Grant Morrison
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Grant Morrison
Morrison's creator-owned work, the bulk of which was published through DC Comics'
Between 2016 and 2018, Morrison served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Heavy Metal magazine.
Morrison's work has drawn critical acclaim. They have won numerous awards, including
Early life
Grant Morrison was born in
Career
1980s
Morrison spent much of the early 1980s touring and recording with their band The Mixers, occasionally writing Starblazer for D. C. Thomson and contributing to various UK indie titles. In 1982, Morrison submitted a proposal involving the
Morrison's first continuing serial began in 2000 AD in 1987,[4] when they and Steve Yeowell created Zenith.
Morrison's work on Zenith brought them to the attention of DC Comics, who asked Morrison to work for them. They accepted Morrison's proposals for Animal Man,[5] a little-known character from DC's past whose most notable recent appearance was a cameo in the Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series, and for a 48-page Batman one-shot that would eventually become Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.
Animal Man put Morrison in line with the "British Invasion" of American comics,[6][7] along with such writers as Neil Gaiman, Peter Milligan, Jamie Delano, and Alan Moore, who had launched the "invasion" with his work on Swamp Thing.[8]
After impressing with Animal Man, Morrison was asked to take over Doom Patrol, starting their
While working for DC Comics in America, Morrison kept contributing to British indie titles, writing
Two plays staged by Oxygen House at the
1990s
Morrison returned to Batman with the "
In 1991 Morrison wrote
In 1993 Morrison, fellow Glaswegian comic writer
DC Comics launched its
In 1996, Morrison was given the
With the three volumes of the creator-owned
The 1999 film The Matrix has numerous elements which have been attributed by critics to the influence of Morrison's The Invisibles.[33] Morrison was immediately struck by the similarities to their own work upon first seeing the film.[34][35]
2000s
In 2000, Morrison's graphic novel
In 2002, Morrison launched their next creator-owned project at Vertigo:
In 2005 Morrison wrote
Starting in November 2005, DC published
Morrison provided outline story and script work for two video games,
In 2006 Morrison was voted as the No. 2 favourite comic book writer of all time by
At the 2007
At the 2008
2010s
Batman No. 700 (Aug. 2010) saw the return of Morrison to the title and a collaboration with an art team that consisted of
Morrison returned to creator-owned work in 2010 with the eight issue Vertigo series Joe the Barbarian, launched in January with artist Sean Murphy.[78] Originally a six issue series, Morrison felt that the story would benefit from an extra two issues. The titular Joe is a diabetic young boy who begins to hallucinate a fantasy world populated with his toys and other fantasy characters when he stops taking his medication.[79]
Following the closure of Virgin Comics, Dynamite Entertainment and Liquid Comics announced a partnership to publish a hardcover of illustrated scripts of Grant Morrison's Mahābhārata-based, animated project 18 Days with illustrations by artist Mukesh Singh, that was released in August 2010.[80][81] They are the subject of a feature-length documentary titled Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods. The documentary features extensive interviews with Morrison as well as a number of comic artists, editors and professionals they have worked closely with.[82] Talking with Gods was produced by Sequart Organization and was released in 2010 at the San Diego Comic Con.[83]
Another 2010 project was Bonnyroad, a science fiction television series pitched by Morrison to the
In June 2011, as part of DC Comics' massive revamp of its entire superhero line, Morrison was announced as the writer on the new
In July 2011, Morrison's analysis of superheroes, Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero, was published by Random House Spiegel & Grau in the United States and Jonathan Cape in the UK.[86]
Morrison has written a screenplay for a film entitled Sinatoro.[87] In 2011 they worked on the screenplay Dinosaurs vs Aliens for Sam Worthington's production company, Full Clip Production, and said they planned to work with them again on a screenplay based on the 2000 AD story "Rogue Trooper".[88]
Morrison was appointed
In September 2012, Morrison published their first ever Image Comics creator-owned work: Happy! with Darick Robertson. In the same month, MorrisonCon was held at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas). This small-scale convention, curated by Morrison, featured a number of comics industry guests, including Robert Kirkman, Darick Robertson, Jason Aaron, Jim Lee, Gerard Way, Jonathan Hickman, Frank Quitely, J. H. Williams III, and Chris Burnham.[90]
In September 2014, as part of Legendary Comics' big foray into the industry, Morrison launched another key creator-owned book: Annihilator with Frazer Iving. A six-issue mini-series, Annihilator was informed by the writings of Thomas Ligotti, and other nihilistic philosophers, and played with the idea of the satanic archetype.[91] A work of cosmic horror, it stars a monstrous Hollywood screenwriter named Ray Spass in his attempts to finish the script for the next tentpole blockbuster, while coming into contact with the character he's writing about: the diabolical Max Nomax, The Devil himself.[92]
In February 2015, Morrison's second Image project ever launched in the creator-owned title Nameless, with frequent collaborator Chris Burnham.[93] A tale of apocalyptic cosmic horror, Nameless sought to approach the genre from a new lens, with different influences, rather than lean to its iconic founder H.P Lovecraft, drawing on everything from the Tarot to The Qlippoth.
