For me, that was the secret of the character. I didn’t have to create any intermediate product. The idea that suddenly people were paying me for my thoughts was quite good. But, I became aware of that, a few years into doing comic books.

You can think of the most absurd, ridiculous things, and then turn that into something that people want to see, and it can pay for cat food and pay the rent. MORRISON: It was like magic, the idea that you could think of something mad for Superman to do, and then people would pay you to write that down. Was there a point when you realized that you could take a love for comic books and turn it into a career, and end up working for DC Comics? The combination of superheroes and this famous legendary liar drove me towards the career that I eventually chose. He ties the donkey to what looks like a post, and the next day the snow has melted and the donkey is hanging from the steeple of the church. There was a donkey and the snow was so deep. The story was this Marvelman meets Baron Munchausen thing with these adventures. In the ‘80s, Alan Moore did a big re-envisioning of that, but back then, it was a kids’ comic. In Britain, in the ‘60s, they did this Marvelman series. What was the first comic book that you read? I was sitting with the actor and I was treating him like he was this international mutant terrorist because he was so utterly believable as that man. That was the only experience I’ve had with a character that I’ve worked on. I always heard his voice when I was writing that character, and then I met him and it was like I was talking to Magneto. MORRISON: The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the X-Men movies. Have you ever met one of the actors who played a character that you’ve written for? It doesn’t seem to fit what you’re actually doing in real life, when you’re just sitting in a room with your cat and working. So yes, it is pretty weird, but weird in different ways from what you might think. I don’t want anyone to know who I am, but they do. But right now, I would just rather disappear. I brought some of that over into the comics, when I was in my 20's and 30's, and I played that a little bit, so some of it stuck. When I was young, I was in bands and I wanted to be a rock star, at one point. Being a writer is just about being in that room, working. If you go online, most of what you get is just people calling you names.

Back home, you’re just at home with a computer. GRANT MORRISON: The thing is, you don’t really feel it.

Collider: Most writers sit at home at a laptop and nobody ever knows who they are, but when you write comic books, you become a rock star when you go to things like Comic-Con or your own MorrisonCon.

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