Grant Morrison Always Points the Comics Medium Forward Forward.
Morrison claims that Heavy Metal couldn't afford Morrison's long-time friend Frank Quitely to supply the story's artwork. Later musicians neglected to show up for one reason or another, therefore unrealizing Morrison's grand screenplay. With the page layout incorporating dotted lines along the panel allowing the reader to cut, "Dors of Perception" would have been an amazing conceptual work. Morrison says they came to see "the 9-grid would be ideal for cutting and folding," thereby enabling readers to fold panels back in ways that would allow the story to be read in a whole fresh context.
Aldous Huxley's 1954 memoir The Doors of Perception chronicles the author's early experiences with hallucinogens. Touching on many significant personalities who experimented with hallucinogens, "Dors of Perception" essentially seeks to be a compressed history of LSD in western society. With the title referencing Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception and British superstar Diana Dors, Morrison incorporates several of these real-life people into the plot itself. Morrison said the author aimed to find "the different strands of the acid experience, from the Satanic desert dark of the Doors to the Carrollian whimsy of the Beatles and Syd Barrett etc."
The Masterpiece of Writer Grant Morrison is Unreleased Comic.
Unquestionably, Grant Morrison is among the best authors in comic book history. Still, the author has created just as many ideas and scripts never seen before, in line with masterworks over years. Morrison just revealed the script of their unproduced work; their hidden masterwork could be this incredibly ambitious comic.
Morrison sent the fourteen-page comic "Dors of Perception" script via their newsletter, Xanaduum. Morrison claims that initially written for artist Frank Quitely, this suggested narrative was created while they were Editor-in-Chief of Heavy Metal.
"Dors of Perception" Might Have been Grant Morrison's Masterpiece
Morrison's wish to "recreate the feelings and cascading mental maelstrom of an LSD trip" for the story itself spans this history of LSD: "I wanted the strip itself to be tactile and interactive, so that it could alter every time you toyed with its flaps. With each crease or cutaway, the folding panels allowed whole new meanings and narratives to be created; in many cases, this was made possible by so many panels to play with, so enabling multiple readings of the story (which meant I had to make all the possible alternative readings coherent and meaningful).
Remarkably, "Dors of Perception" is still Unpublished today. Although it's unfortunate that Morrison's creative experiment stays nothing more than a concept, at least fans will be able to read the full script. Morrison writes of the writing as "about the most pyrotechnic thing I've done," but he also opens the prospect of it showing up elsewhere down the road. "I really love this one," Morrison notes. Maybe one day it will receive the treatment it so deserves. With any luck Grant Morrison's "Dors of Perception" will finally find publication.
Recently publishing an unpublished Marvel Comics story to their newsletter, Grant Morrison finally revealed the Early-Career Story After 40+ Years.
Originally meant for Heavy Metal's "Psychedelic" edition, Morrison describes their extreme approach to the tale: "I'd chosen to treat the brief seriously and write something big; the outcome was this 62-page script for a 14-page comic. My major concept was to cut and fold panels together so that they could be read in several directions.
Originally created for Frank Quitely, the script was not quite a fit for the narrative since Heavy Metal could not pay the artist. Other artists were not really suited either. With the page layout containing dotted lines along the panel for the reader to cut, Morrison says the script would have been a conceptual masterwork. Morrison says they came to see "the 9-grid would be ideal for cutting and folding," thereby enabling readers to fold panels back in ways that would allow the story to be read in a whole fresh context.
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Originally meant for Heavy Metal's "Psychedelic" edition, Morrison details their extreme approach to the narrative: "I'd chosen to treat the brief seriously and write something big; the outcome was this 62-page script for a 14-page comic. My major concept was to use cutting and folding panels together to produce something that could be read in many different ways.
Morrison claims that Heavy Metal couldn't afford Morrison's long-time friend Frank Quitely to create the story's artwork. Later musicians neglected to show up for one reason or another, therefore unrealizing Morrison's grand screenplay. With the page layout incorporating dotted lines along the panel allowing the reader to cut, "Dors of Perception" would have been an amazing conceptual work. Morrison says they came to see "the 9-grid would be ideal for cutting and folding," thereby enabling readers to fold panels back in ways that would allow the story to be read in a whole fresh context.
