Grant Morrison is a Scottish comic book author and playwright. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings, as well as his successful runs on titles like Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Jla, The Invisibles, New X-men, Fantastic Four, All-star Superman, and Batman.
Grant Morrison started life in Glasgow, Scotland in 1960. His first released books were Gideon Stargrave strips for Near Myths in 1978 , one of the first British alternative comics. His work appeared in four of the five issues of Near Myths and he was suitably encouraged to find more comic work. This included a weekly comic strip Captain Clyde, an unemployed superhero based in Glasgow, for The Govan Press, a local newspaper, plus various issues of Dc Thomson's Starblazer, a science fiction version of that company's Commando title.
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Morrison spent much of the early 1980s touring and recording with his band The Mixers, composing the occasional Starblazer for D. Thompson and contributing to various Uk indie titles. In 1982 he 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. After composing The Liberators for Dez Skinn's Warrior in 1985, he started work for Marvel Uk the following year. There he created a number of comic strips for Doctor Who Magazine, his final one a collaboration with a then-teenage Bryan Hitch, as well as a run on the Zoids strip in Spider-man and Zoids.
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