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Grant Morrison working on book with Disinfo founder

 
 
klint
21:22 / 24.12.02
From today's Disinfo e-newsletter: "Richard Metzger is collaborating with Grant Morrison on a book project: we can't wait to see what arcane truths are in their grimoire." I wonder if this is in place of the no-longer spoken ov collaboration between Morrison, Douglas Rushkoff, and Genesis P. Orridge.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:56 / 24.12.02
Surely that should be "THEE no-longer spoken ov collaboration etc..."
 
 
klint
01:47 / 25.12.02
Yeah, you got me there.
 
 
Tamayyurt
03:07 / 25.12.02
What about his novel, IF?
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
05:28 / 25.12.02
What about the book he was going to write about his experiences while writing Invisibles? i waaant it!!
 
 
Optimistic
12:31 / 25.12.02
Yeah, this is a good point.

Where the fuck are these books?

"THE IF" especially. There's been an excerpt of it on his site for ages (Mind you EVERYTHING has been up there for ages...) but I haven't heard of anything since INVSIBLES Vol. 3 Number 1.

And I want it.

He's a bastard for giving us these tiny snippets and then saying nothing.

In fact, now that I think of it, I seen to remember a report that once he was finished with the JLA he was going to quit comics for a while to work on the novel. It was in COMICS INTERNATIONAL if I remember rightly, must have been about issue 100 or so, not sure. Anyway, they said something like "To work on his novel FOR PENGUIN BOOKS", if indeed it was PENGUIN, I could be wrong.

Anyway, the point of all this is to say that i'm almost sure he must have had an advance from them so we should see it some time.

Mind you, like the other books you've already mentioned THE IF may well be dead, collecting dust on a shelf or lost in depths of his hard-drive...

Bastard...

I WANT THEM ALL TOO.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
21:55 / 25.12.02
The time for The IF has probably been and gone......

but The International Front?

I'd say Quentin Quire would make a great leader of such an organisation.
 
 
Seth
22:40 / 25.12.02
I'm amazed that anyone's interested in The IF after reading that excerpt.
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
23:17 / 25.12.02
Has anyone ever written a novel called FOR PENGUIN BOOKS? If not, I got dibs.
 
 
The Falcon
23:44 / 25.12.02
The excerpt was a laugh. Not classically-great prose by any means, yeah.
 
 
A
04:10 / 26.12.02
Apparently Penguin dropped IF, according to an interview with Morrison from i-can't-remember-where. I believe he's still writing it, thoguh, in theory
 
 
penitentvandal
10:50 / 26.12.02
BB - You can have For Penguin Books (extra points if someone other than Penguin publishes it) as long as I get dibs on Just for the Advance...
 
 
The Photographer in Blowup
20:48 / 26.12.02
What was his book The If about?
 
 
arcboi
21:13 / 26.12.02
Are the film rights for For Penguin Books still available? I see this as a potential blockbuster...
 
 
iconoplast
21:32 / 26.12.02
I couldn't find the except on his website. I will say that he writes for TV well, though - the Invisibles TV scripts made me realize that the invisibles doesn't really have to be all deep and mysterious. That you could cut out most of what I love about it, and still turn it into a fun PoMo take on 60s spy shows.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
21:58 / 26.12.02
Grant starts all kinds of projects that we never see. Like this little number (I'm really surprised that no one ever discusses it here)...

Hey, wow. This is my 1000th post in this suit. Huzzah for me!
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
22:27 / 26.12.02
it's certainly been mentioned once or twice, but there's not much to discuss there really is there?

until further notice at least.
 
 
klint
16:45 / 27.12.02
Bizarre Boys was mentioned in Morrison's latest column:

"Snapped out of it momentarily. Pete Milligan (writer of X-STATIX, THE ENIGMA, SKREEMER and many, many other fine comic books) is here to cheer me up. Once inseparable on the global booze 'n' convention circuit, this is the first time we've met in seven years. Our conversation resumes as though barely interrupted. A return to the BIZARRE BOYS is discussed, the legendary, sinister and mind-devouring hypersigil project we started and were to afraid to complete ten years ago on the Ramblas in Barcelona. Pete brings whiskey to the room. We can't get a joint to light. There¹s no oxygen in here. The hotels pump soul-corroding mists through the air conditioning, synthesized in  nightmarish subterranean labs. "Thanks for the hospitality..." Milligan sneers and goes to the baseball match. Car lights transform the Coronado bridge into a diamante tiara. And then they don¹t anymore."
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
17:01 / 27.12.02
Well, isn't that a coincidence. Interesting...

Must be that straight-edge pot and whiskey Our Grant is imbibing...
 
 
The Falcon
23:20 / 27.12.02
"Smoking's like violence. I hate it; I really really do. It makes me feel quite...dirty."
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
09:43 / 28.12.02
duncan - you're posts just get better and better!

do you think gm's trying to draw a (spunky) line under the notion that all creation is just masturbation?

and anyway, maybe gm was simply lighting the joint for his pal pete.

least a friend kindo.
 
  
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