Grant Morrison

ALL OF THIS INFORMATION AND MORE CAN BE FOUND AT GRANTMORRISON.COM Grant Morrison is highly-regarded as one of the most original and inventive writers in the comics medium. His revisionist Batman book ARKHAM ASYLUM (with artist Dave McKean) has sold 500,000 copies worldwide and won numerous awards, making it the most successful original graphic novel to be published in America. The book has recently been re-issued in a special 15th Anniversary edition to critical acclaim.Grant Morrison has worked in the comics industry for 26 years and is regarded as one of the most imaginative storytellers in the business. He has been recognised as one of the top writers in the industry for more than 15 years and is spear-heading 2 major projects being released by DC Comics in 2005, ‘The 12 Labors of Superman’ and the 30 part mega-series, ‘Seven Soldiers’. He is also currently under contract with DC as a Consultant with the specific remit of re-vamping old characters and recreating them as usable franchises for other writers.He has contributed groundbreaking and best-selling runs of popular stories for the major companies including DC Comics characters; JLA, DOOM PATROL, ANIMAL MAN and for Marvel Comics the best-selling monthly, NEW X-MEN and FANTASTIC FOUR.In addition he has created a number of revolutionary original series including, THE INVISIBLES, THE FILTH, ZENITH, SEBASTIAN O, MARVEL BOY, and the cult classics KILL YOUR BOYFRIEND, THE MYSTERY PLAY and SEAGUY.WE3, a 3 part series for DC/Vertigo, currently being published, has been widely acknowledged as the most formally innovative comic series seen in years and is already winning awards prior to its completion. WE3 is currently under consideration for adaptation into film.His Graphic Novels and Comic Book collections have been translated into 13 languages and are sold worldwide.Often courting controversy, many titles have made headlines; ST.SWITHIN'S DAY - a story about a young man from the North attempting to assassinate Margaret Thatcher - had questions raised in the House of Commons, as did THE INVISIBLES, Morrison's highly-influential six-year long series about a group of occult terrorists (which went on to partly inspire the film THE MATRIX). Seen as cutting-edge and subversive, THE INVISIBLES and other series, like THE NEW ADVENTURES OF HITLER and BIG DAVE (with Mark Millar), have been the subject of both academic discussion and popular media interest.In July 1997, he was the first comic book writer to be included as one of Entertainment Weekly's top 100 creative people in America.Morrison is also the author of two stage plays Red King Rising’ and ‘Depravity’, which, between them, won a Fringe First Award, the Independent Theatre Award for 1989 and the Evening Standard Award for new drama at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.He has written a number of short stories for popular anthologies including the Hot Blood series and Penguin Books Disco 2000. ‘LOVELY BISCUITS’ a retrospective collection of short stories and theatre scripts was released in 1999 by Oneiros Books. His travel writing also appears in Penguin's ‘Fortune Hotel’ anthology and he has contributed to the architecture book, 'Malaparte: A House Like Me'.His many articles and features written for the press and television include the semi-regular media satire column ‘The Smell of Reason’ in Sleaze Nation magazine, pieces for the Glasgow Herald and the Evening Standard, as well as ambient erotic prose for the fetish magazine SKIN TWO.His artwork featured in the CCA Gallery exhibition ‘Slipstream’ in 1998.His life and work has already been the subject of five separate television documentaries and he is a regular guest on TV and radio.Over the last few years, Grant’s work has expanded into other media, including video games, with stories for Battlestar Galactica and the upcoming Predator: Concrete Jungle, both by Vivendi, and motion pictures. His first screenplay, Sleepless Knights in production at Dreamworks SKG. Other projects in the pipeline include writing a new JLA Dark Ride for Six Flags.Morrison, a practising Chaos magician since 1979, has travelled extensively and played with various bands. He still writes and records music and stages semi-regular DJ happenings under the aegis of The Beastocracy in Glasgow and London.In 2002, Morrison and his partner Kristan launched gmWORD Ltd. to specialise in 'memetic engineering' and develop Morrison’s successful role as a charismatic business consultant and public speaker. An increasingly prominent ‘counterculture’ spokesman (participant in the Unified Fields series of world summits at the Aspen Institute, as well as Disinformation Company seminars and workshops in Manhattan, Los Angeles and the Omega Institute, and as part of Creative Entrepreneurs Club), Morrison is now moving into the area of scientific and artistic collaborations with world-renowned specialists.Barely educated at Mosspark Primary and Allan Glen's School for Boys, he lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.Grant Morrison is represented by JON LEVIN at CAA.