Grant Morrison

His first work was published in 1987 and he was getting paid 10 pounds a page. When he created “Zenith 2000 AD,” it caught the eye of DC Comics and his career took off.  When at DC he pitched a few comic ideas and eventually his idea for “Animal Man” was published. In the late 80s he came out with “Doom Patrol” and shortly after, “Arkham Asylum,” which was important. This comic was the inspiration for one of the best onscreen performances of all time. Anyone who has seen The Dark Knight knows the spine tingling performance Heath Ledger gave. Most of his inspiration came from Morrison’s comics and he would take notes in a “Joker Diary” (Arkham). In an interview Morrison states, “ It gave me this chill…” (Arkham) “ Because it was word for word what Morrison had written in one of his Batman stories” (Arkham).

Arkham Asylum sparked interest in viewers because it was a different take on batman. It was a look on the darker side and made $120,000 on its first release. Then came the “Invisibles,” his most popular comic. Richard Metzger, the founder of Disinformation, states that his work is like "a bullet with a candy coating". (Talking) And the way Morrison achieves this, especially in the Invisibles, is that he becomes the character. One character in particular in the Invisibles that Morrison connected with. He connected so much with this character that he started to dress like the character, talk like him, hang out at places the character would hang out, even perform rituals that the character would perform. The reason he does this is to provide a sense of realism in the actual comic. He wants to go what the character goes through so he can tell the story truthfully. He goes so in depth that when he wrote an issue where the character got sick, Morrison, a few weeks later, got sick.