BIOGRAPHY:

"Grant Morrison is five feet eleven inches tall and has dark brown hair and hazel eyes. His favourite colour is turquoise. His favourite foods are chocolate, salt and vinegar chips, salads and spicy foreign muck. He has an appendectomy scar. His mother is called Agnes, his dad is called Walter and his sister is called Leigh. His favourite animal is a cat and his favourite girl is called Magdalena. His is single, heterosexual (with possible latent homosexual tendencies), and is currently quite wealthy. His work has been described as gibberish. That's all there is to him."
Biographical details from The Invisibles #1

Well not quite all. He now sports a shaved head. Also, he was born in 1960 and raised in Glasgow. As a child he immersed himself in mystery and science fiction writing and collecting American comics. But then in 1976, punk hit the nation. "I was utterly transformed by it." He formed a band. "If you stand in front of people and sing songs that you've written, you get an immediate response, either they jump up and down or they hit you with beer bottles. I really like that and I miss it a lot."

Brimming with attitude and always controversial, Grant has been writing comics professionally since 1978. But why write comics for a living? "I'd just always wanted to write, from way back. And I'd written a couple of novels as a teenager... But then I saw Warrior come out, and at this point I hadn't read comics for years. The stuff Alan Moore was doing seemed interesting enough to give me the idea that maybe there was something worth doing in comics, and that the kind of work I was interested in might actually be appropriate for comics than for novels... I'd rather communicate with lots of people than a few. One of the reasons I do comics rather than write books is that nobody buys books any more. If you do a comic that sells a million and manages one good idea, it's better than doing a book which sells 2,000 and has a lot of good ideas."

For all things related to The Invisibles go to and read Anarchy For The Masses: The Disinformation Guide To The Invisibles an issue by issue analysis of Grant Morrison's manifesto.

Interviews:
Newsarama (2006)
Silver Bullet Comic Books (2005)
The Pulse (2005)
Newsarama (2005)
Suicide Girls (2005)
Newsarama (2005)
Pop Image (2004)
Comic Book Resources (2003)
Barbelith (2002)
Disinformation (2002)
Newsarama (2002)
Sequential Tart (2002)
Ninth Art (2001)
The Comics Journal #176 (1995)

Resources:
Recommended by... Grant Morrison
GrantMorrison.com
Barbelith
Grant Morrison at DC Comics
Grant Morrison at 2000AD
Pop Image: Profile
4 Color Heroes

Reviews:
iComics: We3
Ninth Art: We3
The Fourth Rail: Seaguy

The Filth
with Chris Weston & Gary Erskine
DC/Vertigo, 2004
To outward appearances Greg Feely is a meek lonely man caring for his sick cat, Tony. But Greg Feely is really a parapersonality, created as a recuperative vessel for Ned Slade, a top operative in The Hand - an extradimensional cleanup squad charged with maintaining society's even keel, cleaning up disruptive anti-persons that threaten social hygiene. Slade is needed back on the job to hunt down the most dangerous anti-person yet - the rouge Hand agent, Spartacus Hughes. The Filth is a savage satire of new millennium sex, politics and identity.

"The Filth is the best thing Morrison has ever written... It's a damn good book, and ambitious in a way that only a truly gifted writer can pull off. Like Watchmen before it, it is also one of those rare pieces of art that seduces the reader with sheer virtuosity."
The Comics Journal #258

We3
DC/Vertigo, 2005
We3 is an eerie tale mixing science fiction and horror... with cute furry animals. Three innocent pets - a dog, a cat and a rabbit - have been converted into deadly cyborgs by a sinister military weapons program. With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 have the firepower of a battalion between them. But they are just the program's prototypes, and now that their testing is complete they're slated to be permanently de-commissioned. Seizing their one chance to make a desperate run for freedom, the We3 team are relentlessly pursued by their makers and must navigate a frightening and confusing world where their instincts and heightened abilities make them as much a threat as those hunting them - but a world, nonetheless, in which somewhere there is something called home.

