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MorrisonMania runs wild: At the Glasgow Comic Con this weekend, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely were in attendance and Grant talked about his upcoming DC project, Multiversity, that has been promised for some time.  The multitudes mull it over. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Is This Miles Morales' New Girlfriend? | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News[...]

At the Glasgow Comic Con this weekend, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely were in attendance and Grant talked abiut his upcoming DC project, Multiversity, that has been promised for some time. Comics Anonymous reports; Pax Americana, Morrison briefly spoke about the other titles in the series, including the main Multiversity title which is the framing for the[...]

Before there was Bleeding Cool Magazine, there was Tripwire. A magazine published by Joel Meadows. He’s looking for funding to put out a 20th anniversary

I don't want to know, "I like what they changed", oh gof they like their job better than mine, but what I enjoyed, going back to you guys, putting in friends into the story, I just got a text from a friend of mine, Billy Mcloy, for those who read it he was that muck[...]

I've been told that, while many DC Comics freelance writers have suffered rewrite upon rewrite, note after note, change after change, from the current editorial regime – leading some to leave the book they were working on – Grant Morrison MBE is among those who don't. He has his own get out of jail free card[...]

I don't think a writer whose comic books have depicted the Queen, naked and humiliated, along well as the rest of the British Government has ever been

And here, in celebration of Grant Morrison being awarded the MBE is a transcript of a conversation between Morrison and Simon Bisley from 1994… [issuu width=420 height=297 printButtonEnabled=false backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120616165047-77d8f2b58ba64b3e8f0f90994d1e50eb name=bisley_morrison_tapes_pt1_tripwire_feb1994 username=richjohnston tag=1994 unit=px v=2] Before there was Bleeding Cool Magazine, there was Tripwire[...]

In the new honours lists, to be presented by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her Diamond Jubilee year, Grant Morrison is to be given the MBE, Member of the British Empire, as a Comic Book Writer and Playwright for services to Film and Literature. While a number of cartoonists have received this honour before, this[...]

Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's Happy,  Guarding The Globe, c0-created by The Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman and Alex De Campi going digital-to-print with Valentine. We get a first description of Happy, which also explains the four issue mini-series' title. Meet NICK SAX – a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual[...]

It was the double punch of Jupiter's Children and Happy that seems to have done it. Frank Quitely and Grant Morrison, creators who had worked for DC on the monster hit All Star Superman, Flex Mentallo and We3 and currently working on one of the Multiversity issues together. And suddenly Frank Quitely is working with Mark Millar[...]

Bleeding Cool first reported that Scott Lobdell would be the new Superman writer back in April. Now DC Comics have made it official by arranging an

As we've noted, all current media seems obsessed with a gay Green Lantern or a Gay X-Man or usually both. None more than Brazilian TV programme Fantastico, which recently ran a piece on the companies' news, mixing up Alan Scott and Hal Jordan on the way, bringing in Wertham allegations against Batman and Grant Morrison's Playboy[...]

Find somewhere to crash and save youself another $100. You'll get a limited MorrisonCon edition of Grant Morrison & Darick Robertson's Happy each Should be able to flip that on eBay for $100 straight away Should get even more for the hardcover program guide/sketchbook, especially if you can get them signed and sketched through the show. Which[...]

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Grant Morrison writes;   We also get a description, and a naming, of some of the central cast.   And, to recall that this isn't just about the dinosaurs, we also get a look at the aliens… Dinosaurs Vs Aliens: Free Comic Book Day should be available at all participating comic shops on Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May the[...]

What's going on? It's not the only Grant Morrison metafiction kicking off today, in Animal Man, we get a flashback to a certain arc from another universe… Indeed But for full Morrismania, check out Boy Chimney in Dial H Looks like he stepped right out of Doom Patrol And could well be the character find of[...]

In a playbook seemingly taken from KaPow, the Grant Morrison convention, MorrisonCon, being held in Las Vegas has announced Gerard Way, Jonathan Hickman, Frank Quitely, J.H Williams III and Chris Burnham as the first five of the ten guests at the event. Four more will be announced later (the final one is Grant Morrison, presumably) and[...]

The new issue features an interview with Grant Morrison, talking superheroes This is the kind of thing he says… For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space When Superman's relatives visit, they[...]

This week, I'm going to be taking a slightly different tack to the usual discursive columns: the recent long-awaited release of Flex Mentallo in hardcover has inspired me instead to provide a rundown of my favourite other books by the unique creative team that is Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, as well as an indication[...]

So much for the San Francisco Bay Area… Grant Morrison's MorrisonCon with Isotope Comics is happening in Las Vegas at the end of September Grant, an assembled entourage of comic creators and a select group of comic fans. Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, Siegfried And Roy and now… Grant Morrison It works, doesn't it? [...]

In fact, you might as well add it to your Christmas list. But one additional present you'll be getting is seven new and exclusive pages to the volume by Grant Morrison and Doug Mahnke Which, you know, might just help make sense of the while thing. As well as containing Final Crisis #1-7, Final Crisis: Submit #1,[...]

And today I'm thrilled to get to start satisfying some of your curiosity. As the name implies, MorrisonCon is a convention curated by Grant Morrison, an intimate gathering featuring some of the industry's most exciting comic creators hand-picked by Grant It is a weekend long celebration of these creators' work and people like you and me[...]

What's more, they're reading Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely comics. That can't be a bad thing can it? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEngFNb5CRU[/youtube] According to the New iPad promotional video, kids still read comics What's more, they're reading Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely comics. That can't be a bad thing can it? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEngFNb5CRU[/youtube] [...]

Grant Morrison is going to be doing a miniseries with Darrick Robertson called "Happy!" We're getting that third Phonograph volume that we've all been hoping for (Or at least I have.) And the parking situation at the Oakland Convention Center is worse than San Diego You are strongly recommended to take public transit BART has[...]

Here's a very quick roundup: Happy by Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson  iFanboy has more on this one, with Morrison saying this may be the first of several Image books:  "Beyond that, there are big plans to do more books at Image and I have several ideas lined up!" Jupiter's Children by Frank Quitely and Mark Millar,[...]

Dinosaurs And Aliens is a planned movie from Barry Sonnenfeld and Grant Morrison, who has written the screenplay But he's also written the comic. Announced last year, with a Free Comic Book Day comic coming from Liquid Comics next month, I understand that Dynamite will be publishing the full graphic novel in May, drawn by Mukesh[...]

In a preview of Gene Ha's work from an upcoming issue of Action Comics #9, the DC Source has shown us that the Superman of a parallel Earth isn't the old white guy you might once have known, but a rather buff black man. Grant Morrison recently gave us a black superman President in Final Crisis,[...]

We've already talked aboput the upcoming Isotope/iFanboy Morrisoncon to be held in the autumn, possibly in a San Franscisco area, with Grant Morriosn and nine other creators doing… stuff. But it's not the only Grant Morrison Con going on around then If Con stands for Conference that is Welcome to Grant Morrison And The Superhero Renaissance,[...]

While Millar has a reputation for bombastic bravado that strains at the edges of reality, there are certain steps that he wouldn't take (although these are expected to be tested next week when Mark Millar launches Millarworld Week with Comic Book Resources). However, Grant Morrison has no such qualms! With the comic store Isotope and iFanboy's money[...]

Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert are in the spotlight in what is likely to be one of the most-discussed post-launch books of the New 52. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: A New Superman Origin By Grant Morrison Not only is there an explanation for having a mini interstellar rocket around Jor El's place, but we also find out exactly[...]