“The comics medium is a very specialized area of the Arts; home to many rare and talented blooms and flowering imaginations and it breaks my heart to see so many of our best and brightest bowing down to the same market pressures which drive lowest common-denominator blockbuster movies and television cop shows. Let’s see if we can call time on this trend by demanding and creating big, wild comics which stretch our imaginations. Let’s make living, breathing, sprawling adventures filled with mind-blowing images of things unseen on Earth. Let’s make artifacts that are not faux-games or movies but something other, something so rare and strange it might as well be a window into another universe because that’s what it is.” – Grant Morrison, 2004
A Window To Another Universe
Even as I dig my heels in with the many arguments against this statement … yeah, it’s kind of awesome.
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There are many arguments to be made. I just love his creative perspective.
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I’d love to see it. It’s one thing to talk about it, and another to get to it.
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As a call-to-arms, that’s pretty good. I can’t help but think about the many experiments that people in independent comics and web comics are trying and wondering if some aren’t already leading the charge while DC/Marvel are following reluctantly along the well-trod pathways of complacency.
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And this is why I, and so many others, love Grant Morrisson and his work . . . so much!
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Just stumbled across this. It’s the bloody blog I’ve been wanting to write for the last twelve months or more, but haven’t had the words for. Eloquently packaged in a single paragraph from over half a decade ago. I’m stubbornly opposed to obsessive name worship, but bloody hell. Comics NEED Grant Morrison. Fantastic byte!
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