Another Morrison book released soon... in French

Post date: May 02, 2011 8:41:51 AM

After Friday's post on the Italian Grant Morrison: All Star book, turns out there's another Morrison book on the way, this time in French. Yann Graf's Grant Morrison (R) evolutions is another weighty tome (228 pages) with a distinctly academic bent if the solicitation text is anything to go by. It'll be available 19th May and you can order it from the publishers here, or go here for an interview (in French) with the author, including a mention of this very site! Fame at last...

Here's a look a Sebastien Hayez's cover, along with a rough translation of the publisher's press release -

Grant Morrison (R) evolutions, "The Library of Mirrors - BD ", Volume 6

Yann Graf

ISBN 978-2-86183-055-7

Paperback, 17 x 21 cm

To Be Published May 19, 2011

Price: 23 €

Scottish writer Grant Morrison has become one of the most important figures in contemporary comic books and pop-culture media. For thirty years, he has alternated between personal projects (Zenith, We3, The Invisibles), reinvention of obscure characters and concepts (Animal Man, Doom Patrol, the Seven Soldiers of Victory) and reinvigorating established franchises (New X-Men, All-Star Superman and now Batman).

Morrison doesn't distinguish between his own creations and his work for hire, preferring to develop his themes in harmony and juggling approaches and points of view. The work constantly seeks to renew itself, suggesting themes of the conditioning of individuals, the nature of creation and the end of ideology. Morrison's work is so conducive to analysis as it addresses both the comic book industry and reaches far beyond, questioning the universal place of Man in the modern society of the spectacle. This monograph, detailing both complete series and failed projects, provides both a biographical journey and a thematic and formal one.

Paperback: 228 pages

Publisher: Moutons électriques (19 mai 2011)

Collection : La Bibliothèque des Miroirs

Language : Français

ISBN-10: 2361830558

ISBN-13: 978-2361830557