{"id":996,"date":"2010-08-04T07:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2010-08-04T07:34:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T14:34:36","slug":"before-they-were-comic-book-stars-7-grant-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/before-they-were-comic-book-stars-7-grant-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Before They Were Stars #7 Grant Morrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\">Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don&#8217;t even start at Marvel or DC. Here&#8217;s a look at some work by comic book creators &#8230; before they were stars.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/sunrise-1.jpg\" align=\"left\" title=\"Sunrise #1 by Grant Morrison\" alt=\"Sunrise #1 by Grant Morrison\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grantmorrison.com\/\">Grant Morrison<\/a> has written important and critically acclaimed runs on <em>Animal Man<\/em>, <em>Doom Patrol<\/em>, <em>JLA<\/em>, the <em>X-Men <\/em>as well as many others. He&#8217;s had notable creator-owned works including <em>the Invisibles<\/em>, <em>WE3 <\/em>and <em>Zenith<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>According to his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grant_morrison\">Wikipedia entry<\/a>, his first published work was for <em>Near Myths <\/em>in 1978 but, he didn&#8217;t break into mainstream American comics until the late 1980s. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to his ground-breaking runs on pre-Vertigo DC titles, he was published in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/desc.shop.ebay.com\/cyberspacecomics\/m.html?_nkw=%22harrier+comics%22&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1&#038;_armrs=1&#038;_from=&#038;_ipg=25&#038;_mPrRngCbx=1&#038;_udhi=&#038;_udlo=\">Harrier Comics<\/a>&#8216; <em>Sunrise <\/em>from 1987. But, he didn&#8217;t write the main feature, <em>Sunrise<\/em>. No. He wrote the back-up story entitled, <em>Abraxas<\/em>, teamed with artist, <strong>Tony O&#8217;Donnell<\/strong>. The series only lasted two issues.<\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22grant+morrison%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Grant Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don&#8217;t even start at Marvel or DC. Here&#8217;s a look at some work by comic book creators &#8230; before they were stars. Grant Morrison has written important and critically acclaimed runs on Animal Man, Doom [&hellip;]<\/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-996","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\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}