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Last night Gerard Way and Grant Morrison performed at MorrisonCon Here's a brief video snippet… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx7yUR53v8A[/youtube] Schedel Luitjen reported on the event for Bleeding Cool; Okay, the 9 pm performance (which was more like 10, but that is to be expected) was a pretty spectacular word throw-down that, at times, reminded me a bit of slam poetry, but[...]

Are you going to MorrisonCon in Las Vegas this weekend? Bleeding Cool was meant to have some people on the ground, but the organisers suddenly stopped

I'm H-A-P-P-Y… here's the variant cover for this week's launch of Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's new comic from Image, Happy You can read the Bleeding Cool review here…   I'm H-A-P-P-Y… here's the variant cover for this week's launch of Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's new comic from Image, Happy You can read the Bleeding[...]

That's the first word of the long awaited Grant Morrison/Darick Robertson Image collaboration Happy out September 26 and as far as word choice goes, it's apt Not that Morrison has ever had a problem choosing his words Not that Morrison's work has ever been considered realism But when you realize that Happy is penned by[...]

Last weekend I was in Dublin attending the Grant Morrison and The Superhero Renaissance conference Suitably sounding like a Prince concert, the event was held in the very modern (and Swedish sauna feeling—lots of bare wood) Long Room Hub of Trinity College. As Chris Murray from Dundee University (the only university in the UK currently with[...]

Grant Morrison's favourite correspondent Laura Sneddon, has just written a piece for the New Statesman, interviewing the man Here are Bleeding Cool's six favourite bits. On Gay Batman And Playboy And basically I said what I said in the book, that you can easily dial up the black-leather-fetishistic-night-dwelling aspects of Batman, and the masculinity of Batman, and[...]

And it's rather impressive for this northernly Scottish city. Grant Morrison. Frank Quitely Cameron Stewart Jill Thompson Rian Hughes Frazer Irving Basically, Grant Morrison and a bunch of artists he has worked with It's like Dundee's very own MorrisonCon, at the D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre and Baxter Suite Tower Building in the University of Dundee.  On the 28th and 29th of October,[...]

This year's Dundee Comics Day appears to have a certain Grant Morrison theme – making it the third such event this year As their Facebook page describes "Unfolding into a hologramatic hypercontext near you soon… Dundee Comics Day 2012! Time Machine Go!" May be acheivable for some to whom Las Vegas is just a little out[...]

At Alexis Park All-Suite Resort, which is described in its very address as being opposite the Hard Rock. MorrisonCon costs $500 for three days, Las Vegas Comics Expo is $40 for two days. MorrisonCon has guests Grant Morrison, Robert Kirkman, Jim Lee, Frank Quitely, Chris Burnham, JH Williams, Jonathan Hickman, Gerard Way, Darick Robertson and Jason Aaron. Las[...]

We know that Grant Morrison still has a Wonder Woman project planned for DC Comics Well, now we know that it is a Wonder Woman Year One project (UPDATE: Or is it Earth One?) And it will be drawn by his Seven Soldiers and Batman Inc compatriot Yanick Paquette, currently working on Swamp Thing And[...]

I first heard the whiffs of this rumour a few weeks ago, that the new writer of Action Comics to replace Grant Morrison was another Brit with a 2000AD past, but seemingly from pub conversations recalling half-heard conversations and nothing I could actually stand up Then Andy Diggle tweeted the following; So I just landed the[...]

Part of that is undoubtedly due to DC's decision to collect the issues in a different order to that in which they were released: rather than interrupting the main Grant Morrison and Rags Morales arc with the "origin" issue and the two-part Legion story, these are saved for the end of the HC–as are the[...]

Will Grifter be cancelled with #16? With changes across the line perhaps? Grant Morrison is also leaving Action Comics with the December issue, #16, though they are hardly cancelling that book But it might point to a sea change for the line, with poor performing books cancelled, new books begun, and creators departing and being appointed,[...]

Bleeding Cool has run a number of stories looking at the binding of DC hardcovers. Some happy, some sad. Well there is one hardcover book coming that will

But, as it was the previous year, by the time the actual show rolled out, there were many female guests at the show. While Mark Millar took a lot of flak for that, his previous colleague and now sworn nemesis Grant Morrison also has his own comic convention, in Las Vegas, MorrisonCon. Robert Kirkman, Darick Robertson, Jason[...]

