Grant Morrison is one of the most popular and acclaimed contemporary writers of any genre. His long list of credits as a comic-book writer include "JLA, New X-Men, Seven Soldiers, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, The Invisibles, We3, The Filth, "and "Batman: Arkham Asylum, "the bestselling original graphic novel of all time. He is also an award-winning playwright and screenwriter.
Praise for SUPERGODS
"Grant Morrison is the antimatter to the often mundane world of
comics - SUPERGODS is the finely tuned death-ray. Far beyond
deconstruction, it exposes, challenges, invigorates and detonates
everything we know about this modern mythology. SUPERGODS gives
meaning to the fictional worlds we create and live within and helps
us make sense of the madness within ourselves through the
four-color world of the super hero." --Gerard Way, lead singer of
My Chemical Romance and author of The Umbrella Academy.
"Excellent ... engrossing ... Morrison is a skilled word magician,
seeking creativity in a cosmological dimension." --Publishers
Weekly
"Morrison is ideally suited to the task of chronicling the glorious
rise, fall, rise, fall and rise again of comic-book superheroes. As
thorough an account of the superhero phenomenon as readers are
likely to find, filled with unexpected insights and savvy pop-psych
analysis. Those who dare enter will find the prose equivalent of a
Morrison superhero tale: part perplexing, part weird, fully
engrossing." --Kirkus
#1 in Wired's "10 Books That Will Fry Your Mind This Summer" "Grant
Morrison has a hell of a tale to tell: The graphic novelist who
co-created Batman's twisted game-changer Arkham Asylum: A Serious
House on Serious Earth tripped on psilocybin mushrooms, fought
movie execs to keep the Joker in high heels and reaped the benefits
of going 50 hours without sleep in order to better access his
unconscious. Subtitled What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants,
and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human, this
trippy autobiography-cum-critical essay gathers up the deep
thoughts and otherworldly hallucinations experienced by the comics
writer." --Wired.com
NPR's "Summer High Fliers" "Grant Morrison is one of the world's
leading experts on comic books, and he draws on his entire body of
work in Supergods, charting the history of superheroes from the
very beginning. Morrison places the figures we all know --
Superman, Spider-Man, the X-Men -- in a broad cultural context,
invoking art history, science and mythology to explain why we are
so fascinated by the superhuman." --NPR.org
Praise for Grant Morrison
"Grant Morrison is one of the great comics writers of all time. I
wish I didn't have to compete with someone as good as him."--Stan
Lee
"Grant's whole body of work inspired me."--Gerard Way, My Chemical
Romance
"I suddenly realized that everything that I'm trying to say in my
nonfiction work, and in some of my fiction work, had been so
beautifully and so imaginatively expressed in the work of Grant
Morrison."--Deepak Chopra
Praise for Grant Morrison
"Grant Morrison is one of the great comics writers of all time. I
wish I didn't have to compete with someone as good as him."--Stan
Lee
"Grant's whole body of work inspired me."--Gerard Way, My Chemical
Romance
"I suddenly realized that everything that I'm trying to say in my
nonfiction work, and in some of my fiction work, had been so
beautifully and so imaginatively expressed in the work of Grant
Morrison."--Deepak Chopra
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