A graduate of Syracuse University's School of Art, award-winning artist Steve Ellis began his career as a pencillerw for both Marvel and DC Comics, where he illustrated iconic titles such as Iron Man, Green Lantern, and Lobo. He moved from comics into fantasy art, creating digital and traditional paintings and concept art for Dungeons and Dragons, Hasbro, World of Warcraft, Magic: The Gathering, Random House, Impact Books, AMC and numerous other gaming, entertainment, and publishing companies.
After years away from the genre Steve made a triumphant return to comics, co-creating, with author David Gallaher, the award winning werewolf western webcomic, High Moon, for DC Comics' Zuda. The graphic novel has garnered impressive reviews, over 2.7 million viewers, and was awarded the 2009 Harvey Award for Best Web Comic. He has since been nominated for two more Harvey awards.
Also in 2009, Steve co-created the pioneering thriller comic Box 13 for Comixology. Not only has it been highly acclaimed, it is notable as one of the first comics conceived and designed specifically for the iPhone.
Proficient in pencil in and coloring, Steve has created finished books for Marvel Comics including USA Annual #1 ( The Mighty Destroyer) and Hulk:Winter Guard#1 and has penciled the follow up series Darkstar and the Winter Guard.
Steve’s artwork has been reproduced in hundreds of publications, and his original painted work has hung in galleries alongside artists such as Shepard Fairy, Glenn Barr, Travis Louie, Mitch O'Connell, Shag, and Molly Crabapple.
Not only a gifted artist, Steve is also a talented teacher. In 2004 he returned to Syracuse University, where he taught digital and traditional illustration and life drawing to upper level undergraduates and graduate students. In a short time, Steve’s classes became sought-after and he had to regularly turn away students. In 2009 Steve expanded his ability to reach students by authoring and illustrating Scream: Drawing Classic Monsters for Impact Books.
Steve lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children.