Phil Elliott (1960-) is a comic book creator who was published in Escape Magazine. He was part of the British small press comics scene in the 80's. A comic book artist at work. ... The cover to Escape Magazine issue 3. ...

Career

After contributing spot illustrations to comic fanzines such as Bemusing and The Panelologist in the mid 70's, Phil decided to try his hand at publishing his own fanzine and, with the help of Ian Wieczorek and Paul Chester released Blitzine, followed by Delapsus Resurgam. In 1977 Phil, with co-editor, Ian Wieczorek published the comic fanzine, Elipse. Elipse ran for three issues and printed early strips by Kev Sutherland, Mike Matthews and Dave Hine as well as Phil himself. Elipse was a unique fanzine at the time, featuring solely comic strips. A fanzine (also called a zine) is an amateur publication created by fans of a particular cultural phenomena (such as a literary genre or type of music) to address or correspond with others who share their interest. ...

In the early 1980's Phil was re-acquainted with an old comic collecting friend, Paul Gravett who was working on Pssst! magazine. Unable to get his worked published in Pssst!, Phil decided to return to self-publishing and, with Ian Wieczorek again, released the Fast Fiction comic, which took its name from the Fast Fiction comics distribution service. Paul Gravett founded Escape magazine. ... Fast Fiction was a market stall, magazine, mail order distributor and news sheet relating to small press and self published comics in the UK. It existed in its various forms from 1981 through to 1990 under the stewardship of Paul Gravett, Phil Elliott and Ed Pinsent. ...

One of the artists Phil chose to publish in Fast Fiction was Eddie Campbell. Phil collaborated with Eddie Campbell between 1984 and 1986 on various comic strips that ran in the music paper, Sounds and drew the first issue of Eddie'sLucifer. Phil was also responsible for colouring many of the covers of Eddie's comics for Harrier Comics. Alec: The King Canute Crowd by Eddie Campbell Eddie Campbell is a Scottish-born comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. ...

Phil also formed a strong creative partnership with Glenn Dakin which has resulted in comics such as Greenhouse Warriors, Mr Night and The Man from Cancer. Glenn Dakin is a British cartoonist. ...

Phil was a regular contributor to the influential UK comic magazine, Escape, and in 1985 Escape published his Doc Chaos comic. Doc Chaos was written by Dave Thorpe and Lawrence Gray.

In 1985 Phil began drawing The Suttons for his local newspaper, The Maidstone Star. This comic strip ran for 3 years.

After handing over the editorship of Fast Fiction to Ed Pinsent, Phil began editing !GAG! for Harrier Comics. Harrier Comics also published Phil and Paul Duncan's Second City comic as well as two collections of Phil's A Tale from Gimbley stories.

Phil has worked in some capacity for most of the major comic publishers in the USA and UK. His comic Blite was published by Fantagraphics. He was an artist on The Real Ghostbusters comic for Marvel UK and was the colourist on the first 7 issues of Paul Grist's superhero comic book, Jack Staff. Other work has appeared in Punch, Knockabout, Fox Comics and Power Rangers Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, underground comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, and graphic novels located in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. ... The Ghostbusters; Egon, Peter, Winston and Ray respectively. ... Deaths Head II: One of the initially successful, but shortlived titles launched by Marvel UK in the US. Marvel UK was an imprint of Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 1990s. ... A colorist is a visual arts professional - one of a variety of kinds - whose work involves adding or adjusting color in a collaborative work. ... Paul Grist (born 1960 in Sheffield, England) is a British comic book writer and artist, noted for his hard-boiled police series Kane and his unorthodox superhero series Jack Staff. ... Look up Punch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Punch can refer to: Punch from Punch and Judy. ... The Original Power Rangers as portrayed in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Power Rangers is a series of television series, chronicling the epic adventures of the Power Rangers. ...

Influences

Phil's early influences were mainly US comicbook artists, including Berni Wrightson, Barry Smith and Jeff Jones. Phil was later influenced by the European ligne clair, or clear line, artists such as Herge and Joost Swarte. Eddie Campbell, along with Glenn Dakin and Ed Pinsent have also had a major influence on Phil's work and outlook. Berni Wrightson, born on October 27, 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, is an American artist. ... Barry Smith is a cognitive ontologist at the University of Buffalo in New York state. ... There are several notable people named Jeff Jones, including: Jeff Jones (artist) Jeff Jones (cricketer) Jeff Jones (musician) Jeff Jones (Welsh politician) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Georges Remi Hergé Georges Remi (May 22, 1907 - March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ... Joost Swarte (born 24 December 1947, Heemstede, the Netherlands) is a Dutch comic artist and graphical designer. ...

Recent Work

Phil's recent work includes TUPELO and Absent Friends for Slave Labor Graphics and Illegal Alien for Dark Horse Comics Slave Labor Graphics (often abbreviated SLG) is an independent comic book publisher in the United States. ... Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book publisher, one of the largest independent publishers behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics. ...

External Links

http://www.elliott-design.com - Phil Elliott's website