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# About me
Okay, my name is Mark Ellis, AKA James Axler.Rather than delve into the irrelevancies about working as a journalist, a newspaper columnist and a white-collar copywriter and all the other yadda-yadda of a full-time writing career that began over 25 years ago, let's get down to the grue.
I’m the author of 50 suspense and science-fiction novels (with more in the offing) 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, now into its fifteenth year of consecutive publication.
I make my living as a creator. 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, 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!), it's 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.
Over the last few months, I've been developing graphic novel properties for Dark Horse imprint, Sequential Pulp.
These properties run the gamut from a new version of King Solomon's Mines (with the legendary Pablo Marcos) to adapting Jules Verne's Master of the World.