Rich Ellis

Considering that she's soon to be the lead character in an ABC TV series, it only makes sense for Agent Peggy Carter to get a chance to shine in comics, too. She'll be front-and-center, along with TV co-star Howard Stark, fighting Hydra in Marvel's new Operation S.I.N. miniseries, which launches in January. Just like the Agent Carter TV show, the series is set in the 1950s and depict the Marvel Universe's version of the Cold War. Kathryn Immonen (Runaways) writes the series, and Rich Ellis (Memorial) takes on art duties.

Brought to the screen by Hayley Atwell in the 2011 Marvel Studios movie Captain America: The First Avenger, Peggy Carter has experienced a major leap in prominence among Marvel's vast world of characters. She'll soon be the first female character to lead a live action Marvel Studios adaptation with Agent Carter debuting on ABC in January -- and she'll simultaneously star in her own mini-series from Marvel Comics. As announced at New York Comic-Con on Saturday, Peggy will be joined by Howard Carter and the mysterious Woodrow McCord in the five issue Original Sin prequel series Operation S.I.N., set in the weird world of the Marvel Universe of the 1950s. ComicsAlliance spoke to writer Kathryn Immonen and artist Rich Ellis to find out more about the series and their vision of Peggy.

Marvel is planning its first big cosmic event since the end of the Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning-penned Annihilation/War of Kings cycle that ran from 2006 to 2010. (Or last year's Infinity, if you count that, but that was all about Earth, so we don't.) Black Vortex will cross over between Guardians of the Galaxy, the space-bound All-New X-Men, Cyclops, Legendary Star-Lord, Nova, Captain Marvel, and more. Marvel also announced Operation S.I.N., by Kathryn Immonen and Rich Ellis, which serves as both a prequel of sorts to the recent Original Sin event and a tie-in to Marvel's Agent Carter TV show; and Kanan: The Last Padawan, a five issue mini series also written by Greg Weisman and illustrated by Pepe Larraz, tying in to the Star Wars: Rebels animated series.

Memorial: Imaginary Fiends begins its single-issue print run this Wednesday, with the first installment of a three issue series that collects the digital-first series' original nine chapters. The story by Chris Roberson (Edison Rex), artist Rich Ellis (Stars Below) and colorist Grace Allison (Wander) picks up where the first Memorial storyline left off, with a host of humans recovering memories l

Chris Roberson has been one of our favorite guests on the War Rocket Ajax podcast for years, and this week he returns to the show with artist Rich Ellis to talk about their new book for IDW, Memorial! Rich gives us the lowdown on a few secrets that he dropped into the panels, Chris reveals the shocking secret of whose voice a talking cat speaks with, and you can listen to the whole show right her

On sale this week from IDW Publishing is the second issue of Memorial, the new creator-owned urban fantasy series by Eisner-nominated iZombie writer Chris Roberson and drawn by Rich Ellis with covers by the legendary Michael Kaluta. Exploring the rich landscape of myths and legends in a manner distinctly brighter than that of The Sandman, Memorial stars a young woman with no memory of who she is o

Debuting in December from IDW Publishing is Memorial #1, written by Chris Roberson and drawn by Rich Ellis with covers by Michael Kaluta. The story follows the adventures of a young woman with a past mysterious even to herself who comes into possession of a magical street shop that occasionally vanishes...

It's the eleventh day of Christmas at ComicsAlliance, as our 12 Days of Christmas original art series continues. Each day through the 25th, we'll be posting a new illustration from a comics creator at Periscope Studio that reinterprets one of the days of the classic Christmas carol -- and we've only got two days left...