Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods
A contemporary comicbook legend is profiled in Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods, Patrick Meaney's first feature. The charismatic subject of this admiring portrait will intrigue [even] the previously unconverted (...).
"[T]he true rock star of comics," chrome-domed Morrison was raised in a poor Glasgow neighborhood by progressive-activist parents, channeled his misfit and exhibitionist tendencies into a local rock band, and by 17 had begun publishing comics. Though he himself draws, he has long since happily acquiesced to the superior skills of various top-flight artists interviewed here, with whom he maintains variably direct/obscure lines of communication.
(...) A practitioner of chaos magic, he claims to have had an alien abduction in Kathmandu and communications with demons, elements that have heavily colored writings in which he's occasionally appeared as a character. While Morrison has been branded a space case in some circles, such eccentricities have added to a personal mystique that complements works impressive (if sometimes near-impenetrable) for their nonlinear storytelling and abstract ideas.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Duration: 80 min
Dialogue: English
Age limit: K7
