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Heads Up - Morrison Popimage Interview 2004

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Dan Fish - @Fish1k

16:24 / 07.07.04

Some GM related stuff at http://www.popimage.com/ for 7/7/04

http://www.popimage.com/content/grant2004.html

(also, his biographer HERE

eeoam

16:54 / 07.07.04

About time we had this years Big Glorious Grant Morrison Interview! His comics may not be what they once were, but his interviews are better than ever.

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

18:20 / 07.07.04

Some Thoughts:
Well, I won't be googling for his band anytime soon - I have a feeling 'Fuck Star' might bring up a few unsavoury results.

Interesting that he claims the 'Sex' issue of X-Men is all down to the artist - Naughty EVS!!

7 Soldiers looks good - Looking forward to all the DCU work, especially the stuff with Quitely.

I find the artistic collaborations really interesting - A few years back, I would have said Jimenez is the 'perfect' Morrison artist, he has a style not dis-similar to Morrison's own etchings. Nice to see the evolution (of sorts) to Quitely and Cameron Stewart.

Doug Rushkoff talks a little about his upcoming seminar with GM on his interview elswhere on the site.

Presumably the US TV version of Invisibles features a US cast - or at least I would expect 'Dane', as the POV character to be transplanted to the USA. Interesting.

Nice to see the wedding photos! Looking forward to all the new projects.

eeoam

19:14 / 07.07.04

I keep reading stuff by people insisting that there was no story, no plot, no characterization etc in the face of all evidence to the contrary. I'm utterly fucking baffled sometimes by the denial response to what seemed to me a very straightforward, funny, visually beautiful, inventive and direct piece of satire.

I feel I should speak up here because I'm one of the people GM's talking about. My main problem was and is that I didn't feel like I connected with the characters. Without good strong characters at the core there was nothing to hang onto to make sense or even make me want to make sense of the proceedings.
Nevertheless I am willing to keep an open mind - If you did 'get' the Filth can you tell us what those of us who didn't get it are missing?

LDones

21:31 / 07.07.04

eeoam: There've been some threads on that vey subject, I think, but everyone has different interpretations - there hasn't been quite as much consensus as with the Invisibles (with the 'lith, Grant, or otherwise).

I just 'got' it very recently, after thinking I had 'got' it before that. Start another Filth thread or dig an old one up and we can all have a go again.

Rawk'n'Roll

23:21 / 07.07.04

Lots of nice tidbits about Seven Soldiers, I didn't expect it to be such a grandiose epic.
Looks like there'll be plenty to talk about on the 'lith for quite some time.
Well done GM.

diz

00:54 / 08.07.04

my favorite part is quite possibly where he's asked about John Byrne's criticism of NXM and he responds by saying that the guy who created Doom Patrol thinks Grant's version is the one most faithful to his original vision.

seeing as how JB has just recently started his own version of DP* with the thinly-veiled intention of erasing GM's run and "getting back to basics," that's harsh as hell. kudos!

* please god, never let me mention John Byrne and "DP" in the same sentence. i want to burn these images from my brain with a hot poker.

Billuccho!

01:30 / 08.07.04

I absolutely love this guy's interviews. Always new and exciting in some way, and I find myself turning back to them constantly for inspiration in my own work.

Seven Soldiers sounds quite expansive. I'd love to buy it all, but that's highly improbable, so I'll most likely just check out a few good chunks of it.

And naturally, still looking forward to Vimanarama! and We3. And anything else the guy writes, ever.

Jack Denfeld

02:22 / 08.07.04

Grant on his Seven Soldiers project:
It’s 30 issues – including two double-sized bookends – which is almost three years of comics stories squeezed down into a one year-long microwave blast of pure adrenalin and intelligence. Hopefully it should provide a very diverse, unusual and absorbing read.
That's gonna be killer.

diz

02:44 / 08.07.04

when is Seven Soldiers coming out?

Krug

06:25 / 08.07.04

Reading this interview made me realise why I'm really on Barbelith.