In November 2015, Morrison began their biggest creator-owned project of the decade, collaborating with BOOM! Studios for the very first time to do Klaus with Dan Mora and Ed Dukeshire.[94] Set around revamping Santa Claus as a sprawling superhero saga, it's proven to be Morrison's longest creator-owned work, one they've returned to every year since to do a story in.
Morrison's
In 2016, Morrison became editor-in-chief of the comics anthology Heavy Metal. Their involvement lasted until 2018. During the period, they penned such strips as Industria, The Rise and Fall of Empires, both with frequent collaborator and old friend Rian Hughes. Other strips included The Smile of the Absent Cat with artist Gerhard, as well as Mythopia, Beachhead, Option 3, Nihilophilia, Ten Sounds That Represent a Kind of Person: A Historical Parody, The House of Heart's Desire, and Beyond the Word and the Fool, with many others. Morrison also penned several editorials for the magazine during this period, whilst writing occasional prose stories for Ahoy Comics backup features.
In 2017, Morrison co-created the Syfy TV series Happy!, which starred Christopher Meloni and Patton Oswalt. It commenced its second season in 2019.[106]
In November 2018, Morrison and artist Liam Sharp launched a new Green Lantern comic entitled The Green Lantern for DC Comics.[107] Following the success of the first season of The Green Lantern, a second season was announced, to be published in 2020[108] but beforehand there was a Blackstars mini-series dealing with the ending of Season One, launched in November 2019.[109]
2020s
"Season Two" of Morrison's Green Lantern series with Liam Sharp began in 2020 and completed in March 2021 alongside the release of their third and final volume of the Wonder Woman: Earth One series.[110]
Morrison co-created and worked as a writer and producer on the 2020 TV series
In early 2021, it was announced that a new comic called Proctor Valley Road would be released, developed by Morrison in partnership with NBCUniversal. NBCUniversal's UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, will also adapt the series for television.[112] The first issue was published by Boom! Studios in March 2021.[113]
In March 2021 it was announced that Morrison would write a four issue series entitled Superman and The Authority, illustrated by Mikel Janin, to be published by DC in late 2021.[114]
In a 2022 newsletter, Morrison revealed they had pitched ideas for Series 8 of Doctor Who to series showrunner Steven Moffat. These included a story featuring a child version of the Doctor, as well as a new potential villain. None were commissioned, though the BBC offered to buy the rights to Morrison's villains. (The latter declined).[115] Later that year, Morrison published Luda, their debut prose novel.[116]
Personal life
In a 2011 interview, Morrison stated that they and their wife Kristan had no children. When asked if they regretted this, Morrison replied, "Slightly but I don't know. Every time I think of it I think of the reality of it. I really like kids and I get on with them and it's that aspect of it but I see people with actual kids. The trauma and the trouble. And if I'm worried that my cat is sick it's the thought of everyday worrying about a kid would be even more hellish."[117][118]
Morrison uses
They also wrote that while they never requested they/them pronouns, they have come to prefer them.[125] However, they do not mind being referred to with he/him pronouns.[120]
Awards
Bibliography
Appearances as a comics character
Grant Morrison first appeared as a comics character in cameos in Animal Man Nos. 11 and 14. They made a full appearance at the end of issue No. 25 in 1990, and spent most of issue No. 26 in a lengthy conversation with the comic's title character. The character appeared the next year in Suicide Squad No. 58, written by John Ostrander, as a character named Writer who was one of several minor characters killed in one of the series' trademark suicide missions.[127][128]
They were depicted in an issue of
