Phil Elliott
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.
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 F Sutherland,
Mike Matthews and
Dave Hine as well as Phil himself. Elipse was a unique fanzine at the time, featuring solely comic strips.
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.
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's
Lucifer. Phil was also responsible for colouring many of the covers of Eddie's comics for
Harrier Comics.
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.
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.
Phil's early influences were mainly US comicbook artists, including
Bernie 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.
Phil's recent work includes
TUPELO and
Absent Friends for
Slave Labor Graphics and
Illegal Alien for
Dark Horse Comics*
http://www.elliott-design.com - Phil Elliott's website
