Frasi di Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison è un fumettista britannico.

Appartiene alla New Wave degli scrittori di fumetti britannici degli anni ottanta e novanta. È diventato famoso a livello internazionale per la sua opera Batman: Arkham Asylum e per aver rilanciato la Justice League of America della DC Comics e gli X-Men della Marvel Comics . Nel corso degli anni si è guadagnato un seguito di fan che lo considerano una "rock star dei fumetti" grazie al suo stile innovativo e anticonvenzionale, emerso soprattutto nelle sue opere con personaggi meno conosciuti quali Zenith, Animal Man, Doom Patrol e Invisibles. Negli ultimi anni ha lavorato quasi esclusivamente per la DC Comics, dove ha avuto il compito di rigenerare il personaggio di Superman all'interno del progetto The New 52.

La sua popolarità l'ha portato all'attenzione degli studios di Hollywood, interessati ai possibili adattamenti cinematografici delle sue opere a fumetti . Su di lui è stato inoltre realizzato un documentario ed esiste una convention di fumetti da lui creata e patrocinata. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Gennaio 1960
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Grant Morrison: Frasi in inglese

“The real world is filled with ghost stories, non sequiturs, inexplicable mysteries, dead ends and absurdities”

On life
Contesto: Otherwise, I know I’m often wasting my breath and electronic ink saying this, but the “real-world” is a pretty weird place where lots of inexplicable things happen all the time, and I like to catch the flavor of that too. It just seems more modern and authentic to me as a storyteller. The “real world” doesn’t come with the neat three-act structures and resolutions we love to impose on it, and if repeated doses of movie and TV-storytelling have convinced anyone that it does, it‘s time to get out and about a bit. The real world is filled with ghost stories, non sequiturs, inexplicable mysteries, dead ends and absurdities, and I think it’s cool to season our comfortable fictions with at least a little taste of what actual reality is like. http://www.newsarama.com/comics/060904-Grant-Batman.html

“Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.”

Popimage interview https://web.archive.org/web/20040803001942/http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20044.html
On magic
Contesto: All the comics are sigils. "Sigil" as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all. It's not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that's being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code. The world's at a crisis point and it's time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are "special" people with special powers. It's not like that. Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

“All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all.”

Popimage interview https://web.archive.org/web/20040803001942/http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20044.html
On magic
Contesto: All the comics are sigils. "Sigil" as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all. It's not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that's being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code. The world's at a crisis point and it's time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are "special" people with special powers. It's not like that. Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

“Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.”

Origine: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

“I run blindly through the madhouse… And I cannot even pray… For I have no God.”

Origine: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

“I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.”

Origine: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”

Origine: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

“It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?”

Origine: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

“The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.”

Origine: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.”

Origine: The Invisibles, Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution

“The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.”

Origine: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?”

Origine: Animal Man, Vol. 2: Origin of the Species

“I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.”

Origine: Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage

“I use media exposure as a means of playing with multiple personalities. Each interview is a different me and they're all untrustworthy”

2000
http://web.archive.org/web/20010215211642/http://www.bbc.co.uk/edfest/chat/post_chat.shtml
On himself

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