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I couldn't even begin to comprehend what the MorrisonCon convention was going to be like There hadn't been much information posted; just a list of A-List comics talent, a breakdown of the panels, and the promise of partying Which meant all I could focus on (when I wasn't having a heart attack from the gusts[...]

I decided to make arrangements to leave from the 28th to the 30th of September, dates of the convention. That being said, Morrisoncon doesn't really fit your definition of a convention Nothing to sell, nothing to promote and with a focus on about a dozen creators, in a very intimate setting, able to welcome 500 to[...]

Lindsey Steffes writes for Bleeding Cool To read Part One, click here. To read Part Two, click here. "The Sound of the Atom Splitting," hosted by the entertaining British musician, Akira the Don, happened to be the highlight of MorrisonCon This panel, which focused on the ways that comics and music inform each other, featuredGerard Way, Jimmy Urine,[...]

Lindsey Steffes writes for Bleeding Cool To read Part One, click here. As an aspiring comic writer, MorrisonCon's "Writers on Writing" panel was a great opportunity to hear from the best in the business Grant Morrison, Robert Kirkman, Jonathan Hickman, Jason Aaron, and J.H Williams III discussed everything from approaches to writing to creative direction, giving the[...]

Lindsey Steffes writes for Bleeding Cool If you missed MorrisonCon, you missed a weekend of rock star panels, intimate one-on-one's, and mind-bending performances, as promised MorrisonCon, curated by Grant Morrison and Ignition Sequence, was held September 28th-30th at the Hard Rock Hotel inLas Vegas, featuring a small but impressive guest list, including Grant Morrison, Robert Kirkman,[...]

Akira The Don performed at MorrisonCon This is the final day of his story. I woke up a few hours later still drunk, immobile beneath the weight of a Galactean and only just emerging hangover Vegas sunshine poured over me quite torrentially, like twin Niagras from two of the room's four walls I felt pinned to[...]

Rob Bass writes, with an ending to Saturday's tale… EPILOGUE: One could make the argument that, for me and me alone, MorrisonCon ends there That is certainly the climax of my wildest hopes and dreams for the experience But it's only 8:00 on Saturday night and my flight doesn't leave for another twenty-four hours And there[...]

Rob Bass' Friday at Morrisoncon was here But this is last Saturday. I'm up at nine, showered and out the door fifteen minutes later The coffeeshop line for smoothies is insane but there's no one at the bar, a Bloody Mary breakfast it is Fourteen dollars, with tip I make my way into the hall and[...]

He made a trailer for MorrisonCon Weekly comic reviews are here Hit him up at gringohypothetical@gmail.com with criticism and/or delight. Saturday and Sunday to run over the weekend… IT BEGINS with the DJ blasting "Pull Shapes" by The Pipettes, which will forever remind me of Penny and how we can transcend ourselves through dancing, music, stories, whatever[...]

Stace Inveigus writes for Bleeding Cool; The Hard Rock Hotel hosting MorrisonCon last weekend, has a tattoo parlour onsite, conveniently one lob of a beer bottle from the convention hall. And one bottle of beer was about all it took. Which is why plenty of young folk were getting pople to draw on their bodies the past weekend,[...]

Kickstarter king Shawn Demumbrum skipped out of Las Vegas Comic Con to see what all the fuss was over at the Hard Rock last weekend… I arrived early for MorrisonCon to pick up my press pass and was joined by a small group of excited fans The energy was palpable The first thing that[...]

Grant Morrison mentioned this before MorrisonCon; Well they wanted, they had this big idea, they said we want Frank Quitely to come on and design an entire universe." he laughs "I went, what the fuck?! You've gotta be joking! And then I told them about this thing… he draws these grotesques, these anatomical creatures who've got[...]

Akira The Don performed this weekend at MorrisonCon Tweet at him here. Photos by Christopher Neseman and Akira The Don Waking up at an ungodly hour on Saturday morning, partly because of the jetlag, partly because I'd neglected to draw the twin curtains of the vast expanses of glass that ramed my half-panaoramic Vegas hotel suite and was drowning[...]

More MorrisonCon videos are starting to spill out, including thee from the Sound Of The Atom Splitting panel. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_KXAlOnSio[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1fCRnJ9xpA[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtCjgwlhuYA[/youtube] And the likes of Jim Lee, JH Williams, Frank Quitely and Chris Burnham sketching; [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=858iAXlUJNo[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb42DzEX_Ro[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEwEdpP8tU[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6gy5spSeb4[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iLEXQaEeuE[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh_2u3ZcOk8[/youtube] [...]