In Morrison's 2005–2006 Seven Soldiers miniseries and its tie-ins, Morrison appears as the renegade member of eight "reality engineers" and transforms into Silver Age character Zor, then back into a character resembling Morrison in a magician's costume, though with dark hair and a beard. After the renegade's defeat, Morrison, wearing a DC Comics-logo tie clip, becomes the narrator for the final chapter.[130]
The miniseries Tales of the Unexpected features Morrison along with their 52 co-writers Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid.[131][132]
In Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier, Morrison was the physical model for Captain Cold.[133]
Acting
Morrison also appeared as themself in the ninth episode of the fourth season of Titans, entitled “Dude, Where’s my Gar?”[134][135]
Adaptations of Morrison's work
Year | Title | Notes |
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2010 | Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths | Animated film Based on JLA: Earth 2 |
2011 | All-Star Superman | Animated film Based on All-Star Superman |
2014 | Son of Batman | Animated film Based on Batman and Son |
2017–2019 | Happy! | Live-action series Based on Happy! |
2019–present | Doom Patrol | Live-action series Based on Doom Patrol |
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So yes and yes again; I'm much happier being described as 'they' but I won't give anyone a hard time for using any other pronoun.
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In the author blurb of the American edition of Luna — a UK edition follows next year — Morrison uses the pronoun 'they', a description applied to him after an interview which he now sees as akin to an 'honorary degree.'
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I said that if I had been doing now what I was doing back in the 1990s I would be viewed as non-binary or gender queer. Suddenly it was taken up by the fan press and I was awarded the label 'they/them'. I never asked for it. I come from a generation where that just doesn't matter, even being labelled at all is anathema to me.
- ^ Morrison, Grant (18 October 2023). "Me, Myself, and They - 1 of 3". Xanaduum. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
If 'non-binary' means to reject fixed male and female categories as inadequate to one's personal understanding and instead to identify with a 'colour wheel' of available gender orientations and modes of presentation, then perhaps the shoe fits after all.
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As it turns out, I much prefer 'they' to 'he', if I'm being honest!
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Further reading
- Disinformation: The Complete Series Disc 2: DisinfoCon. (1999) Speech by Grant Morrison. Distr. Ryko Distribution.
- Morrison, Grant (2003) "Pop magic!" in Book of Lies, pp. 16–25 ISBN 0-9713942-7-X
- Callahan, Timothy (2007) Grant Morrison: The Early Years. Masters of the Medium. Sequart Research & Literacy Organization. ISBN 978-0-615-21215-9
- Meaney, Patrick (2009) Our Sentence is Up: Seeing the Invisibles. Sequart.com. ISBN 978-0-578-03233-7
- Meaney, Patrick (2010) Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods. Documentary film.
- Singer, Marc (2012) Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics Archived 5 September 2018 at the ISBN 978-1-61703-136-6
- Greene, Darragh; Roddy, Kate (eds.) (2015) Grant Morrison and the Superhero Renaissance: Critical Essays. McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-7810-1
- Greene, Darragh (2020) "'Who Is That Knocking on Your Door?': Authorship, Print, and the Multimodal Comics of Grant Morrison in the Digital Age", in The Birth and Death of the Author, ed. by Andrew J. Power (London: Routledge), pp. 156–172 ISBN 9781138311169
External links
- Official website
- Grant Morrison at IMDb
- Grant Morrison at the Grand Comics Database
- Grant Morrison at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Grant Morrison at Barney
- Grant Morrison at Curlie
- Grant Morrison at Library of Congress, with 165 library catalogue records