Editing Warren Ellis (section)

==Early life==
Ellis was born in [[Essex]] in February 1968. He has stated that the televised broadcast of the [[Moon landing]] is his earliest coherent memory.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Ursini|first1=Francesco-Alessio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7q40DwAAQBAJ|title=Visions of the Future in Comics: International Perspectives|last2=Mahmutovic|first2=Adnan|last3=Bramlett|first3=Frank|date=11 September 2017|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-2936-0|pages=57|language=en}}</ref> He was a student at the South East Essex Sixth Form College, commonly known as SEEVIC. He contributed comic work to the college magazine ''Spike'' along with Richard Easter, who also later followed a career in writing.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}

Before starting his career as a writer, he worked in a book and stationery store, a pub, in bankruptcy, in a record shop, and lifted compost bags.<ref>[http://www.reallyscary.com/interviewwarren.asp www.reallyscary.com – 10 Questions w/Warren Ellis] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306151835/http://www.reallyscary.com/interviewwarren.asp |date=6 March 2007 }}</ref>