Steve Ellis (comics)
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Steve Ellis | |
Born | March 14, 1971 New Jersey |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Artist |
Pseudonym(s) | Steve Ellis |
Notable works | High Moon The Silencers Crimson Dynamo |
Awards | Paper Screen Gem Award, Galerie d'art Yves Laroche: Street Camp Juried Show 2006, Best in Show: Gen Con Art Show 2005 |
Steve Ellis is an American comic book artist who has worked for Moonstone Books, DC Comics, Wildstorm, White Wolf, and Marvel Comics.
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[edit] Biography
He is the illustrator and co-creator behind The Silencers (with Fred Van Lente) and High Moon (with David Gallaher). Ellis' command of the Russian language and attention to detail gave his work on Crimson Dynamo a more stylistic flair with more Cyrillic markings in the background than in the later issues pencilled by Joe Corroney[1].
Steve Ellis’ work has featured CD covers, computer games, trading cards, books, RPGs, magazines, toys and of course, comics. Well versed in digital and traditional media, Steve's has enjoyed widespread success painting and illustrating in the publications of Marvel and DC Comics, for Wizards of the Coast and Upper Deck, and numerous other companies over the past 14 years.
While acting as penciller and inker for Marvel and DC Comics’ famous properties like Lobo, Iron Man, and Green Lantern, Steve has spearheaded such new titles as Wildstorm’s Jezebelle and the Marvel/Epic lines’ Crimson Dynamo. He has created the critically successful Science Fiction comic series Tranquility, his super-powered Mob epic The Silencers (with co-conspirator Fred Van Lente) and has had success winning the Zuda Comics online comics competition with fan favorite High Moon. He has also done numerous illustrations for covers for books and games, most notably the cover of Elric of Melnibone, to be released December 2008.
[edit] Education
Steve is a graduate of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] White Wolf
- Aberrant's Aberrant: Elites
- Aberrant's Aberrant Players Guide
- Aberrant's Aberrant: The Directive
- Aberrant's Aberrant Worldwide: Phase I
- Aberrant's Aberrant: Year One
- Changeling: The Dreaming's The Fool's Luck: The Way of the Commoner
- Changeling: The Dreaming's Land of Eight Million Dreams
- Demon: The Fallen's Demon Storytellers Companion
- Demon: The Fallen's Demon: The Fallen Rulebook
- Hunter: The Reckoning's Hunter Book: Avenger
- Hunter: The Reckoning's Hunter Book: Defender
- Hunter: The Reckoning's Hunter Survival Guide
- Kindred of the East's Killing Streets
- Mage: The Ascension's Guide to the Technocracy
- Mage: The Ascension's Mage: The Ascension Revised Edition
- Vampire: The Masquerade's Clanbook: Ventrue Revised
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Apocalypse
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Werewolf: The Apocalypse Revised Edition
- World of Darkness (old)'s World of Darkness: Time of Judgment
[edit] DreamSmith Books Publishers
- Tranquility (as artist, co-creator, and co-writer)
[edit] Scholastic Books
- Confessions of a Teenage Vampire (as artist and co-creator)
[edit] Wildstorm
[edit] Marvel Comics
- Iron Man
- Spider-Woman
- Crimson Dynamo with co-creator John Jackson Miller
- All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update (2007)
- Darkhawk
[edit] Acclaim Comics
- H.A.R.D Corps
- Ninjak
[edit] Moonstone Books
- The Silencers
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse Bone Gnawers - 'Scavenger Hunt: Project Reaper'
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse Fianna
[edit] DC Comics
- High Moon - Zuda webcomic imprint - with writer and co-creator David Gallaher
- Green Lantern
- Hawkman
- Lobo