime television series in 2020.

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Awards

• 2001 Eagle Award – Favourite Comics Story (for The Authority: The Nativity)
• 2003 Wizard Magazine Best One-Shot (for Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth)
• 2004 Sidewise Award for Alternate History (for Ministry of Space)
• 2007 Eagle Award – Favourite Comics Writer
• 2007 Eagle Award – Favourite New Comicbook (for Nextwave)
• 2007 Eagle Award – Favourite Comics Story (for Nextwave #1–6)
• 2007 Eagle Award Roll of Honour
• 2010 Eagle Award – Favourite Comics Writer
• 2010 Eagle Award – Favourite Web-Based Comic (for FreakAngels)