Those of us who fondly remember Garth Ennis and John McCrea's Hitman series, may also remember one of the members of the non-superhero superhero team Section 8. Along with Defenestrator (the power to throw people out of windows), Friendly Fire (the power to create fire but hit friends instead of foes), Sixpack (the power to get[...]

MorrisonWatch: Grant Morrison to leave Action Comics after #16 and Batman Inc after #12. "after that I don't have any plans for monthly superhero books for a while "Multiversity" is eight issues and I'm 30-odd pages into a Wonder Woman project but those are finite stories. "I'm not saying that I'll never write superheroes again It's just[...]

The first four minute chapter of Dinosaurs Vs Aliens, by Barry Sonnefeld, Grant Morrison and Mukesh Singh as a motion comic is available free here, courtesy of Yahoo. Or you could buy the full, non-motion comic, right here Your call.   The first four minute chapter of Dinosaurs Vs Aliens, by Barry Sonnefeld, Grant Morrison and Mukesh[...]

Those are the words, written by Grant Morrison for All Star Superman And here are the words as spoken in one of the trailers for Man Of Steel. You'll give the people an ideal to strive towards.  They will race behind you. They will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In[...]

Grant Morrison from the days of the combover, talking with Simon Harrison… …who clearly made him finally saw sense. And Rian Hughes takes a dip. Jim Shooter visits the Marvel UK offices. Shaky Kane looks up. And Chris Claremont shares a drink with Marvel's SHeila Cranna.   Steve Cook's collection of comic creator photographs over the decades, is to receive an[...]

MorrisonMania runs wild: At the Glasgow Comic Con this weekend, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely were in attendance and Grant talked about his upcoming DC project, Multiversity, that has been promised for some time.  The multitudes mull it over. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Is This Miles Morales' New Girlfriend? | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News[...]

At the Glasgow Comic Con this weekend, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely were in attendance and Grant talked abiut his upcoming DC project, Multiversity, that has been promised for some time. Comics Anonymous reports; Pax Americana, Morrison briefly spoke about the other titles in the series, including the main Multiversity title which is the framing for the[...]

Before there was Bleeding Cool Magazine, there was Tripwire. A magazine published by Joel Meadows. He’s looking for funding to put out a 20th anniversary

I don't want to know, "I like what they changed", oh gof they like their job better than mine, but what I enjoyed, going back to you guys, putting in friends into the story, I just got a text from a friend of mine, Billy Mcloy, for those who read it he was that muck[...]

I've been told that, while many DC Comics freelance writers have suffered rewrite upon rewrite, note after note, change after change, from the current editorial regime – leading some to leave the book they were working on – Grant Morrison MBE is among those who don't. He has his own get out of jail free card[...]

I don't think a writer whose comic books have depicted the Queen, naked and humiliated, along well as the rest of the British Government has ever been

And here, in celebration of Grant Morrison being awarded the MBE is a transcript of a conversation between Morrison and Simon Bisley from 1994… [issuu width=420 height=297 printButtonEnabled=false backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120616165047-77d8f2b58ba64b3e8f0f90994d1e50eb name=bisley_morrison_tapes_pt1_tripwire_feb1994 username=richjohnston tag=1994 unit=px v=2] Before there was Bleeding Cool Magazine, there was Tripwire[...]

In the new honours lists, to be presented by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her Diamond Jubilee year, Grant Morrison is to be given the MBE, Member of the British Empire, as a Comic Book Writer and Playwright for services to Film and Literature. While a number of cartoonists have received this honour before, this[...]

Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's Happy,  Guarding The Globe, c0-created by The Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman and Alex De Campi going digital-to-print with Valentine. We get a first description of Happy, which also explains the four issue mini-series' title. Meet NICK SAX – a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual[...]

It was the double punch of Jupiter's Children and Happy that seems to have done it. Frank Quitely and Grant Morrison, creators who had worked for DC on the monster hit All Star Superman, Flex Mentallo and We3 and currently working on one of the Multiversity issues together. And suddenly Frank Quitely is working with Mark Millar[...]