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Jonathon Ross to interview Grant Morrison

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Dan Fish - @Fish1k

19:23 / 19.07.04

Press Release: Jonathan Ross / Grant Morrison at Comic Festival

JONATHAN ROSS TO INTERVIEW GRANT MORRISON AT
LONDON COMIC FESTIVAL

Having made a brief but fleeting appearance at the first event last
year, when he and his son Kirby went round the dealers hall
buying something from virtually every self-publisher's table,
Jonathan Ross has agreed to make a formal appearance at the
second London Comic Festival on October 23rd.

Jonathan will be interviewing Grant Morrison, making his first
Comic Festival appearance since 2002, asking questions set by
you the readers.

Simply email your question to Grant Morrison, free via
comicfestival.co.uk, and Grant promises to try and answer as
many as he can live on stage.

Other highlights of the London Comic Festival include
appearances from DC's Editorial director Dan DiDio, who will be
looking at your portfolios, and Powers creator Mike Avon Oeming.
Publishers in attendance include Tokyopop, Titan, and the
Dandy & Beano, with a raft of 2000AD creators, every small
press publisher in the country, and a presentation by our very
own Dez Skinn on the subject of Comix - The Underground
Revolution.

Tickets are just £5 in advance (£10 including the Grant Morrison
interview) from comicfestival.co.uk

-end of story-

All the best

Kev F Sutherland - 01275 872111
Producer and publicist
LONDON COMIC FESTIVAL
Oct 23 2004
http://comicfestival.co.uk
New email: kevf@comicfestival.co.uk

After the false rumours surrounding the Bristol event, it looks like GM actually has been confirmed this time.

20:11 / 19.07.04

This is cool, but are we supposed to know who Jonathan Ross is?

The Natural Way

20:19 / 19.07.04

If yr british, then yes.

But it doesn't matter if yr american and you don't know.

20:31 / 19.07.04

Jon Ross actually came to the last London event with his son - walked around seeing what everyone was publishing and buying stuff for his kids.

21:58 / 19.07.04

Hmm. Sleaze, when you say " stuff... "

22:12 / 19.07.04

He picked up a copy of Louis: Red Letter Day from those fine folks at Metaphrog and so should you - Its 1984 for kids - funny sad and scarey all at once...

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

22:27 / 19.07.04

Yay! I've always been fond of ol' Ross...

Shit, I really should have picked that book up Bristol! I need to learn how to use my memory.

Are you omnipresent at comic festivals, sleaze?

22:41 / 19.07.04

Pretty much.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

22:51 / 19.07.04

Clearly you should have your own festival comic/guide/omnipresent action-adventure tale available at each event.

Uh, yes, anyway... what to ask George? Who's looking after his cats?

23:47 / 19.07.04

George, is Chubby actually Seaguy's penis?

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

05:52 / 20.07.04

For the benefit of the non-brits:

Jonathon Ross
On the Radio
Production Company

At the Festival last year

Go to http://www.comicfestival.co.uk/ and click events for (a little) more info

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:34 / 20.07.04

I hope he asks about the relevance of King Mob's raunchy romance with Ragged Robin, and whether it really was related to a real life relationship.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

08:09 / 20.07.04

I hope you're wearing the glasses and goofy grin that go with that new name.

09:06 / 20.07.04

Ooh, Flyboy, that's not the kind of thing I expect from you.

09:22 / 20.07.04

i'm always taking the piss out of her for fancying jonathan ross, she me for moz. we may go together. i'd avoid sitting in front of us unless you want a mucky jacket.

11:19 / 20.07.04

Flyboy... No More !

That was based on George's relationship with me.

There are some people on this board who would like to think otherwise, and I pity them honestly, those poor deluded souls, but it was based on his relationship with ME, all right ?

Though I do have to admit, all that stuff about being sent off into the future in a dodgy time machine rather hurt, at the time.

11:32 / 20.07.04

jonathan ross really looks like frankie howard in that pics

spooky

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10:16 / 21.07.04

Personally I think it would be better just to allow Ross to adopt his own interviewing style, rather than asking questions sent in by us...

'So, Gwant, you got mawwied wecently, I believe?'