I love this man.

Ganesh

07:35 / 08.07.04

He didn't mention me directly, but that's cool. In fact, it's what I asked of him.

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:25 / 08.07.04

"'Sigil' as a word is out of date.... [I]t's time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are 'special' people with special powers. It's not like that."

A secret message especially for you-know-who-you-are.

Interesting to see the confirmation that Morrison did have plans for NXM post-'Here Comes Tomorrow', which would have included going along with Marvel's decision to re-introduce more typically 'superhero' costumes. Kinda makes some of the more shrieking criticisms of Whedon's first issue seem a little foolish (like they already didn't seem foolish, eh?).

Really, really happy to read that there's a FOURTH Seaguy 3-parter planned "but I'd work with Cameron forever on this if the ideas keep coming. That's what we want to hear.

FinderWolf

18:22 / 08.07.04

Um, who is Don Lawrence? (I skipped the other posts in this thread cause I don't want to have the Grant interview 'spoiled' for me)

Someone connected with 2000 A.D., I guess?

Shit, Chris Weston really does look like Greg Feely in that pic of him and Mozz in the Weston interview!"

Thanks PopImage! Also, who drew the pic of Morrison that accompanies the interview on their main page? Looks like a Tony Harris or Brian Steelfreeze rendition of Grant.

diz

18:57 / 08.07.04

Really, really happy to read that there's a FOURTH Seaguy 3-parter planned "but I'd work with Cameron forever on this if the ideas keep coming. That's what we want to hear.

i was thrilled, too. he really seemed to have a lot of nice things to say about Cameron. i mean, he was practically foaming at the mouth about Quitely, and then basically said Cameron was in his league. i'm happy for him, and he deserves it. Seaguy looks amazing.

FinderWolf

19:15 / 08.07.04

He likes Waid's 'pseudo-Ultimatized' Superman?? I don't, it's just kind of okay and not much else. He thought Gail Simone's 'Rose and Thorn' was really good? I thought it was your average comic melodrama/psychodrama - although I love Simone's BIRDS OF PREY work.

now on to reading Part 2....

FinderWolf

19:19 / 08.07.04

>> "'Sigil' as a word is out of date

Awww, I like sigils! I don't think I'm Dr. Strange and I'm not all pretentious like the people Grant talks about, I just like sigils!! Is that so wrong??

(evoking TV drug commercial) "After all, I learned it from YOU, Dad!!"

Tamayyurt

19:39 / 08.07.04

He just said the word is out dated not the actual magical tool.

And I've been waiting for Pop Magic and IF so fucking long now....

CameronStewart

19:49 / 08.07.04

>>>Thanks PopImage! Also, who drew the pic of Morrison that accompanies the interview on their main page? Looks like a Tony Harris or Brian Steelfreeze rendition of Grant. <<<

That piece was actually done by a friend of mine, Kalman Andrasofszky, who drew DC's short-lived iCandy series.

FinderWolf

19:51 / 08.07.04

Oh my God, that's bizarre - I just refreshed this thread before I typed a new response and as the page was loading, I said to myself reading over my posts "you know, someone's going to say 'he just said the word was out of date, not the act of doing a sigil itself'". And then the page finished loading and there was Imp's post.

I was also being sort of jokingly histrionic about my post, I don't mean that Grant shattered my life forever by saying that

>> The POP Mag!ck book has a much more subjective, HUD view of the life and wanderings of the ah-dist to this date.

Does he mean HUD as in the Department of Housing and Urban Development? Do they have that in jolly old England? If so, I guess he means "practical" in using HUD as an adjective?

CameronStewart

19:52 / 08.07.04

And what a great interview, huh? All that stuff about how comics need to be the vanguard of cosmic creativity again, instead of illustrated movie pitches....right the fuck ON.

Also love the cheeky bit when he says that if he was rich he'd be sleeping in a hammock on a beach on the Indian ocean, and the photo that follows.

