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Grant Morrison loves a good tease, and they’ve just begun to tease the impending arrival of their latest project with Liam Sharp, Eden’s End. The title, coming sometime in Spring 2023, will be released under the ‘Xanaduum Presents’ banner, named after Morrison’s Substack newsletter. Morrison described Eden’s End as “a massive, primordial tale of inhuman science, subhuman horror, and superhuman savagery – a story of War, Betrayal, Rise and Fall, Blood and Bullshit!” It’s unclear whether the story will be posted solely…

Two Sisters – the new memoir by poet, novelist and critic Blake Morrison – arrives 30 years after his influential And When Did You Last See Your Father? (A second memoir, Things My Mother Never Told Me, followed a little under a decade after the first.) Like the two earlier books, which concerned the author’s parents, Two Sisters has been published after its protagonist’s death. Morrison’s sister Gill, who flits through the pages of those previous stories “like a film extra”, died at 67 of causes related to alcoholism.…

The poet and writer Blake Morrison has long made a habit of getting to know his closest relatives better only after they have died. I don’t mean this unkindly; in life, I’m sure he’s as dutiful and devoted (or not) as the next person. But there’s no ignoring the fact that the grave seems to release him, spurring his deepest thinking, his best prose and (perhaps) his most assiduous, open-hearted loving. In 1993, he published And When Did You Last See Your Father?, in which he exhumed his dad. In 2002, he gave us Things My…

If you’re reading this, my sister is dead. I may be dead too, but that’s beside the point, for you if not for me. Many years ago I resolved not to write about her while she was alive, or rather not to publish anything that I had written. She – Gill – had walk-on parts, like a film extra, in two memoirs I published about our parents: And When Did You Last See Your Father? in 1993, and Things My Mother Never Told Me in 2002. That’s all it was: the odd look-in or passing mention. There was plenty to be said but not yet. Even…

| Seaguy was planned as a three-volume comic book miniseries written by Grant Morrison with art by Cameron Stewart and published by DC/Vertigo. A comic book series about a powerless superhero in a scuba suit, with his sidekick Chubby Da Choona, a talking, cigar-smoking tuna fish. The first volume was published in 2004, the second, Seaguy: The Slaves of Mickey Eye, in 2009. The third, Seaguy Eternal was never seen. Until now. In yesterday's Substack newsletter, Grant Morrison promises a final return to Seaguy Eternal, of…

Two lucky creators just got a sweet Mac Studio setup courtesy of Apple and technology YouTuber Jonathan Morrison.In a new video posted today to his YouTube channel, Jonathan Morrison revealed that he has been collaborating with Apple to gift two creators with what he describes as a "dream" Mac Studio setup. In addition to the Mac Studio, the setup included a Studio Display, iPhone, AirPods, and iPad Pro.Morrison said that he "got a chance to surprise my friends with a dream Mac Studio setup which included a Studio…

| Grant Morrison just posted the following to his Substack. An old comic book page, written and drawn by Grant Morrison from the 1970s, that suddenly seems to have gained greater relevance. Possibly. Either way, they posted it out of context today, with no other reason or description attached. I guess you could draw your own conclusions if you wish. I chose – as did others – to see it as a parable or comparison made with the current actions of one Twitter-owning Elon Musk. Did Grant Morrison Subtweet Elon Musk On…

In late August, the town of Wadebridge in north Cornwall is teeming with Morris dancers, and pub gardens are alive with song. The occasion is the Cornwall folk festival, and in the late summer haze, everyone gets very merry.Nevertheless, “merry” isn’t the right word for Angeline Morrison’s performance on Friday night. Standing alone, alternating between accompanying herself on autoharp, mountain dulcimer and mbira and singing a cappella, she previews her new album, The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British…

| Grant Morrison went on Late Night With Seth Meyers last night to talk about their first novel, published this week, Luda. Described as a "story about an aging drag queen and a younger prodigy who comes into their life and how it affects it" all set in a Scottish/American melded city of Gasglow, a combination of Glasgow and Brooklyn, and a place in which Grant visited in their dreams. They told Seth; Seth Meyers screencap "I wanted to do a retelling of the old story of Merlin the magician, the Arthurian legend. And he…

“I’ve been thinking about death.” The late ’80s and early ’90s were a heady time for reinventing and reinvigorating various characters across the DC Universe. Some, like Sandman caught fire, while others faded back into fondly remembered but relative obscurity. Regardless, it was a time of rampant creativity, taking interesting risks with the characters, often shaping them into something new. One of them re-imagined the former Quality Comics character, Kid Eternity, by Grant Morrison, Duncan Fegredo, and Gaspar Saladino,…