Comments on: Grant Morrison on His Relationship with DC: “The Accounting Department Pays Regularly… I Couldn’t Say The Same For Some Of The Alternative Publishers I’ve Worked With”

By: eltrac

eltrac — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:27:17 +0000

“Grant? Really?”

—really. the truth hurts, doesn’t it Graeme?

but please, don’t let the facts alter your worldview…

By: Ned

Ned — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:19:57 +0000

Moore has parlayed successful books into this Myth of Alan Moore. Moore feeds the myth as the beleaguered creative genius, but he’s never tried to take DC to court of a contract that he claims was a misrepresentation. Misrepresentations are actionable. But Moore is smart enough to know that he profits in royalties from DC while at the same time attacking them in public, solidifying his “outlaw” stance even as he continues to gleefully cash checks from “Watchmen”, “V for Vendetta”, etc. And remember, he only ever turned down the movie money. DC shipped one million copies of Watchmen in 2008 alone.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:22:41 +0000

I’m sick of Moore’s attitude, too, and the attitude of his “Moore can do no wrong EVAH” fans.

By: CJ Overby

CJ Overby — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:35:48 +0000

Thank you Grant. Now,next time please talk a bit more directly to Alan Moore along the lines of, “It’s not like the Watchmen are original ideas. In fact neither are the characters from A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and so on. Moore needs to grow up and stop complaining that other fantastic creators are able to tell stories with characters Moore either parodied from or used directly from other creators. Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow is a great Superman story but let’s face it, there were other great Superman stories before and since.”
Am I the only fan that is just plain tired of Alan Moore’s attitude?

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:16:37 +0000

He has a point. You can talk about the clear injustices of the past, whether it be Golden Age creators screwed out of getting the credit for their creations to Jack Kirby being horribly mistreated by Marvel, but given that these are issues that everyone in the comics industry has known about and talked about since at least the late 60s, any creator who has created something in the last 20-30 years and feels that they have been screwed probably bears at least some of the responsibility. Never sign a contract without having a lawyer look it over for you and accept that early in your career when you don’t have much leverage you’re probably going to have to sign some contracts that aren’t very generous. That holds true for all freelance work.

By: hhbx

hhbx — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:47:32 +0000

Plus didn’t he also do some work for Eclipse and Oni as well?
But this kind of strikes me as typical Morrison where he’s just being straight forward and honest in how he feels but comes off sounding petty and kind of a dick towards others.

By: Kyle Garret

Kyle Garret — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:18:04 +0000

I’d be shocked if the “adult fashion” was a comment on the original negotiation between DC and Moore, but their relationship down the line.

I think Morrison comes across as completely off the mark, regardless. But I also think that both sides (DC and Moore) have behaved like crazy people since the initial deal, the former in the interests of greed and the latter, it seems, in the interests of bashing the medium and everyone who works in it.

By: Ricardo Amaral

Ricardo Amaral — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:13:26 +0000

He worked for Liquid Comics too.
By the way, I can see that if Alan Moore had been more of an adult and more of a negotiator, there would probably be no Before Watchman. It’s just that the belligerency between both parties reached a level too high to be recovered, to a point that DC started to do not care.

By: Will West

Will West — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:57:22 +0000

So, just like Marvel, you’ve completely forgotten his New X-Men run, huh Brian? I know he said “small press/alternative”, but you simply asked about any other than DC.

By: Brian Hibbs

Brian Hibbs — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:23:42 +0000

I’m trying to think — what US publishers has GM worked for other than DC? There’s those three issues of Spawn from the 90s, and there’s some number of issues of Vampirella from Dynamite…. but everything else I can think of (eg: Steed & Peel) was done for a UK Publisher, right, and then licensed into the US?

-B