Morrison's Doom Patrol introduced concepts such as dadaism and the writings of Jorge Luis Borges into the first several issues. Īfter impressing with Animal Man, Morrison was asked to take over Doom Patrol, starting their surreal take on the superhero genre with issue No. 19 in 1989.
They accepted Morrison's proposals for Animal Man, a little-known character from DC's past whose most notable recent appearance was a cameo in the Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series, and for a 48-page Batman one-shot that would eventually become Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.Īnimal Man put Morrison in line with the so-called " British Invasion" of American comics, along with such writers as Neil Gaiman, Peter Milligan, Jamie Delano, and Alan Moore, who had launched the "invasion" with his work on Swamp Thing. Morrison's work on Zenith brought them to the attention of DC Comics, who asked Morrison to work for them.
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Morrison's first continuing serial began in 2000 AD in 1987, when they and Steve Yeowell created Zenith. 1986 also saw publication of Morrison's first of several two- or three-page Future Shocks for 2000 AD. There they wrote comic strips for Doctor Who Magazine, the final one a collaboration with a then-teenage Bryan Hitch, as well as a run on the Zoids strip in Spider-Man and Zoids. After writing The Liberators for Dez Skinn's Warrior in 1985, Morrison started work for Marvel UK the following year. In 1982, Morrison 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. Thomson and contributing to various UK indie titles. Morrison spent much of the early 1980s touring and recording with their band The Mixers, occasionally writing Starblazer for D.
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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. Their work appeared in four of the five issues of Near Myths and they were suitably encouraged to find more comic work. Their first published works were Gideon Stargrave strips for Near Myths in 1978 (when they were about 17), one of the first British alternative comics. They were educated at Allan Glen's School where their first portfolio of art was rejected by their careers guidance teacher, who encouraged them to work in a bank. Grant Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1960.
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