Who the heck is Steve Ellis?
Steve Ellis is an artist, comics storyteller, writer and illustration instructor. He has won awards for his work including High Moon and The Only Living Boy with co-creator David Gallaher, as well as his work on AMC’s Breaking Bad: The high Cost of Living game. Steve has also created various and sundry illustrations and comics for Marvel, DC, Blizzard Entertainment, Wizards of the Coast and many more. He has taught drawing, illustration and comics at Syracuse University since 2004. Steve is currently at work on the world of Thronclaw Manor. The story of Melody Hawthorne, a girl who in searching for her long lost family finds herself in a world of monsters out of myths and legend. Steve currently lives in the wilds of Ithaca, NY with his wife Yamila, daughter Luna and their lovely greyhound Blossom.
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Spotlight on
Thornclaw Manor
13-year-old Melody has trouble fitting in at school, at her foster home, and everywhere. To the other kids she’s too dark, too weird, too emo. To the adults, she’s troubled. Since her father’s disappearance and her mother’s coma, she felt like she hasn’t belonged anywhere.
This all changes the day she receives an ornate letter addressed in spidery elegant handwriting to ‘Mistress Melody Hawthorne’ return address just, ‘The Dowager of Thornclaw Manor,’ whom Melody is surprised to learn is her father’s mother.
Compelled to accept the invitation, Melody runs away from her foster home and is transported to Thornclaw Manor only to find that she is part of an ancient and powerful family of creatures from myths and legends and the Manor is a seat of great power. After getting over the horns, wings and fangs, she finds that her newfound family members are kind and warm. Except for the Dowager, who sternly rules the family and the entire realm from her sickbed. Upon meeting The Dowager, Melody is given a secret task. The Dowager needs Melody to travel to the WoodWitch’s lair in the depths of the Near Forest and retrieve the Elixir which will restore The Dowager to health.
What seems a simple task sends Melody through the realms of the Otherworld, a land filled with dangerous fae, nightmarish monsters, and places her at the center of a dynastic struggle between the failing Dowager and her power hungry sister, the Priestess, who wishes to unseat her and take control of Thornclaw Manor and all its secrets.
Along the way, Melody begins to unravel the mystery of her father’s disappearance.
Spotlight on
The Only Living Boy
The award-winning graphic novel series co-created by Steve and David Gallaher
On a desperate mission to save Earth from the tyranny of the Dreaded Lord Baalikar and his fiendish minions, Erik Farrell - The Only Living Boy - has joined forces with Morgan - a mermaid warrior - and Thea - an insect princess - on a fantastic journey into a world where peril and adventure await them!