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new grant morrison interview

yawn - thing's buddy

08:57 / 17.01.02

hello

i've been asked to do an interview with Mr. Morrison for a glasgow style mag(contradiction in terms?: fuck you) and I was wondering how to go about arranging it.

Y'see I met his sister a while back and she gave me his telephone number (she insisted that I should give him a ring from the pub we were in and get him out on the piss - so I rang him but as you can imagine he didn't bother his arse as 'he'd been drinking all day with Mark millar').

So, should I just ring him up? Or, if any of you have conducted an interview with him before, how did you sort it out?

also:

I was going to do a non-comic related interview feature: a sort of cultural trends and predictions - magic and technology convergence blurge.

what would you lot want to read?

Ganesh

08:57 / 17.01.02

Try needling him along "Alan Moore did it all before you, didn't he" lines until he snaps. Threaten to glass (or rape?) his cats.

Do you still have the dodgy 'tache, yawn?

yawn - thing's buddy

08:57 / 17.01.02

no. found myself on a beach in spain surrounded by french adoni with shaved heads and bronzed parts so decided to follow suit. so I am now clean shaven and crew cutted.

might grow it back for the interview and wear a mister six fiction suit tho...

yeah: I'm quite into doing a 'Ho Garden' on him. But he's usually laidback about that sort of thing. I went along to some art freakery evening one night hosted by Stewart Home and morrison and said to the man:

See Invisibles? It's just a fuckin gnostic watchmen.

See Mason - sfuckin ozymandias, innit.

and he just said, Oh, do think so. I always saw Mason as Bruce Wayne.

then I glassed his jaw.

uncle retrospective

08:57 / 17.01.02

Ask if he keeps making dodgy statments like the rape one to see how many people he can piss off. Ask how he measures the knee jerk reaction.

The Natural Way

10:09 / 17.01.02

Hmm...I would like to see how he responds to that one....

Yawn, u do realise yr posting style's almost identical to Glassonion (only a bit more pissed off)?

deja_vroom

10:18 / 17.01.02

ask him: "so, when are you getting a real job?"

yawn - thing's buddy

10:53 / 17.01.02

Sgunnice Runcheon 'n': glassonion? yes a favourite of mine. where is the little 'ponce'? has he been reintergrated? what about Dr. Packham? Stop it....Slow? Still sailing the seven seas? I lovem all. So does Ganesh.

much as I appreciate all the ideas, can I repeat:

So, should I just ring him up? Or, if any of you have conducted an interview with him before, how did you sort it out?

tar.

sleazenation

11:07 / 17.01.02

Yawn -- i really hate talking on the phone to someone i don't know really well

I have had to call Bryan Talbot up to arrange a time to go to his house and interview him, but i was kind of introduced to him first and we corresponded through e-mail first.

I also asked Grant if i could do an interview him when he came to that barbemeet way back when - he agreed and gave me his e-mail but the magazine i was going to do it for stopped publishing (and i stupidly didn't think of conducting it anyway and finding someone to sell it to/get to publish it later-- i didn't want to be a bother)

So basically what i'm saying is write a few questions you think would be interesting to have him answer call up the number and explain how you got it etc. and ask if he would like to meet up for an interview at some point and take it from there...

yawn - thing's buddy

11:24 / 17.01.02

sounds sensible sleaze. thank you.

The Natural Way

14:05 / 17.01.02

One of our number interviewed Grant not so long ago..... Antlerhead? And who was it that gotted him for Popimage? These are the guys yer a wantin' to talk to....

And Onion still posts. Sometimes. When he's bored.

He and Bruce? Lovely friends of mine....

Matthew Fluxington

15:21 / 17.01.02

Ask him why the X-Men have traded silly costumes for silly uniforms. Ask him why they don't have better fashion sense.

rizla mission

14:04 / 18.01.02

Ask him when his book's out.

H3ct0r L1m4

15:03 / 18.01.02

And how are the movie deals.

You know, ou very own Tom once interviewed him.

Marquis, he's a freelance writer. That's THE proper job.

yawn - thing's buddy

16:38 / 18.01.02

What I'll try and do is get the magazine interview done: talk about fashion, architecture, cities, sex, fictional reality and magic.

Then see if he's up for some sort of Barbelith interrogation.

I'd better fuckin deliver now, or, er... I'll glass my jaw.

the rake at the gates

12:53 / 19.01.02

ask him when hes going to do some more articles for pop magic, he never really got passed sigilisation.

Tamayyurt

14:41 / 19.01.02

ask him if we're ever going to see marvel boy 2.

Tom Coates

15:17 / 19.01.02

The most logical way to go about talking to Grant is to contact his management company, which I believe is London Management - it's based in Soho in London. They'll probably be able to arrange something for you.

yawn - thing's buddy

17:19 / 19.01.02

Tom - thats sounds good.

I'd like to be quite official about the interview rather than come across as a fuckin stalker or whatever.

The Sinister Haiku Bureau

02:03 / 20.01.02

Ask about the questions in the house of commons thing. As it says on his website: 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 recently-completed and
highly-influential six-year long series about a group of anarchist
terrorists. <italics mine>.
Now, St Swithin's day is pretty obvious- polititians generally don't like being assassinated. But the invisis? And it's come up here a couple of times, but nobody seems to have given an adequete explanation (unless I missed in, in which case, my apologies).

The Knowledge +1

11:13 / 20.01.02

Hit him over his bald head with a saucepan, then piss on his trousers.

Oh. Do you mind sending me the name of his management company someone? And, would it be awful strenous of you to ask him if he got the grenade lighter I sent him?

Cheers.

Was his sister cute?

his sister is indeed very pretty - petite blondle shoe designing ex chick of brendan mccarthy - s'all very incestuous. also if you want to see a cartoonified version of her, she appears as a blu/green spirit nymph in Rogan Gosh (revolver comic, then reprinted by vertigo I think. writer? - Milligan)

Good Antlerhead

20:41 / 21.01.02

My method of interviewing him was pretty simple: I went to the San Diego Comic Convention, sat in the front row at the X-Men panel he was speaking at, and then jumped up to talk to him when the panel ended. Just "popped the question" and he said he'd be happy to do the interview. We arranged a time and he showed up. The nicest celeb I've met.

Oh, and I was wearing a suit in a room of nacho-stained dungeonmasters. That might have helped.

Matthew Fluxington

09:48 / 22.01.02

Oh my goodness, this was YOU, Antlerhead?

That's probably my favorite Grant interview ever.

Good job, man.

H3ct0r L1m4

09:48 / 22.01.02

-- his sister is indeed very pretty - petite blondle shoe designing ex chick of brendan mccarthy - s'all very incestuous. also if you want to see a cartoonified version of her, she appears as a blu/green spirit nymph in Rogan Gosh (revolver comic, then reprinted by vertigo I think. writer? - Milligan)--

Funny, I was just reading that the other day. Brendam McCarthy! What the hell is he doing these days? Still in Hollywood?

And how did you happen to meet Grant's sister, just out of curiosity?

Why does Grant needs management at all? Movie script and book selling?

As for question from us here, Johnny had good one and the person who asked about his book. In that field, ask him if there'll be a reprint of LOVELY BISCUITS.

Ask him what he thinks Zeitgeist will be after 'low-fi' (for info read his 9/11 column at the website).

The Natural Way

09:48 / 22.01.02

I really am interested to know when his "little red book" is coming out. Onion asked Orridge about it and he said "we're ready when Grant is..." That was earlyish last year.

Tell him to "get ready", damnit!

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