Warren Ellis is a British comic book writer, novelist, and screenwriter, best known as the co-creator of several original comic book series such as Transmetropolitan, Global Frequency, and Red, the latter of which was adapted into the 2010 feature film Red and its 2013 sequel Red 2. A prolific comic book writer, he has written several Marvel series, including Astonishing X-Men, Thunderbolts, Moon Knight, and the "Extremis" story arc of Iron Man, which was the basis for the 2013 film Iron Man 3. Ellis' other credits include The Authority and Planetary, both of which he co-created for Wildstorm, as well as runs on Hellblazer for Vertigo and James Bond for Dynamite. In addition to his comics work, Ellis wrote two prose novels, Crooked Little Vein and Gun Machine, as well as numerous short stories and novellas. Comics Early work Titles published by various British publishers include: Doctor Death: The Life Man (with Martin Chaplin): Doctor Death: The Life Man (series of self-published minicomics, 1984) Food for Thought (untitled one-page strip in the anthology one-shot co-edited by Ellis with Gary Millidge, Matt Ginn and Dave Whitwell, Flying Pig, 1985) Electric Angel (with Ben Dilworth, ashcan comic self-published in anticipation of the eponymous series intended for publication by Trident, 1989) Deadline #24: "United We Fall" (with Nigel Dobbyn, anthology, Deadline Publications, 1990) John Brown Publishing: Speakeasy #117: "My Friendly Blurred Days" (with Edmund Perryman, anthology, 1991) Blast! #1–7: "Lazarus Churchyard" (with D'Israeli, anthology, 1991) In 1992, Tundra UK reprinted these seven installments as the first issue of the Lazarus Churchyard series. The series continued for two more issues and was collected by Atomeka as Lazarus Churchyard (tpb, 120 pages, 1993, ) Issue #2 featured a segment with art by Phil Winslade, Steve Pugh, Woodrow Phoenix, Duncan Fegredo, Garry Marshall and Gary Erskine. Issue #3 featured "To Here Knows When", a prose story with illustrations by Garry Marshall. In 2001, Image collected Lazarus Churchyard #1–3 with a new epilogue as Lazarus Churchyard: The Final Cut (tpb, 128 pages, ) Two short installments of Harlequin Bones, a spin-off series written by Ellis and drawn by Phil Winslade, have appeared in titles published by Atomeka: A1 #6: "Dada 331" (anthology, 1992) Ammo Armageddon: "Kil 4/11/44" (anthology one-shot, 1993) Judge Dredd Megazine #7: "Judge Edwina's Strange Cases: Feed Me" (with Sean Phillips, anthology, Fleetway, 1991) Doctor Who Magazine #174: "Under Reykjavik" (one-page prose story with an