52 Facts About Warren Ellis

Warren Girard Ellis was born on 16 February 1968 and is a British comic book writer, novelist, and screenwriter.

Warren Ellis is best known as the co-creator of several original comics series, including Transmetropolitan, Global Frequency and Red, which was adapted into the feature films Red and Red 2.

Warren Ellis created The Authority and Planetary for WildStorm, and wrote a run of Hellblazer for Vertigo and James Bond for Dynamite Entertainment.

Warren Ellis wrote the video games Hostile Waters, Cold Winter, and Dead Space.

Warren Ellis is well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist and folkloric themes, often in combination with each other.

Warren Ellis is a humanist and former patron of Humanists UK, a charity focused on promoting humanism and advancing secularism.

Warren Ellis has stated that the televised broadcast of the Moon landing is his earliest coherent memory.

Warren Ellis was a student at the South East Essex Sixth Form College, commonly known as SEEVIC.

Warren Ellis contributed comic work to the college magazine, Spike, along with Richard Easter, who later followed a career in writing.

Warren Ellis's writing career started in the British roleplaying magazine 'Adventurer' for which he wrote the 1920s Cthulhu mythos strip 'Whiplash' throughout 1986.

Warren Ellis did some work on the Marvel 2099 imprint, most notably in a storyline in which a futuristic Doctor Doom took over the United States.

Warren Ellis wrote a four-issue arc of Thor called "Worldengine", in which he dramatically revamped both the character and book, and tackled Wolverine with then-rising star Leinil Francis Yu.

Hitch and he followed that with the Stormwatch spin-off The Authority, a cinematic super-action series for which Warren Ellis coined the term "widescreen comics".

In 1997, Warren 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.

Warren Ellis 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.

Warren Ellis returned to Marvel Comics as part of the company's "Revolution" event, to head the "Counter-X" line of titles.

Warren Ellis took over Ultimate Fantastic Four and Iron Man for Marvel under a temporary exclusive work for hire contract.

In 2006, Warren Ellis worked for DC on Jack Cross, which was not well received and was cancelled.

Warren Ellis took over the Thunderbolts monthly title, which deals with the aftermath of the Marvel Civil War crossover.

Warren Ellis continued to work on several projects for different publishers, including Desolation Jones and Blackgas and Black Summer.

Warren Ellis wrote an episode of Justice League Unlimited entitled "Dark Heart".

On 29 July 2007, Warren Ellis announced two new projects for Avatar Press: FreakAngels, a free long-form webcomic illustrated by Paul Duffield, and Ignition City, a five-issue miniseries.

Warren Ellis has five other current series with Avatar: Anna Mercury, No Hero, along with two long series Doktor Sleepless and Gravel.

In 2010, a documentary film on Ellis, Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, was announced for 2011 completion.

In June 2013, Warren Ellis announced on his website that he would be ending his relationship with Mulholland Books due to "continuing issues" and cancelling the release of his short story "Dead Pig Collector".

In March 2014, Warren Ellis relaunched Moon Knight for Marvel, with art by Declan Shalvey and colors by Jordie Bellaire.

Warren Ellis ended his run after six issues, after which the series was taken on by writer Brian Wood.

Warren Ellis joined main writer Kelly Sue DeConnick to co-write two issues of her Captain Marvel series in early 2015.

In May 2015, Warren Ellis reteamed with his Moon Knight collaborators Shalvey and Bellaire to publish Injection with Image Comics.

Warren Ellis launched a new ongoing comics series featuring James Bond in November 2015, published by Dynamite Entertainment in partnership with Ian Fleming Publications and illustrated by James Masters.

Warren Ellis stepped down from the series after 12 issues in December 2016 and was succeeded as writer by Benjamin Percy.

In October 2016, Warren Ellis launched Shipwreck, a new six-issue comics miniseries with artist Phil Hester, published by AfterShock Comics.

The series begins a complete reboot of the WildStorm Universe, with Warren Ellis saying his goal is for the imprint to be new reader-friendly.

Warren Ellis had been previously hired to write a screenplay for Castlevania: Dracula's Curse, an animated film based on Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.

Executive producer Adi Shankar confirmed that Warren Ellis would be writing every episode.

In 2012, Warren Ellis announced he would publish a nonfiction book, tentatively titled Spirit Tracks, with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Finality, a new webcomic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Colleen Doran, was announced in September 2016.

In 2006, Warren Ellis was hired to develop a science-fiction television series for AMC titled Dead Channel, but the project was put on hiatus.

Adaptations of Warren Ellis's works have frequently been planned, to limited success.

The Iron Man "Extremis" story arc written by Warren Ellis was used as the primary influence on the plot of the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Iron Man 3, directed by Shane Black.

Gravel was at one point being developed with Tim Miller attached as director, with Warren Ellis commissioned to write the first draft of the screenplay and serving as executive producer.

In 2013, Warren Ellis spoke at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Hay.

Warren Ellis is a contributor of nonfiction articles and columns to magazines and websites.

When technical issues forced that list to shut down in 2001, Warren Ellis started a new email list, Bad Signal, which was described as "anarchy in your mailbox to brighten up your day".

Bad Signal was replaced in 2012, two years after its closing, by Machine Vision; Warren Ellis ended Machine Vision alongside his relationship with his publisher Mulholland Books a year later.

Since 2013, Warren Ellis has been writing the weekly email newsletter Orbital Operations, which features work updates and thoughts on books, comics and current events.

In 2007, Warren Ellis launched the now-defunct message board Whitechapel as a companion to his webcomic FreakAngels, though it rapidly evolved into his internet home.

Warren Ellis maintains a blog at his personal website, thought it is rarely updated.

In 2015, Warren Ellis published Cunning Plans, an ebook collection of talks he gave at technology and futurism conferences.

Warren Ellis ended his long-running email newsletter, which he had published under various titles since 1995.

Warren Ellis wrote that he was made aware of the offer of a mediated dialogue and that he would be available to begin a conversation.

In February 2022, Warren Ellis relaunched his newsletter, in which he linked to the SoManyofUs.