On October 19th, history is made at Annex Comics Psychic Fair & Art Expo with special guest author, Mark Ellis! Here is Marks website: markellisink/ He says, Okay, my name is Mark Ellis, AKA James Axler. Rather than delve into the irrelevancies about working as a refrigeration engineer, journalist, a newspaper columnist and a white-collar copywriter and all the other yadda-yadda of a full-time writing career that began nearly 30 years ago, lets get down to the grue. I’m the author of 50 suspense and science-fiction novels as well as being a comics creator. Under my pen name of James Axler, I created the best-selling OUTLANDERS series, published by Harlequin Enterprises’s Gold Eagle imprint. The series is now in its sixteenth year of consecutive publication. I was formerly a comics scripter for various independent publishers and the main writer, conceptulizer and editor of the late (and somewhat unlamented) Millennium Publications. The company was formed in 1990 by me, my wife Melissa Martin and a third partner who earned the right to remain nameless. My credentials in the comic book field include critically acclaimed stints on Doc Savage, Death Hawk, The Wild, Wild West, Star Rangers, The Justice Machine and many others. I’ve worked with comic legends such as the late and legendary Jim Mooney, Don Heck, Darryl Banks, Adam Hughes and Doug Wildey. I also gave the great (and tragically late) Mike Wieringo his first comics assignment (Doc Savage: Doom Dynasty) in my capacity of editor of Millennium. Melissa and I co-wrote The Everything Guide To Writing Graphic Novels, on sale in March of 2008. If I say so myself (and I do, I do!), its a comprehensive volume all about the production of graphic novels/comics, not just the writing. It also features rare and never-before published artwork by Adam Hughes, Jim Mooney, Darryl Banks, Don Heck and many others. Melissa and I teach writing workshops and moderate writers groups in the area, the longest-lived of which is Newport Roundtable, which has been going strong since 2004.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:06:30 +0000
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