FinderWolf

19:53 / 08.07.04

>> That piece was actually done by a friend of mine, Kalman Andrasofszky, who drew DC's short-lived iCandy series.

Thanks, Cameron - before your post I saw the artist's name in the article (and they link to his site, which I'm gonna have to check out). That iCandy series didn't interest me at all (probably the plot/idea of the series as opposed to his art), but that is a beautiful illo. of Grant.

FinderWolf

19:59 / 08.07.04

>> Anyway, what about the Praeterhuman? He's surely the toughest of all of these rogue synonyms.

LOL!

Does he mean The Darkness the current hip band or the Marc Silvestri comic?

Who's Brendan McCarthy?

Haus of Mystery

20:05 / 08.07.04

What? Are you serious? BmcC is the unsung deity of comics - Gruppenfuhrer of the New Psychadelic Underground! Go and do your homework Wolfie. Until then stay RIGHT at the back of the class.

FinderWolf

20:11 / 08.07.04

>> The 'simple' Golden Age tale scored 78.25 for reading comprehension while ARKHAM ASYLUM came out ahead with 91.28 - as Meller says, 'ARKHAM ASYLUM is a lot more easily read than BATMAN VS. THE JOKER'.

Except that damn red lettering for the Joker when placed against blue/red/green backgrounds...

NOAM CHOMSKY is doing comics, but not for the big two? What/?? For Dark Horse or something???

Mario

22:25 / 08.07.04

I assumed HUD stood for "Heads-Up Display", like fighter-plane cockpits.

LDones

23:46 / 08.07.04

Mario beat me to it.

And yes, FW, its the band, not the Silvestri comic. I don't think George Morrison would compare Top Cow comics with the spirit of 70's rock.

Although...

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

23:56 / 08.07.04

And what a great interview, huh? All that stuff about how comics need to be the vanguard of cosmic creativity again, instead of illustrated movie pitches....right the fuck ON.

YES! I haven't even read the interview yet, but YES! I've been rambling on about that for weeks...

H3ct0r L1m4

05:53 / 09.07.04

Popimage also had a word with Craig McGill, who's writing Grant's bio. some interesting info on this project there, plus insights on Craig's work as both comics writer and journalist.

Gypsy Lantern

12:23 / 09.07.04

Oh no! Not my precious sigils! You mean George Morrison says their not cool anymore! But I thought they were like the hip new thing that all the cool post-modern chaos kids were doing! You mean actually they're a formulaic shortcut to creative engagement with magical processes? You mean I'm actually going to have to get out into the world and put a bit of effort and imagination into my magic, rather than just staying in my bedroom and knocking one out over a few squiggly lines! No! For the love of Flex Mentallo and Chubby da Choona, No! It's not -

Oh, it's the word sigil he was talking about. The actual method still works, George has just changed his mind about what it should be called. Blimey! I can't tell you how much of a relief that is. Why, I nearly spat my cup of cocoa out over the Disinformation Book of Lies.

grant

15:02 / 09.07.04

What was that "Yo momma" about? I mean, where did that come from?

Tamayyurt

15:10 / 09.07.04

That shit was funny though... it's the bit that actually made me laugh out loud.

The Falcon

15:11 / 09.07.04

There's one other wee rap-style catchphrase in there. Very odd.

Or: about time.

FinderWolf

15:14 / 09.07.04

Grant is responding to Byrne's insults and adds in for good measure that the creator of Doom Patrol loved his run. So the 'yo momma' is like a 'so there, how do you like them apples' thing, to finish off his response to Byrne.

And I did like that even as Byrne insults him, Grant still acknowledges that Byrne used to be a huge favorite of his. Me too - when Byrne was in his prime, he was truly great. Bendis has done this too (when Byrne insults him) he says "Hey man, I loved Byrne's early stuff and still do, it's just that now he's a raving lunatic."

FinderWolf

15:37 / 09.07.04

I'm very pscyhed for SEVEN SOLDIERS.

A Mr. Miracle who's not Scott Free? Hmmmm....

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