Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison (born 31st January 1960) is a comics writer from Glasgow. He broke into the industry writing Gideon Stargrave for the short lived anthology Near Myths in 1978 before moving on to write Captain Clyde (an unemployed Glaswegian superhero) for the Govan Press newspaper as well as strips for DC Thomson's Starblazer. He wrote The Liberators for Dez Skinn's Warrior magazine in 1985, then a number of strips in titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Spider-Man & Zoids in 1986, the same year in which he began working for 2000AD. Though he started out at 2000AD writing Tharg's Future Shocks, his big break came with his creation of Zenith with artist Steve Yeowell, a critically acclaimed strip which brought him to the attention of American publishers DC Comics. For DC, he reinvented the minor character Animal Man and turned him into a critical success, before moving on to take over Doom Patrol and write the award winning Batman graphic novel Arkham Asylum-a Serious House on Serious Earth in 1989. He has since enjoyed a long and varied career at both DC and its 'mature readers' imprint, Vertigo, writing characters including Kid Eternity, the Flash and-for a lengthy run-the Justice League of America, as well as the X-Men for Marvel and a number of projects including the controversial Big Dave for 2000AD and The New Adventures of Hitler for Crisis. He continues to write extensively for DC, and in 2006 was voted the second favourite comic book writer of all time by Comic Book Resources (Alan Moore was at number one).