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jlroberson (jlroberson) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-19 17:05:00

Current location:	Seattle
Current mood:	evil
Current music:	Robert Wyatt, "'Round Midnight"
Entry tags:	creator: grant morrison, theme: blackmail, title: near myths

Time To Embarrass Grant Morrison

From NEAR MYTHS #2, a reason nobody should ever feel badly about their early work. Whenever I look at an early page and wince, I think: well, at least it wasn't as bad as GRANT MORRISON's early work. An excerpt from a 5-pager, though if I can I'll post the other two; I'm unsure so let me know. Ladies and gentlemen, from 1978, written AND drawn by Glaswegian comics megasexystar Grant Morrison, "Time is a Four-Letter Word."
Morrison, by the way, has claimed he wasn't yet on drugs at this time.

Note the date on the calendar.

I have more NEAR MYTHS(just his stuff) scans, by the way, unless the ransom of my weight in gold--which isn't that much; I mean really--is paid,* I may post bits of them too! This includes the first appearance of Gideon Stargrave, leading me to believe that, between Morrison and Talbot, NEAR MYTHS would not exist but for Jerry Cornelius books. Oh, to prove the graveness of my threats, here's the, er..."cover."(click image to embiggen)

*In English this is called a "joke."
All artwork and story(except cover) (c)1978 Grant Morrison.

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	volksjager 2009-07-20 01:04 am UTC (link)
	Wow, I never knew Morrison could draw. Well I suppose all boys have to have their messogenistic period before they get laid. I totally agree with you about Jerry Cornelius . GM makes tons of references to him and Moorcock in The Invisbles. Why do you think there hasn't been any interest in any of the Cornelius books being made into films or TV shows ? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-07-20 01:41 am UTC (link)
	Wow, I never knew Morrison could draw. Couple years ago, DC published a new version of his Arkham Asylum: A Serious House One Serious Earth, including annotations and thumbnails of the rough draft. Those thumbnails were by Morrison. They included a "deleted scene" of Robin at the police station. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-20 01:47 am UTC (link)
	He also often does the designs for his characters. SEVEN SOLDIERS has a section of those. Almost all the final versions deviate, but in a number of cases his were the better ones. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-07-20 02:08 am UTC (link)
	wow, I had no idea. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ex_stig213
2009-07-20 06:01 am UTC (link)

It's seen as a given among creators that Grant will give you a sketch of his ideas as well as a script. See also Final Crisis' Orrery of Worlds, NXM: Here Comes Tomorrow's storyboards, and the cover to Batman #666 as well as many others. Reportedly, Batman RIP started at a design level with a Morrison sketch of that cover with Batman's face being ripped in half by a sunshiney love scene, later reproduced by Alex Ross.

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	btravage.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 02:34 am UTC (link)
	misogynistic? (Reply to this) (Parent)

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