Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison is a Scottish comic-book writer known for formally experimental superhero stories, including influential runs on Batman, Doom Patrol, and Animal Man.

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Animal Man (comic book): A DC Comics series in which Buddy Baker, a superhero, confronts ecological concerns and the nature of fictional reality. Morrison’s run made the series a metafictional landmark, culminating in the writer’s appearance within the story.
Metafiction: Fiction that draws attention to its own status as an invented work or to the process of making it. Morrison often makes comic-book characters confront the stories and creators that shape their worlds.
2000 AD: A British weekly science-fiction comics anthology launched in 1977, known for stories such as Judge Dredd. Morrison developed as a comics writer in British anthology comics, including work for 2000 AD.
Karen Berger: An American comics editor who helped develop DC’s Vertigo imprint and championed creator-driven comics. Berger edited and supported several of Morrison’s major DC projects during Vertigo’s formative years.
Vertigo Comics: A DC Comics imprint, launched in 1993, known for creator-driven comics aimed largely at adult readers. Morrison’s work helped establish the kind of formally ambitious comics associated with the imprint.
Doom Patrol: A DC Comics superhero team of misfits whose strange abilities and experiences challenge conventional ideas of heroism. Morrison reshaped the team into a vehicle for surrealism, outsider identity, and experimental comics.
Comic-book multiverse: A framework in which multiple distinct fictional universes coexist within a comic-book continuity. Morrison uses parallel worlds to connect different versions of characters and comic-book histories.
Animal Man (character): A DC Comics superhero who can temporarily acquire the abilities of nearby animals. The pre-existing character became the lead of Morrison’s early American comics breakthrough.
Chas Truog: An American comic-book artist known for drawing Grant Morrison’s Animal Man series. Truog’s art gave visual form to the run’s shifts between superhero action and metafiction.
British Invasion (comics): The influx of British writers and artists into American comics during the 1980s and early 1990s. Morrison was among the British writers whose success reshaped American comics in this period.