'Och aye, that's right mon.'*

'Well, I'm not sure how to bweak this to you, but your wife may not be being entirely faithful to you.'

'Whut?'

'I'm not actually accusing Kwistin of adultewy, you understand, but she was definitely looking at me in a more than fwiendly way earlier, if you take my meaning...'

'Eh?'

'Gwant, your wife wants me. I can't put it any more simply than that.'

*for purposes of this joke, given that I am taking the piss out of Wossie's accent, Grant Morrison has been transformed into Groundskeeper Willie.

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

10:43 / 21.07.04

Jings!

Actually, Ross IS a master of accents, so maybe he will throw in a few "Hoot! Crivvens! HelpmaBoab!"'s into the conversation to put GM at ease.

I suspect the "submit your questions" thing is mainly to reduce work involved - TV interviews require researchers, etc.

13:55 / 22.07.04

My question got picked! I just recieved an email!

The Natural Way

14:38 / 22.07.04

Alright, I'll bite, what was yr farkin question?

15:27 / 22.07.04

I wasn't baiting, just surprised.

It was a fairly easy one, basically about NXM and his thoughts on conceptual and transpersonal value memes. I've been orating on how all the adversaries in NXM have been directly analogous to Spiral Dynamic value memes, and that Sublime and Phoenix correspond to the Coral and Teal levels -both of which have very little written about and aren't even considered potential human levels of consciousness. I wanted to know Grant's thoughts on that, firstly whether he designed the adversaries to be like that, how he generated completely conceptual values, and his thoughts on the read-between-the-lines message that "evolutionary stagnation" is the real ENEMY of all-that-is.

Hopefully it'll inspire another tirade into his personal mythology and thoughts on eschatology.

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

20:07 / 22.07.04

gesundheit.

Brigade du jour

23:16 / 22.07.04

I'm going to get him to ask Grant Morrison what his favourite colour is.

I reckon ... blue.

The Natural Way

16:44 / 23.07.04

Nice one, Chad. I think that question'll crack Ross up.

Maybe it'll lead to a massive fight between you and Ross!

Excellent!

16:51 / 23.07.04

I hope so.

13:29 / 18.08.04

I seem to remember that Ross was a bit of a Doom Patrol fan from way back...

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

06:05 / 29.09.04

An update from Kev:

Comic Festival updates

GRANT MORRISON QUESTIONS

Do we have any more questions you'd like to ask Grant Morrison at the Comic
Festival on October 23rd (to be put to him by Jonathan Ross)? Get them in
now if you have.

Detailed and arcane questions about recent titles are thin on the ground at
the moment. And no-one's given us any questions featuring any particularly
juicy scandal or libel. Please, don't hold back. The worst that could happen
is he gives you a rubbish answer.

Email questions to grant@comicfestival.co.uk
or you could fill in the little
form on the website, either way they end up on the same big pile.

Kev F Sutherland
Producer and publicist
LONDON COMIC FESTIVAL
Oct 23 2004
http://comicfestival.co.uk
New email: kevf@comicfestival.co.uk

08:21 / 29.09.04

I remember reading somewhere that King Mob's relationship with Ragged Robin was actually a hypersigil reflection of Grant Morrison's real life relationship with Spuggy from Byker Grove.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

09:30 / 29.09.04

Are you schizophrenic? ho ho.

09:52 / 29.09.04

tell us about the time you shit yerself in the airport.

17:21 / 30.09.04

>> I remember reading somewhere that King Mob's relationship with Ragged Robin was actually a hypersigil reflection of Grant Morrison's real life relationship with Spuggy from Byker Grove.

Is this totally a joke or what? I assume Byker Grove is a band, but I've never heard of them or Spuggy. Must be a London thing...

18:20 / 30.09.04

20:27 / 30.09.04

she looks like she's 13.

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

21:04 / 30.09.04

Byker Grove is (was) a kids drama, kind of like Degrassi Junior High I guess, set around a youth club in Newcastle, it ran during the late 80's, early 90's, and launched the career of several brit entertainers (Ant 'n' Dec, Donna Air, google should bring up plenty for those).

I guess Spuggy must have been a character in the show, not sure what the Morrison connection is though. I suspect it was a joke.

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