New Italian Morrison book - Grant Morrison: All Star

Post date: Apr 29, 2011 9:22:21 PM

Premiered at the Lucca Comics and Games convention in late 2010, Antonio Solinas, Giovanni Agozzino and Nicola Peruzzi's Grant Morrison: All Star features a career overview from the earliest indies right up to date, extensive interviews with Grant and many of his artistic collaborators (Quitely, Troug, Yeowell etc.) and much more. If you fancy testing your Italian language skills you can buy a copy here

Solinas, Agozzino and Peruzzi also have an All Star Grant Morrison blog here, kind of like this place but designed by someone who knows what they're doing and updated regularly... If everybody spoke Italian I think I'd be better leaving it to those guys :)

If there's any justice in the world there'll be an English version on the way soon. But to tide us over for now here's Francesco Biagini's frankly amazing cover (and yes, that is Hitler standing next to Seven Soldiers' Frankenstein at the back!) acompanied by the official English press release -

"Grant Morrison: All Star is the first book to try and provide a critical analysis of the entire career of Scottish writer Grant Morrison, one of the most important innovators in the comic medium ever.

The book, which aims to fill an evident void in comics criticism worldwide, is going to be published by Italian publisher Double Shot, making its debut at the Lucca Comics & Games 2010 convention beginning at the end of October, the most important Italian comic convention.

Written by Giovanni Agozzino, Nicola Peruzzi and Antonio Solinas, three of the biggest Morrison experts in Italy, the book covers the writer’s career span, from the “independent” beginnings to the latest major exploits, such as Batman & Robin and Joe The Barbarian, putting particular emphasis on the appraisal of early Morrison comics as well as the essential The Invisibles saga. The book cover features new art by rising star Francesco Biagini (Dingo, Dead Run - Boom! Studios, Terra Inferno - Soleil), an introduction by BAO’s Michele Foschini and it includes in-depth interviews to key collaborators such as Frank Quitely, Chaz Truog, Steve Yeowell, Richard Case, Chris Weston, Paul Grist, Rian Hughes, Steve Parkhouse, Frazer Irving and more, as well as an extensive gallery of unpublished and rare artwork from Morrison’s most important comics.

The book, whose price is set at 20 euros for a whopping 320 pages, also includes a chapter on the writer’s extra-comics work, a thorough Morrison bibliography, the comic The House of Heart’s Desire, which represents the first “Barbelith” appearance (so far unpublished in Italy), and an extensive interview with Grant Morrison, covering all the most important themes and topics in his work.

An English edition is likely in the near future."