By Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutovic and Frank Bramlett Grant Morrison is a key figure among the first wave of authors of the so-called “British Generation” (Sandifer…
Edited By Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutovic, and Frank Bramlett In addition to the editors, the participants are: Kate Roddy, Keith Scott, Darragh Greene, Nick Galante, Tommi…
By Roy T. Cook Introduction Magic, and the nature of magic, plays a central role in Grant Morrison’s 2005 comic Vimanarama. In this essay I will analyze…
By Clare Pitkethly “Can’t they see I’m breaking in a thousand places?” (Morrison, Arkham Asylum 69) Abstract While the pages of a comic are divided by panels, there…
By Keith Scott Introduction My title comes from Van, not Grant, Morrison; not just because of a fondness for the music of my compatriot, but because…
By Darragh Greene I’th’ commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things. For no kind of traffic Would I admit, no name of magistrate; Letters should…
By Kate Roddy I’m deliberately injecting the worst aspects of life it [sic] into my readers[‘] heads in small, humorous doses of metaphor and symbol, in…
By Nick Galante The Tradition of the Otherworld The use of fantasy to reflect the real world is a well-established practice. Writers have long used fantastic…
By Adnan Mahmutovic, David Coughlan, and Stephen Blake Ervin In his groundbreaking Animal Man (1988-90),1 Grant Morrison is concerned with the ways in which man and animal…
Making and Breaking the Superhero Quotidian: How All-Star Superman Embodies and Revises the Everyday
By Frank Bramlett Abstract This essay explores the idea of the everyday in All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. Scholars identify the everyday, or the quotidian,…