Warren EllisBorn: 16 February 1968
Essex, England
Best well known perhaps for his vitriolic creator-owned hit series Transmetropolitan (starring outlaw journalist from the future Spider Jerusalem: "If you loved me, you'd all kill yourselves today.") Warren Ellis is a craggy, hyper, often-amusing beardy guy obsessed with the future and everything in it (transhumans, extropianism, etc). Big on the web ("I am, in fact, Internet Jesus. Hurrah.") and prone to writing comics that sound like they belong in New Scientist - his work doesn't tend to push the form of comics so much as the subjects and ideas that they can hold. On the one hand responsible - with The Authority - for the development of "widescreen" comics (comics that feel like big-budget blockbuster movies) and on the other hand making small twisted freaky things like Desolation Jones, FreakAngels and Aetheric Mechanics. He's cerebral but at the same time maintains a healthy interest in sex, swearing and superheroes.
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Links: Official website, Wikiquotes, PopImage Interview, GraphiContent Article: Top 25 Warren Ellis Comics.
Selected works: Transmetropolitan, The Authority, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Gravel, Ministry of Space, Thunderbolts: Faith in Monsters / Caged Angels, Global Frequency, Fell, Iron Man: Extremis, Desolation Jones, Ultimate Galactus Trilogy, FreakAngels, Crécy, Aetheric Mechanics, Red, Black Summer, Anna Mercury, Planetary, Planetary: Crossing Worlds, Doktor Sleepless, Ultimate Comics: Iron Man: Armor Wars, No Hero, X-Men: Astonishing X-Men, Supergod, The Avengers: Secret Avengers: Run the Mission, Don't Get Seen, Save the World.
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