he's actually Scottish. nice find, though. there's quite a few fans of Grant's Detective run here.
Thanks for the correction.
Being Scottish explains his connection to Morrison and Quitely, who are Scottish as well.
The material I'm most familiar with is in the last 2 or 3 pages of the interview, his DC work mostly.
A few shorter stories of his I liked include his BATMAN/JUDGE DREDD, and BATMAN/DEMON: A TRAGEDY Elseworlds stories he did, certainly enhanced by some really nice artwork.
I haven't ventured much into his BATMAN and DETECTIVE series work, just sampled a few issues.
His departure from the Batman line was one of several rather lively parts of the interview:
- Q: How did your association with Batman, which lasted over ten years, come to an end?
ALAN GRANT: At midnight on a Friday, I was sent a 2-page fax by Scott Peterson, who wasn't my editor but who hated me. Basically it said, Cataclysm is selling through the roof, retailers love it (lie), readers love it (lie), everybody loves it (ditto). Halfway down page 2, after the eulogies, it suddenly switched to: "What does this mean for your
ongoing association with Batman? Well, as from next issue, you will no longer be writing the character..."
A great way to get fired after 13 years. When I finally got hold of Denny, he explained that my stories hadn't been so good for the past year or two. I asked why he, as my editor, hadn't pointed this out a year or two earlier and saved me a lot of grief? He had no reply.
I prefer the debatable explanation that it was a conspiracy between Scott Peterson, Darren Vicenzo and Jordan Gorfinkel, Denny's assistants, who disliked Doug Moench and myself, possibly for pointing out they were a bunch of lying, cheating, incompetent assholes.
Well, y'know, it's nice to see there's no hard feelings...