"We3 is the sort of book that can be described as depressingly beautiful. Everything works so perfectly here, and while it is certainly a work of beauty, it's a kind of beauty that brings great sadness by design. It's hard to not be touched emotionally by We3, and I thank Morrison and Quitely taking me on a most incredible journey. As a reader, you will be hard-pressed to find something better."
iComics

The Invisibles
DC/Vertigo, 1994-2000
On 22 December 2012, history will end. Two opposing forces battle to claim control of the new universe that will prevail beyond that apocalyptic event. On the one side wait the Archons of the Outer Church, inhuman forces of control and tyranny. The Archons and their human agents already control governments, media and armies. On the opposing side stand The Invisibles, a loose network of freedom fighters and occult terrorists pledged to sabotage and undermine the structures of power. This is the choice: Timeless Freedom or Eternal Control.

"The Invisibles... is that rare thing, a smart, spooky, exciting comic. Grant Morrison is a master of smart comics."
Time Out

"This is the comic I've wanted to write all my life - a comic about everything; action, philosophy, paranoia, sex, magic, biography, travel, drugs, religion, UFO's... you can make your own list. And when it reaches its conclusion, somewhere down the line, I promise to reveal who runs the world, why our lives are the way they are and exactly what happens to us when we die."
Grant Morrison, from The Invisibles #1

Seaguy
with Cameron Stewart
DC/Vertigo, 2004
Surreal madness. A hero without a purpose in a world without evil. Would be hero Seaguyand his faithful companion Chubby Da Choona try to decipher the mystery of Xoo - a ubiquitous new food that seems to have evolved into a brand-new conscious lifeform.

"As the story progressed and took on a life of its own, it soon became clear that it was really about the 'big brothering' of society, omnipresent surveillance and global disinformation. It's about the dumbing down of culture, the creation of capitalist 'comfort zones' in the midst of social decay, about a world tranquillized and satisfied and quite unaware of the dark glue that holds it all together... and talking tuna fish."
Grant Morrison

St Swithin's Day
with Paul Grist
Trident Comics, 1990
"... initially it was something based on [my] diaries. But the diaries also contained my reactions to the election of Thatcher for the first time in 1979, and I was really surprised, because I kept hearing all these shop keepers saying how fantastic it would be for the country. And suddenly finding this stuff 10 years later shed a cruel light on it all. So rather than just write something based on my diaries, which would have been really boring, I wanted it to have some momentum, and that's how the assassination plot came in. I think a lot of people have thought that was a political strip, but I don't think it was political at all. The important stuff was the whole atmosphere of someone being 19, and that real hothouse way of thinking."
Grant Morrison, from an interview in The Comics Journal #176

Graphic Novels:
The Filth (2004)
We3 (2004)
Seaguy (2004)
The Mystery Play (1994)
Sebastian O (1993)
Arkham Asylum (1989)

The Invisibles (1994-2000):
1: You Say You Want A Revolution
2: Apocalipstick
3: Entropy In The UK
4: Bloody Hell In America
5: Counting To None
6: Kissing Mister Quimper
7: The Invisible Kingdom

New X-Men (2001-2004):
1: E Is For Extinction
2: Imperial
3: New Worlds
4: Riot At Xavier's
5: Assault On Weapon Plus
6: Planet X
7: Here Comes Tomorrow

Justice League Of America (1996-2001):
Earth 2
1: New World Order
2: American Dreams
3: Rock Of Ages
4: Strength In Numbers
5: Justice For All
6: World War 3

Animal Man (1988-1990)
1: Animal Man
2: Deus Ex Machina
3: Origin Of The Species

Doom Patrol (1989-1993)
1: Crawling From The Wreckage
2: The Painting That Ate Paris

Prose:
Lovely Biscuits (1998)

Other Comics:
Fantastic Four 1234 (2001)
Marvel Boy (2000-2001)
Flex Mentallo (1996)
Kill Your Boyfriend (1995)
Big Dave (1993)
Kid Eternity (1991)
Dare (1990-1991)
Bible John (1990)
The New Adventures Of Hitler (1990)
St Swithin's Day (1990)
Zenith (1987-2000)