Ennis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls.

It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting characters from Troubled Souls, Dougie and Ivor, who would later get their own American comics series, Dicks, from Caliber in 1997, and several follow-ups from Avatar.

(...) With hindsight, what Troubled Souls really represented was naked ambition.

When New Statesmen finished it was replaced by two contemporary stories: Troubled Souls by Garth Ennis and John McCrea, set amid the " troubles " of Northern Ireland, and Sticky Fingers, a flatshare comedy by Myra Hancock and David Hine.

Troubled Souls was Ennis's comics debut, and led to a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, and a religious satire, True Faith, the latter illustrated by Warren Pleece.

Note: Sequel to " Troubled Souls.

In 1989, after a few years of drawing television and toy tie-ins, he illustrated Ennis's debut, the political series Troubled Souls, in Crisis, as well as its sequel, the farce For a Few Troubles More.

* Troubled Souls ( with Garth Ennis, in Crisis # 15-27, 40 & 46, 1989 – 1990 )

* 1975: Troubled Souls — Batman III is called to Arkham Asylum, where the Joker has been acting strangely.

His principal novels are The Simpleton ( 1850 ), One Thousand Souls ( 1858 ), which is considered his best work of the kind, and Troubled Seas, which gives a picture of the excited state of Russian society around the year 1862.

" The success of One Thousand Souls encourages translator to start upon the novel Troubled Seas and I am so happy both for you and for Russian literature in general.