Grant Morrison is a polymath best known for writing comics such as The Invisibles, Doom Patrol, JLA, New X-Men, and Final Crisis. He’s written screenplays, none of which have been produced as of this writing, and video game scenarios. He is also an accomplished playwright, and is a musician and has played with various bands, including The Fauvres.
Morrison is a long practicing chaos magician, and claims to have been abducted by aliens in Kathmandu in 1994.
Morrison is currently writing Happy! for Image Comics and Action Comics for DC, along with various film projects.
Recent News
Flex Mentallo is back in print
Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson are working on a series called Happy! for Image Comics
Morrison is organizing an event called MorrisonCon that will occur September 28 – 30 2012 in Las Vegas.
The Grant Morrison documentary Talking with Gods is out now as well, plus an additional disk is about to be released.
Morrison is reportedly working on a Rogue Trooper film and a film/graphic novel called Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens.
Bonnyroad, the BBC miniseries Morrison was working on with actor Stephen Fry has been knocked back. Other film projects include Sinatoro, a film based on his comic We3 and Area 51.
Official sites
Official Grant Morrison Twitter account Stays relatively up-to-date.
Official Grant Morrison site – seldom updated.
Crack! Comicks – long since abandoned (last update in 2004)
Unofficial sites
Previews
Joe the Barbarian preview from IGN
Annotations
Debate
On Grant Morrison and his religious devotion to “the system”
Misc
Above: a song by Grant Morrison’s band The Fauves (“Tortured Soul”) synchronized to an episode of the Batman and Superman Cartoon
Above: Grant Morrison makes a guest appearance in My Chemical Romance’s “Na Na Na” Video
The connections between the childrens’ cartoon Codename: Kids Next Door and The Invisibles
Chris Arkenberg on meeting Grant Morrison
Funny fake interview with Morrison
Obit for Grant Morrison’s father Walter Morrison
Are We On the Verge of the Next Psychedelic Explosion? My essay on Morrison’s interpretation of the Sekhmet Hypothesis.
Reviews
Review: The Invisibles: Say You Want a Revolution
An Idiot’s Guide to Dreaming: the Invisibles
Interviews
Grant Morrison interview in the Onion AV club May 2010
Grant Morrison interview on Batman and Robin April 2010
Interview on Joe the Barbarian January 2010
Grant Morrison interview on Wired (March 19th, 2009)
Long interview with Grant Morrison on All Star Superman (2008-10-21)
Grant Morrison interview – San Diego, July 2008
Interview on Batman (Sept. 2006)
Grant Morrison and Deepak Chopra on ComicCon 2011 pane talking about “why our culture needs superheroes and how they fit into the spiritual world.”
Deepak Chopra and Grant Morrison: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Super-heroes (July 2006)
Two Grant Morrison interviews from Sept. 2005
Suicide Girls interview March 2005
Grant Morrison discusses Superman project (Dec. 2004)
Now classic Grant Morrison interview in Arthur Magazine (Sept. 2004)
July 2004 interview with Morrison, plus interview with his biographer Craig McGill
Extensive interview from Sept. 2002 Recommended!
Sequential Tart interview, August 2002
Grant Morrison interview from Disinfo Nation (2000)
Warren Ellis interviews Grant Morrison in 2000
Grant Morrison interview from 1996
Misc. quotes from Morrison about Jorge Borges
Barbelith Grant Morrison interview archive
See also
NOTE
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