Grant Morrison Supergods interview transcript
June 30th, 2011
Boosted for our new readers. Welcome, new readers!
For the audio recording click here
Gary: Hello there this is Gary Lactus and I’m here with Bobsy
Bobsy: Hello
Gary: and we’re just about to phone Grant Morrison to intervew him about his new book supergods. It’s not a comic it’s a book. It’s Part memoir…
Bobsy: …part biography of the superhero in comics and part meditation on what “superhero” means, not just to us geeky chaps, but out there in the wider world
Gary: Right, and Bobsy will be doing much of the interviewing for he has read the book and I have not.
Bobsy: I’ve read a proof which is a bit different to the final copy, which I’ve read most of, so I don’t know how accurate some of what I’m saying is but we’ll go with that.
Our hotline to Grant Morrison!
Grant Morrison interview: Supergodcast!
June 28th, 2011
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Here’s a recording of a Grant Morrison interview concerning mainly his new book Supergods. Bobsy did the interview with small interjections from Gary Lactus. Here’s the nice picture on the back of the book:
Lovely
Thanks to Grant and the folk at Jonathan Cape for their help in setting up this interview. Apologies for sound quality.
EXPECT:
Inadequate speakerphone with buzzing!
Intrusive street noise!
Phone line breaking up!
Phone and recording device falling over!
We need to do a transcript which will appear here soon but we thought you might want to hear the whole thing.
If you’re new here you might want to have a look around. We have lots more thoughts on Morrison’s work.
Amy Poodle on the Invisibles for The Comics Journal
Illogical Volume on the Filth
Batman annocommentations (probably quite different from anything you’ve read elsewhere)
Seaguy annocommentations
Amy Poodle on All Star Superman
And that’s just the tip of a very big iceberg.
A Year Without Cider week 22
June 25th, 2011
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her Monday Morning strip here.
Good going New York state
June 25th, 2011
Talking bollocks – Garth Ennis’ John Constantine part 1
June 20th, 2011
Bullshit ain’t about lying, not according to philosopher Harry Frankfurt from Princeton University. It is, however, still concerned with falsehood.
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.
Great, an’ all, and all very right sounding, but it’s not the definition you’ll likely get from the man on the street. So if we don’t fully grasp bullshit, then God help foreign readers when it comes to its close cousin “bollocks”, that most British of swearwords.
A Year Without Cider week 21
June 18th, 2011
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her Monday Morning strip here.
Amypoodle on hauntology and The Invisibles – Part III
June 16th, 2011
Over on The Comics Journal website right now.
It’s the best of the bunch. You don’t know The Invisibles unless you know our Poodle.
Cartoon County interview #6: Lint The Movie
June 15th, 2011
Here’s May’s Cartoon County podchat for your ears. This month we talked to Kino Club founder, Adam Whitehall about Steve Aylett’s documentary on notorious sci-fi author, Jeff Lint. Here’s a snippet.
The chat gets a little Brighton-centric at times but is filled with interesting ideas. We also have a brief chat with Sean Duffield on his finally completed anthology, War: The Human Cost, and the announcement of Myriad Editions’ First Graphic Novel competition.
TALES FROM THE MILLARDROME: Monument to a Forgotten Future
June 14th, 2011
We’ll stop at nothing, you see. All the suffering and the death and the pain in your world is entertainment for us. Why does blood and torture and anguish still excite us?
We thought that by making your world more violent we would make it more “realistic,” more “adult.” God help us if that’s what it means.
Maybe, for once, we could try to be kind.
(Grant Morrison, Animal Man #26)
TALES FROM THE MILLARDROME, PART 1: Having recently spent a bit of time ripping the pish out of Marky “Mark” Millar while writing up my Kapow! experience, and having then heckled my way through a twitter argument about Mark Millar’s collaborations with Frank Quitely on The Authority, I felt an odd sense of duty to reread Millar’s breakthrough comic. To see if it still worked.
And you know what? Turns out Millar’s first story, ‘The Nativity’, is still really fucking good:
Chris Burnham cheeky interview
June 12th, 2011
Chris Burnham. Interviewed. By us. Screaming. Nuff said.
- But enough about you, Chris. Were you familiar with our site already, or did you google your name?
- How is that, the googling?
Heh. I think I got a Google Alert about it, though I may have been directed here by Cameron Stewart. Either way, I’d been to the site before for your MorrisoNotations. I seriously love this Grant Morrison stuff. The other night I was the second or third person in the world to read Batman Incorporated #7. Pretty awesome to still be able to geek out over something that you’ve been slaving over.
My girlfriend set me up with some Google Alerts so I’m no longer distracted by googling myself every half hour when a new issue comes out. Sadly, Twitter has filled that void. That shit is as bad as Bejeweled Blitz. If you told me that all this addictive distraction stuff was an evil Chinese conspiracy to destroy the productivity of the Weak-Willed West I would totally believe you. Internet’s been pretty nice to me, actually. Not nearly as much “poor man’s Quitely” as I was expecting.
The best interview you’ll ever read with Chris Burnham continues over the jump
