Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960) is a comic book writer. Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Morrison's first published work were Gideon Stargrave strips for Near Myths in 1978, one of the first British alternative comics. Although his work only appeared in three issues of Near Myths, he was suitably encouraged to find more comic work. This included Captain Clyde, a Captain America-type superhero based in Glasgow, for a local newspaper, plus various issues of DC Thomson's Starblazer, a science fiction version of that company's Commando title.

Morrison also wrote Zenith for 2000ad (above) and has since went on to massive popularity in the states writing Marvel's re-imagining of their most popular X-Men Title amongst many other titles.

Read Grant Morrison's biography on Wikipedia here.

Morrison's recent run on X-Men was illustrated by another Scot, Frank Quitely (Vincent Deighan). Quitely was involved in the Scottish comic Eletric Soup which featured a caricature of the Broons (long running strip in the Sunday Post). 

Read Frank Quitely's biography here. 

Cam Kennedy

Campbell ("Cam") Kennedy, following work in commercial art in his hometown of Glasgow, Kennedy went freelance and worked as an illustrator on D.C. Thomson's Commando, a well-known British war comic, between 1967 and 1972, before leaving comics altogether to become a professional fine artist.

In 1978 he was lured back to comics work again, beginning by drawing the Fighting Mann strip for Fleetway Publications' Battle comic. As Battle began to wind down, Kennedy moved across to its stablemate, the weekly sci-fi anthology comic 2000 AD. Working during the title's "Golden Era", Kennedy was instrumental in the creation of several well-known strips that continue to this day, including The VCs (written by Gerry Finley-Day, Judge Dredd (with John Wagner and Alan Grant, most notably on the "Midnight Surfer" story which reintroduced Chopper) and Rogue Trooper (again with Finley-Day). His association with the comic, which is largely produced by fellow Scotsmen, has never faltered: in 2005, Kennedy designed and produced a brand new strip, Zancudo, written by Simon Spurrier for the Judge Dredd Megazine.

In America, Kennedy established a profitable working relationship with writer Tom Veitch, producing the creator-owned Vietnam War-inspired science fiction fantasy The Light and Darkness War for Marvel Comics' Epic imprint. This led to the pair working on a Star Wars spin-off, Dark Empire, for Dark Horse Comics. Kennedy has worked on other Star Wars licensed comics, including Boba Fett stories with writer John Wagner.

For DC Comics Kennedy has worked on Lobo, Batman, Outcasts and The Spectre. For Marvel, he has illustrated the Punisher, Daredevil and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Kennedy's work has been described as gritty, energetic, chunky and raw.

Alan Grant

Alan Grant first entered the comics industry in 1967 when he became an editor for D.C. Thompson before moving to London from Dundee in 1970 to work for IPC on various romance magazines. After going back to college Grant found himself back in Dundee and living on social security. It was here that Grant met John Wagner, another former D.C. Thompson editor. Wagner was helping put together a new science fiction comic for IPC (this was 2000AD) and was unable to complete his other work because of this. Wagner asked Grant if he could help him write the Tarzan comic he was working on and this was the start of the Wagner/Grant writing partnership.

Grant was asked by Wagner to try to write a strip for Starlord, a 2000AD spin off title. This got Grant noticed within IPC and on a trip to London, Grant was introduced to Kelvin Gosnell, the then editor of 2000AD, who offered Grant an editorial position on the comic. One of Grant's first jobs was to oversee the merger of 2000AD and Tornado, an unsuccessful boys adventure comic. Grant also featured as a character in the comic in the form of ALN-1, Tharg's Scottish Robot assistant. However Grant found himself in conflict with IPC and resigned to become a freelance writer and moved on to write the occasional Future Shock and Blackhawk, the tale of a Roman soldier kidnapped by aliens.

Grant then formed his partnership with Wagner after the pair lived and worked together, with Grant contributing ideas at first before eventually co-writing Judge Dredd together. The pair would work on other popular strips for the comic including Robo-Hunter and Strontium Dog using the pseudonym T.B.Grover. Grant also worked on other people's stories changing and adding dialogue, most notably Harry Twenty on the High Rock which was written by Gerry Finley-Day. It was Judge Dredd which would be Grant's main concern for much of the 1980s. Grant and Wagner had developed the strip into the most popular in 2000AD as well as creating lengthy epic storylines such as The Apocalypse War which would bring major change for the world of Judge Dredd.

Grant was hugely prolific at this time in the 1980s. He was not only writing for 2000AD, but other IPC comics such as the revamped Eagle. By the late 1980s Grant and Wagner were about to move into the American comic market, their first title was a 12 issue mini series called Outcasts for DC Comics. Although it wasn't a success, it paved the way for the pair to write Batman in Detective Comics from issue 583. After a dozen issues Wagner left (due to Judge Dredd being optioned for a film) to leave Grant as sole writer and this left Grant to become one of the main Batman writers until the late 1990s.

The pair also created a four issue series for Epic Comics called The Last American. It is this series, as well as the Chopper storyline in Judge Dredd, which is blamed for the breakup of the Wagner/Grant partnership. The pair split strips, with Wagner keeping Judge Dredd and Grant keeping Strontium Dog and Judge Anderson. However the split didn't mean the pair never worked again, they continue to work together on special projects such as the Batman/Judge Dredd crossover Judgement on Gotham.

Alan Grant and Cam Kennedy are planning a comic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped soon.

"I would like to see an independent Scotland as I believe that all nations, regardless of how big or small, should be able to shape their own destiny and not be told what to do by a larger neighbour. However what does concern me is the SNP slogan of Independent in Europe which is an impossibility. It's like jumping over the moon. It's bad enough having a layer of numpties in Westminster without the numpties in Brussels. The problem is I have no confidence in politicians."

- Alan Grant

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