![]() So at that point I decided, after I’d seen a couple of his things and they seemed incredibly derivative, I just decided to stop bothering reading his work. Which I suppose is a tactic – although not one that, of course, I’m likely to appreciate. He later explained this as saying that when he started writing, he felt that he wasn’t famous enough, and that a good way of becoming famous would be to say nasty things about me. Then there started a kind of, a strange campaign of things in fanzines where he was expressing his opinions of me, as you put it. When I saw that work in 2000 AD I thought ‘Well, this seems as if it’s a bit of a cross between Captain Britain and Marvelman, but that’s probably something that he’ll grow out of.’ It was on that basis that I recommended him to Karen Berger when she was starting. And I wished him the best of luck, I told him I’d look out for his work. He said how much he admired my work, how it had inspired him to want to be a comics writer. This was I think the only time that I met him to speak to. ![]() They asked if I could perhaps – if they could invite a local comics writer who was a big admirer of mine along to the dinner. The first time I met him, he was an aspiring comics writer from Glasgow, I was up there doing a signing or something. Can we possibly draw you out on your views of him and his work?ĪLAN MOORE’S RESPONSE: Well, let me see… The reason I haven’t spoken about Grant Morrison generally is because I’m not very interested in him, and I don’t really want to get involved with a writer of his calibre in some sort of squabble. ![]() Obviously I’m talking about Grant Morrison here, who has never been terribly shy about his views on you or your work. QUESTION TO ALAN MOORE: You are somewhat surprisingly not the only acclaimed comics writer from the UK to also be a vocal magician. One of the questions asked was what he thought of Grant Morrison… In 2011, Alan Moore did a live Q&A webchat where he responded to fans’ questions. Part 7: Alan Moore Describes the “Persistence of Grant Morrison” and Morrison Shuts Up About Moore (2014-2018) Part 6: Alan Moore Says What He Thinks About Grant Morrison and Morrison Issues a Fierce Rebuttal (2012) Part 5: Grant Morrison Says a Lot of Things about Alan Moore (1980’s-2010’s) Part 4: Comics Written by Alan Moore, then by Grant Morrison (1980’s-2010’s) Part 3: Grant Morrison Writes Spoofs About Alan Moore and Says Nice Things (1980’s-2010’s) Part 2: Karen Berger, the Berger Books, and Vertigo (1981-1993) Part 1: Grant Morrison’s First Ten Years of Comics (1978-1987) This is Part 6 in a series of posts looking at why Alan Moore doesn’t like Grant Morrison.
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