![]() More recently, Morrison co-created and wrote the Netflix original series ‘Happy!’ and wrote and produced the television series Brave New World. Morrison became the editor-in-chief of sci-fi and fantasy magazine ‘Heavy Metal’, and relaunched Green Lantern with Liam Sharp. In 2011, Morrison was handpicked by DC editorial to lead the Superman character in the New 52 revamp, as well as finish their Batman run with ‘Batman: Inc’ and later, ‘Multiversity’. Morrison returned to Vertigo for ‘Joe the Barbarian’, wrote an “analysis of superheroes and comics”, ‘Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero’ and was the subject of the feature length documentary ‘Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods’. Morrison introduced Damian Wayne and made huge, long lasting changes to Batman and greater DC lore. ![]() In the late 2000s and 2010s, Morrison their magnum opus, their seven year long Batman epic arc, interwoven with Morrison’s own ‘Final Crisis’. Grant Morrison and, by this point, frequent collaborator Frank Quitely, worked together on Robbie Williams’ album Intensive Care, designing the full packaging and art. Morrison co-wrote the follow up to Infinite Crisis, ’52’, and the 12 issue Eisner Award winning maxiseries ‘All Star Superman’. By the mid 2000s, Morrison had left Marvel vowing to “never work for them again”, and wrote the debut story in ‘JLA Classified’, and the 30 issue long series ‘Seven Soldiers’. It was during this time Morrison added to their Vertigo bibliography with ‘We3’, ‘The Filth’, Seaguy and Vimanarama. To this day, ‘New X-Men’ stands as one of the most influential runs on the X-Men franchise and has long been remembered for its critical changes and new characters brought to the franchise. Under Marvel, Morrison wrote the hugely successful and critically acclaimed ‘New X-Men’, as well as ‘Marvel Boy’ and ‘Fantastic Four: 1234’. In the 2000s, Morrison moved to Marvel Comics after writing the graphic novel ‘JLA: Earth 2’. Millar relaunched JLA for a modern audience, and teamed up with fellow Scot writer Mark Millar for the maxiseries ‘JLA: Aztek’, a handful of issues of ‘Swamp Thing’ and ‘The Flash’. Under Vertigo, Morrison wrote a follow-up to their Doom Patrol run, ‘Flex Mentallo’, as well as creator owned short stories ‘Sebastian O’, ‘The Mystery Play’ and ‘Kill Your Boyfriend’, as well as the hugely popular abstract “mind fuck” ‘The Invisibles’ (which heavily influenced The Matrix). In 1993 DC Comics launched Vertigo, an exciting new imprint consisting of ‘mature themed’ DC content and creator-owned material. Grant Morrison then revamped Kid Eternity for DC, all the while working on British comics such as Dan Dare and the controversial ‘Bible John-A Forensic Meditation’. Into the 90s, Morrison followed up on ‘Arkham Asylum’ with a prequel of sorts, ‘Gothic’, in early issues of the Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight anthology series. ‘Arkham Asylum’ sold nearly 300,000 copies upon its initial release, sparking a renewed interest in Batman in comics, alongside the then recently released Tim Burton flick. Impressing DC Comics with Animal Man, Morrison was asked to take over writing duties on Doom Patrol in 1989, and possibly their most important work, the graphic novel, ‘Batman Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth’. The ‘British Invasion’ featured hot talent such as the aforementioned Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, as well as Neil Gaiman, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Peter Mulligan, Alan Davis, Alan Grant, John Wagner, Cam Kennedy and into the 90s included Frank Quitely, Bryan Hitch, Steve Dillon, Barry Windsor-Smith, Mark Millar and many others. Morrison was quickly added to the ever growing list of talent colloquially known as the ‘British Invasion’, a group of British artists and writers that were being picked up by American publishers, started with Alan Moore on Swamp Thing. ![]() After 1987’s Zenithįor 2000AD, Morrison really caught the attention of DC Comics and landed the gig of an Animal Man ongoing. They have been active since the mid 80s, when they mostly wrote for Marvel UK, Doctor Who Magazine, 2000AD and British annuals for DC. Grant Morrison is one of the most sought after and accomplished writers in the business. Grant Morrison being non-binary, though, is huge. In recent months, DC have confirmed The Flash will be genderfluid going forward, which didn’t exactly make a splash in the news. Scottish author, playwright and television series producer Grant Morrison MBE has, in the last few weeks, come out as non-binary. ![]()
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