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Isotope in San Francisco ran a late night party event with Grant Morrison last week, to celebrate the launch of his new book, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human. And naturally they had a cocktail list to match, created by Kirsten Baldock. Here's a shot[...]

So I've been reading Grant Morrison's SUPERGODS: WHAT MASKED VIGILANTES, MIRACULOUS MUTANTS, AND A SUN GOD FROM SMALLVILLE CAN TEACH US ABOUT BEING HUMAN for the last few weeks and also following the reviews, which ranged from awed to respectful to surprised and slightly frightened, as in the New York Times' Dave Itzkoff's rather square[...]

Isotope Comics is holding a couple of events next weekend with Grant Morrison to promote his new book Supergods and is giving Grant MOrrison cocktail glasses to those who attend the late night party at the store. Combining a piece by Cameron Stewart and a design by Butcher Baker's Sonia Harris, it's the second Grant Morrison[...]

Grant Morrison wrote a fun piece in the Guardian, to complement his Supergods book (did you see the interview on MSNBC the other night?) Including this small summation. The Flash #163, 1966 Photograph: DC Comics This was from the time of pop art comics in the 1960s when DC Comics had go-go chicks, and almost Bridget Riley-style [...]

Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods was just put on HULU. (Hat tip to my friend moonandserpent, who brought this to my attention) Here's a bit of what Rich had to say about it when it premiered last year: But amongst the oddness, the experimentation, the life lived in one of Albert Hoffman's petri dishes, what comes over most[...]

Photo by DC VP Publishing Jeff Boison. Grant Morrison,  J Michael Straczynski, Scott Lobdell, Matt Idleson, and Mike Johnson were on hand at the Superman panel to discuss the future of Superman and related titles  Rich is currently sprinting like a madman back and forth across the convention center, so with thanks to newsarama and twitter,[...]

Here's a sample from Cosmic Book News (hat tip DCWKA) Justice League 1 by Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, and Scott Williams: BATMAN #1 by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo and Jonathan Glapion: Action Comics 1 by Grant Morrison, Rags Morales and Rick Bryant: Rich writes from San Diego: A Little Bleeder emails in… The 'New 52' teaser  It's basically 35 pages[...]

From the Orbiting Pod podcast from Orbital Comics, who had Grant Morrison in before his Forbidden Planet interview on Wednesday Naturally we recommend you listen to the whole interview, talking about his Supergods book, but here are a few headline grabbers… We discover that the BBC knocked back Bonnyroad, despite the series not[...]

Where men of a certain beard had gathered to hear Grant Morrison launch his new book Supergods, a part memoir, part examination of the role of superheroes in modern culture, society and civilisation. No photos were allowed, nor any kind of recording Which leaves me with a few random notes and beer sodden thoughts Let's see[...]

And so here, for Bleeding Cool readers, is a new story for the expanded volume, about the legends Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely… and Robbie Williams [REDACTED] UPDATE: Bryan Talbot writes; I've had Rich withdraw the Grant Morrison/Frank Quietly/Robbie Williams story after a polite email from Grant asking me to remove it I've known Grant for over thirty years[...]

Bleeding Cool is proud to present, online for the first time, the DC Comics New 52 video presentation, featuring motion-comic style artwork and talking heads from Dan DiDio, Jim Lee, Grant Morrison, Bob Harras and Eddie Berganza. Enjoy. Bleeding Cool is proud to present, online for the first time, the DC Comics New 52[...]

The Mindless Ones blog has just completed an interview with Grant Morrison, over his new book Supergods, beset a little by speaker interference and a roadside cherry picker But through the white noise came some elucidation. "The S is a serpent and there is a Curse Of Superman…" "There's something quite predatory about the superhero ideal" Oh and[...]

The fools. Stan Lee's New Venture Will Develop Superhero Films for Asia | The Wrap Movies Panda Media Partners, a joint venture of Lee's POW! Entertaintment and Fidelis Entertainment, has joined the merger and acquisition boutique Ricco Capital Holdings to create Magic Storm Entertainment, which will develop and produce a new franchise of Lee's superheroes to appeal[...]