  Akira The Don performed at MorrisonCon This is what happened to him on his first day… Friday couldn't have been anymore herculean and glorious had it been on a hoverboard. In the morning I did some work in bed, posing the journey to Vegas' photos and readying some of my DJ set[...]

Thomas Allard went to MorrisonCon But didn't have any wifi…  he writes; Unfortunately since I didn't have internet in the hall, it was a bit tough to send things so most of the things I thought to send you, you already got, but here are a few things here and there that I caught and while[...]

    Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool; MorrisonCon wasn't for everyone In fact, 98% regular con fans might have walked away saying, 'what the heck was that?'  However, I thought it was the right recipe and look forward to a return to the Hard Rock next year for this amazing experience. This wasn't even a con, in[...]

The Question Joins Pax Americana And More At MorrisonCon 8 Highly Circumstantial Evidence Employed In "Gina Carano Is Wonder Woman In Man Of Steel" Case 9 Scott Lobdell Introduces Oracle To The New 52 In Superman #0 10 How Dreamworks Are Doing The Hand-Drawn Shadows For Me And My Shadow Another strong week at Bleeding Cool, with a[...]

Here are fifteen pieces of vital comics information, imparted by Bleeding Cool's TJ McDonald and Schedel Luitjen from MorrisonCon A signed table from attendeed And a post-coital Thor by Chris Burnham… There will be 10 new pages in Absolute Final Crisis, a huge battle scene formerly cut New Final Crisis pages feature "Captain Carrot fighting zombies"[...]

Shawn Demumbrum writes from Bleeding Cool; Last night, I started to write "MorrisonCon is rock n' roll (not the pedestrian rock and roll)  It's as Ralphie from The Christmas Story says 'The soft light of electric sex'. After spending half a day at the convention and being asked to describe what it was to my curious creator[...]

At their live drawing panels at MorrisonCon, Frank Quitely draws Fat Superman for Bleeding Cool's Schedel Luitjen… and then Jim LEe speed-draws the Joker It's almost as if you were there… At their live drawing panels at MorrisonCon, Frank Quitely draws Fat Superman for Bleeding Cool's Schedel Luitjen… and then Jim LEe speed-draws the[...]

TJ McDonald is keeping Bleeding Cool informed from MorrisonCon. Just as in Watchmen, the cover to Pax Americana (DC, with Frank Quitely, out next year) is the first panel of the issue's story "Great watchmen reference here" "The Question will be back in Grant Morrison's Pax Americana" "Multiversity is ready, but Grant is waiting for Frank Quitely[...]

Last night Gerard Way and Grant Morrison performed at MorrisonCon Here's a brief video snippet… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx7yUR53v8A[/youtube] Schedel Luitjen reported on the event for Bleeding Cool; Okay, the 9 pm performance (which was more like 10, but that is to be expected) was a pretty spectacular word throw-down that, at times, reminded me a bit of slam poetry, but[...]

Are you going to MorrisonCon in Las Vegas this weekend? Bleeding Cool was meant to have some people on the ground, but the organisers suddenly stopped getting back to us a month or two ago… But that's okay, that's what Twitter and Instagram are for! And a look at the MorrisonCon swag that attendees are picking[...]

The Las Vegas Comic Expo was to have taken place at the end of the month at the Alexis Park Resort, directly opposite where MorrisonCon was taking place It is the closest two simultaneous and rival comic conventions have ever been held. But sadly, that is no longer to be Flash flooding has damaged the hotel[...]

Two comic conventions. The first is MorrisonCon, at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. The second is Las Vegas Comics Expo Also in Las Vegas At Alexis Park All-Suite Resort, which is described in its very address as being opposite the Hard Rock. MorrisonCon costs $500 for three days, Las Vegas Comics Expo is $40 for two[...]

But, as it was the previous year, by the time the actual show rolled out, there were many female guests at the show. While Mark Millar took a lot of flak for that, his previous colleague and now sworn nemesis Grant Morrison also has his own comic convention, in Las Vegas, MorrisonCon. Robert Kirkman, Darick Robertson, Jason[...]

If you have the We3-related password from the mailing list, you can book tickets for MorrisonCon right now For $767 For one night For one For one two of you, that's $1193.93 Or if you want to skip the hotel, $523.92. Already people are balking at the price. @MorrisonCon Your ticket prices are insane and make me[...]

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[...]

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? [...]