Tag: Grant Morrison

Last week I began my in-depth look at the history of Zenith and its attached legal dispute. As before I shall add my disclaimer:...

  Once upon a time there was a comic strip named Zenith. The creators created, the publishers published, but not a contract was there to...

The Edinburgh Book Festival, held annually in Scotland's capital city every August, is the biggest public book festival in the world. This year it...

Once more, I’ve dragged myself away from my usual obsessive witterings about Marvelman to write about another, different, long-lost British superhero. Right now, as...

At last weekend's C2E2 the Rebellion/2000 AD crowd was out and represented by marketing man about town Michael Molcher. Snapping a pic of him and his fellow boothworkers you could not help but notice that they were wearing T-shirs baring the logo of Zenith, which is, after Marvelman, perhaps the greatest "lost" superhero of UK comics. Created by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell, with original character designs by Brendan McCarthy , it first appeared in in 2000 AD #535 in August 1987, and ran for four story arcs, or ‘phases,’ which finished up in 2000 AD #805 in October 1992. It ran in about 80 issues of the comic; the first three phases were collected in five volumes by Titan Books between 1988 and 1990. Phase Four has never been reprinted.

Grant Morrison's run on Action Comics has been met with both high praise and no small measure of bewilderment. But this is a legendary...

Spider-Man is hands down one of the most popular characters ever to leap from the pages of Marvel Comics, and is even a strong...

(Spoilers!) Well, we can't say that we didn't know it was coming. From early on in the run, Grant Morrison has said in interviews...

The concluding issue of Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's Happy! has finally made its way to the shelves, and has seemingly divided critics right...

Via Millarworld -- in case you have been sleeping and missed Grant Morrison's thoughts on Alan Moore. We don't know the credits for this, but it's pretty awesome.

by Laura Sneddon--Over the last few weeks, my good friend Pádraig Ó Méalóid has been writing a series of articles about Alan Moore and Superfolks, which became an edgeways look at the long running friction between Moore and fellow writer, Grant Morrison. While Moore has previously spoken out about his thoughts on Morrison in various interviews, Morrison has generally kept quiet on the issue. There have been occasional barbs of course, and plenty of praise, but very little on the actual facts of the matter.

So, just to recap where we left off last time: it looks like Alan Moore has based all the big hits of his career on ideas he stole from Robert Mayer’s 1977 novel Superfolks. Various people, including Grant Morrison, Kurt Busiek, Lance Parkin, Joseph Gualtieri, and even Robert Mayer himself, have claimed at one point or another that Moore based a lot of his superhero work on various aspects of the book, specifically Marvelman, Watchmen, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, and his proposal to DC Comics for the unpublished cross-company ‘event,’ Twilight of the Superheroes. But is any of this true, or might there be another explanation? To answer that, I’m going to go through the individual allegations or suggestions, and deal them one by one, to see how they hold up.