GM: Comics have always been international—one of the most influential books of my teenage years was Maurice Horn’s vast comic encyclopedia [The World Encyclopedia Of Comics], where I first learned about the art of Guido Crepax, and Diabolik, and discovered Filipino fantasy books, Japanese manga, Argentinean superheroes, and the whole panorama of world comics. But it’s been a long time since I kept up with developments, so I don’t know much about what’s going on in the global comics scene these days, I’m sorry to say. I have to confess I’m not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form. Apart from the absurdist comics like Michael Kupperman’s Tales Designed To Thrizzle and Steve Aylett’s The Caterer, I just like superhero stuff. I’ve never paid a great deal of attention to the undergrounds or the indie scene. I don’t have a bagged and boarded comic collection—there’s a heap of ancient tattered things I keep in a cupboard, collector’s items rotted to pulp by bath-time re-reads. It’s Marvel and DC comics, newspapers, and non-fiction ’round our way. I’m probably the wrong person to ask what Americans are missing out on!
— Grant Morrison | Books | A.V. Club
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