A scarily angled video shot ogf Grant Morrison's address to the Hero Complex Film Festival at the weekend. There we go A scarily angled video shot ogf Grant Morrison's address to the Hero Complex Film Festival at the weekend. There we go A scarily angled video shot ogf Grant Morrison's address to the Hero Complex[...]

There's the sense that Lee and Johns are well aware of the scope of what they're attempting. Grant Morrison gave commentary on the Action Comics relaunch via video  To no one's surprise, he's promising an unexpected and fundamentally new take, and "a ridiculous voyage into the unknown"  Morrison's video should be available online soon. The event ended[...]

The official blurb for Action Comics #1 by Grant Morrison and Rags Morales gives us the impression that we're heaing for a Year One approach… This momentous first issue will set in motion the history of the DC Universe as Superman defends a world that doesn't trust their first Super Hero. Why does that sound[...]

DC Comics have just confirmed to the LA Times Hero Complex blog that Grant Morrison and Rags Morales as the creative team on September's relaunch of Action Comics. But, in a move that is either audacious or desperate — or a bit of both – DC Comics is making a break, at least in numbering,[...]

DC's Source blog decided to announce a new Batman Incorporated #1 for next year, by Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham, on their own Source blog (rather than letting IGN have first dibs) along with a statement from Grant Morrison; "Batman, Incorporated will continue through to Issue #10 and August's shocking season finale that changes the[...]

All Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely is a wondorous thing But the big collection, Absolute All Star Superman can be a bit hefty –  and out of print And the two separate paperbacks are a little… separate. Well in October, DC are putting out both volumes in one paperback A perfect holiday present[...]

You know how Scott Dunbier has permiered the Artists' Edition format, replicating as perfectly as possibly the original art boards to a comic, printing

A presentation by Chip Kidd on designing the All Star logos for DC Comics has found new prominence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-k5d0UD7o He first

From designing 2000AD for the nineties, working on current Vertigo books, albums for Asian Dub Foundation and DC Universe Legacies. Back in 2002, he had an exhibition of his work, called Alternity, and long-time collaborator Grant Morrison provided a performance piece, with music by Ysanne Spevack, to open it It has never been publically seen[...]

DC's Graphic Content blog has confirmed what Grant Morrison rumoured earlier this year, that DC Vertigo is to finally collect the Flex Mentallo comic DC were initially sued by Charles Atlas over copyright and trademark issues regarding the book, but the case was dismissed by the judge However as part of the letters presented to[...]

Awww… Despite Grant Morrison's assurances that We3 would be produced in an oversize slipcased Absolute format nest year, it seems that it's been scaled back to the standard Deluxe Hardcover size The page count, 144 on a previously 66 page story does indicate that the increase of 33 pages is a shoo in. But, after Absolute All[...]

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Tomorrow at 7pm, the Comic Book Alliance auctions go up on eBay. And pride of place will be the appearance in Batman, Inc #4 Not only will your name be used, but your likeness will be drawn by Chris Burnham (not Yanick Paquette – consider this an art change announcement, I guess.) Grant Morrison says; The winner will have[...]

The Comic Book Alliance, basically the UK equivalent of the CBLDF and HERO with a proactive role improving the lot of the comics, has got a huge amount of very desirable material up for auction. First on the block is a role, both name and likeness, in an upcoming issue of Batman, Inc, courtesy of Grant[...]

BATMAN: INCORPORATED 1 GRANT MORRISON! Batman Inc! CEO Bruce Wayne Superhero here to put vigilantes back to work and save the economy! #2 BATMAN: THE RETURN 1 GRANT MORRISON! I know this book is gonna be awesome, but this release schedule is all out of whack! The order of events is: Return[...]

Next week, DC publish Batman Inc, as Bruce Wayne spreads the Batman franchise around the world. But it seems a number of people have beaten him to it.

BATMAN: RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE 6 GRANT MORRISON! The timestream's time slips made this book late, but BATMAN INC will fix the continuum and the economy next week! See how he came back to be in Batman & Robin 16! #2 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 648 DAN SLOTT! NO LONGER THREE TIMES A WEEK![...]