{"id":2686,"date":"2011-06-22T14:14:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T21:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2011-06-23T07:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T14:08:15","slug":"before-they-were-comic-book-stars-11-grant-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/before-they-were-comic-book-stars-11-grant-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Before They Were Comic Book Stars #11 Grant Morrison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don’t even start at Marvel or DC. Here’s a look at some work by comic book creators … before they were stars.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"NearGrant Morrison<\/a> has written important and critically acclaimed runs on Animal Man<\/em>, Doom Patrol<\/em>, JLA<\/em>, the X-Men <\/em>as well as many others. He’s had notable creator-owned works including the Invisibles<\/em>, WE3 <\/em>and Zenith<\/em>. <\/p>\n

And, even though he’s well-known for his American comics work, his first published work was in the British anthology mag, Near Myths<\/em>, in 1978. It also featured Bryan Talbot’s Luther Arkwright and work by Brian Lumley. Morrison’s contributions for this anthology include: Time Is A Four Lettered Word<\/em>, Gideon Stargrave <\/em>and Checkmate Man<\/em>. It should be noted that not only is Morrison the writer for these features but, he’s also the artist!<\/p>\n

On Ebay<\/u>: Grant Morrison<\/a>
\nOn AtomicAvenue<\/u>: Near Myths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don’t even start at Marvel or DC. Here’s a look at some work by comic book creators … before they were stars. Grant Morrison has written important and critically acclaimed runs on Animal Man, Doom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-they-were-comic-book-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}