43 Facts About Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison's best known DC work is the seven-year Batman storyline which started in the Batman ongoing series and continued through Final Crisis, Batman and Robin, Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne and two volumes of Batman Incorporated.

Grant Morrison's creator-owned work, the bulk of which was published through DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, includes Flex Mentallo and We3 with Scottish artist Frank Quitely, Seaguy with artist Cameron Stewart, The Filth with Chris Weston, and the three-volume series The Invisibles.

At Marvel, Grant Morrison wrote a three-year run on New X-Men and created Marvel Boy for the publisher's Marvel Knights imprint.

Between 2016 and 2018, Grant Morrison served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Heavy Metal magazine.

In 2012, Grant Morrison was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to film and literature.

Grant Morrison spent much of the early 1980s touring and recording with their band The Mixers, occasionally writing Starblazer for DC Thomson and contributing to various UK indie titles.

In 1982, Grant Morrison submitted a proposal involving the Justice League of America and Jack Kirby's New Gods entitled Second Coming to DC Comics, but it was not commissioned.

Grant Morrison's first continuing serial began in 2000 AD in 1987, when they and Steve Yeowell created Zenith.

The early 1990s saw Grant Morrison revamping Kid Eternity for DC with artist Duncan Fegredo, and Dan Dare, with artist Rian Hughes.

Grant Morrison coloured Dare's bright future with Thatcherism in Fleetway's Revolver.

In 1991 Grant Morrison wrote Bible John-A Forensic Meditation for Fleetway's Crisis, based on an analysis of possible motivations for the crimes of the serial killer Bible John.

Grant Morrison wrote Judge Dredd and Really and Truly, and co-wrote the controversial Big Dave with Millar.

DC Comics launched its Vertigo imprint in 1993, publishing several of Grant Morrison's creator-owned projects, such as the steampunk mini-series Sebastian O and the graphic novel The Mystery Play.

In 1996 Grant Morrison wrote Flex Mentallo, a Doom Patrol spin-off with art by Frank Quitely, and returned briefly to DC Universe superheroics with the short-lived Aztek, co-written with Mark Millar.

In 1996, Grant Morrison was given the Justice League of America to revamp as JLA, a comic book that gathered the "Big Seven" superheroes of the DC universe into one team.

Grant Morrison wrote several issues of The Flash with Mark Millar, as well as DC's crossover event of 1998, the four-issue mini-series DC One Million, in addition to plotting many of the multiple crossovers.

In 1998 Grant Morrison published the prose piece "I'm A Policeman" in Sarah Champion's millennial short story collection Disco 2000; though no explicit connection to The Invisibles is made, there are strong thematic links between the two works.

At DisinfoCon in 1999, Grant Morrison said that much of the content in The Invisibles was information given to them by aliens that abducted them in Kathmandu, who told them to spread this information to the world via a comic book.

Grant Morrison was immediately struck by the similarities to their own work upon first seeing the film.

In 2002, Grant Morrison launched their next creator-owned project at Vertigo: The Filth, drawn by Chris Weston and Gary Erskine, a 13-part mini-series.

That same year, Grant Morrison sold the screenplay Sleepless Knights to DreamWorks with Guillermo del Toro attached to direct.

Around the same time, Grant Morrison was working on the script for the sequel to the Marvel Boy mini-series, but the project ultimately failed to materialize.

Grant Morrison returned to the JLA with the first story in a new anthology series, JLA Classified.

In 2005 Grant Morrison wrote Seven Soldiers, which featured the Manhattan Guardian, Mister Miracle, Klarion the Witch Boy, Bulleteer, Frankenstein, Zatanna and Shining Knight.

Grant Morrison was one of the writers on 52, a year-long weekly comic book series that started in May 2006 and concluded in May 2007.

Grant Morrison provided outline story and script work for two video games, Battlestar Galactica and Predator: Concrete Jungle, both by Vivendi Universal.

In 2006, New Line Cinema optioned We3 as a film project with Grant Morrison attached as screenwriter.

That same year, Grant Morrison began writing Batman for DC with issue No 655, reintroducing the character of Damian Wayne and signalling the beginning of a seven-year-long run on the character across multiple titles.

At the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, DC Comics announced that Morrison would write Final Crisis, a seven-issue mini-series slated to appear in 2008 with J G Jones handling the art.

Grant Morrison announced that 2008 would see publication of the follow-up to 2004's Seaguy called Seaguy 2: The Slaves of Mickey Eye, the second part of a planned three part series.

Grant Morrison returned to creator-owned work in 2010 with the eight issue Vertigo series Joe the Barbarian, launched in January with artist Sean Murphy.

Originally a six issue series, Grant Morrison felt that the story would benefit from an extra two issues.

In June 2011, as part of DC Comics' massive revamp of its entire superhero line, Grant Morrison was announced as the writer on the new Action Comics No 1, teaming with artist Rags Morales, marking Grant Morrison's return to the Superman character after the end of All Star Superman.

Grant Morrison has written a screenplay for a film entitled Sinatoro.

Grant Morrison was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to film and literature.

In September 2014, as part of Legendary Comics' big foray into the industry, Grant Morrison launched another key creator-owned book: Annihilator with Frazer Iving.

In 2016, Grant Morrison became editor-in-chief of the science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, Heavy Metal for 2 years, lasting up to 2018.

Grant Morrison penned several editorials for the magazine during this period, whilst writing occasional prose stories for Ahoy Comics' backups.

Grant Morrison co-created and worked as a writer and producer on the 2020 TV series Brave New World for the Peacock Streaming Service, having developed it for adaptation.

In March 2021 it was announced that Grant Morrison would write a four issue series entitled Superman and the Authority, illustrated by artist Mikel Janin to be published by DC in late 2021.

Later that year, Grant Morrison published their first fiction novel, entitled Luda.

Grant Morrison first appeared as a comics character in cameos in Animal Man Nos.

In Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier, Grant Morrison was the physical model for Captain Cold.