Grant Morrison book signing at Meltdown in LA

The inimitable comic book genius Grant Morrison is coming to Meltdown in Los Angeles to speak and sign copies of his latest hardcover book, Final Crises on Wednesday, July 1st. Clive Barker will be there to have a conversation with Morrison.

It is time to weave wonder and leave mouths agape in the wake of impenetrable accents and extraordinary ideas! It is time for YOU to return to MELTDOWN, because the Scottish swami Grant Morrison is returning to grace us with his presence and give us mere cave dwellers our first bouts of intellectual fire!
Are you going to allow the microphone to be dominated with the weeping milk-tears of egg-handed fools who will simply rehash old discussions of the Talmud of Mr. Tawky Tawny or shall we look towards a brighter day to come and inquire after new scripts, songs, fashions and fabulations?
If you consider yourself a worthwhile nerd, a good geek, a fascinating fan of freak fiction, then do us a favor and start formulating your questions now so that we can extract as much information about our favorite characters and series, old and new, and even if for a moment transcend our mortal coil to a dream world of comical capes and quizzical chimpanzees.
Come complete the circle and revel in the impossible.
CLIVE BARKER will hold a brief conversation with GRANT MORRISON before the signing. Copies of Mr. Morrison’s latest literary luncheons, Final Crisis HC + Batman and Robin #1, will be on sale. That same day is the release of Batman and Robin # 2. Buy one (or 3) of these 3 books and get into the event in the Meltdown Gallery.
Sadly, no outside items will be allowed due to time constrain on the talent. But don’t despair! Refreshments and music will also be provided.

Discussion

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#1 posted by 3.14chan, June 19, 2009 12:29 AM

I'm a nerd but not much a comic nerd, but if I were in LA I would go there!

#2 posted by 13strong, June 19, 2009 3:46 AM

Presumably his accent is only impenetrable to people not from Scotland?

#3 posted by Hadessniper, June 19, 2009 4:37 AM

What's with all the bald comic book writers?

#4 posted by sammich, June 19, 2009 4:50 AM

13strong - about as impenetrable as Alan Hansen (who seems to get by on uk-wide tv just fine without subtitles)

#5 posted by devophill, June 19, 2009 4:57 AM

Maybe they meant impenetrable ideas and extraordinary accents? Because I sometimes have trouble knowing what he's on about when I'm just reading his writing.

#6 posted by Anonymous, June 19, 2009 5:19 AM

Dammit, I saw the picture, and thought he was Spider Jerusalem. I want more Transmetropolitan.

#7 posted by MoogleLally, June 19, 2009 5:24 AM

Wow, that image rips of on my bro Ben Folds' cover on his album Way To Normal: http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B001EBEBSG/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0

That, uh, that's all I had to add.

#8 posted by Ugly Canuck, June 19, 2009 5:28 AM

hadessniper: Is that the writer or Hunter S. Thompson?

As to bald heads, looky here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeRWu7WMDso

#9 posted by 13strong, June 19, 2009 5:39 AM

SAMMICH:

I would admit that Grant Morrison's weegie lilt is a little further from the Queen's English than Alan Hansen, but I get your point.

I mean, Morrison is hardly Rab C. Nesbitt, is he?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yeqSgNxiE

#10 posted by Anonymous, June 19, 2009 6:38 AM

@MoogleLally

I've seen that image kicking around for a couple of years, so I'm almost positive it predates "Way to Normal."

#11 posted by hassan-i-sabbah, June 19, 2009 7:53 AM

I think that you will find Mr Morrisons accent to be
quite precice in his phrasing,his constonants sharp with a pleasing roll to his "Rs"(snk!).
we Scots understand most accents when people speak English,Its lazy and rude to not try and do the same!
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#12 posted by error404, June 19, 2009 8:43 AM

I find it funny when people, and by that I mean Americans, can't decipher accents.

Grant Morrison is very clearly spoken. Oh he's a Weejie, there's no mistaking that, but a very clearly spoken Weejie.

Much like myself.

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#13 posted by frenchtoastkiss, June 19, 2009 9:32 AM

@#6
Haha I thought that too, and got really excited for a second!

#14 posted by devophill, June 19, 2009 3:36 PM

If you recall, in Transmetropolitan Spider Jerusalem only looks like Grant Morrison after he shaves and cuts his hair- before that he looks like Alan Moore. :)

#15 posted by doc_roswell, June 20, 2009 9:08 PM

#7, that image, by Cameron Stewart, was drawn in 2004 or 2005, for Mr. Morrison's first appearance at Meltdown (and was reproduced on the cover of ARTHUR magazine about the same time.)

#16 posted by jaybabcock, June 21, 2009 10:48 AM

#15 - Incorrect. That image was commissioned by me for the cover of Arthur Magazine No. 12, which featured a very long interview with Grant. The image concept was Grant's; the execution was Cameron's. It was re-used with our permission at Meltdown. We're all pals.

The rest of youse: Grant has been shaven-headed since...1992, maybe earlier? I'll hafta ask him...

#17 posted by jaybabcock, June 21, 2009 10:52 AM

#7: Nope. That image is taken from the September, 2004 issue of ARTHUR.

#18 posted by jaybabcock, June 21, 2009 11:02 AM

And -- a solid report on the March 2005 Grant Morrison talk/signing at Meltdown, which I attempted to moderate, haha. Good times.