I chose Grant Morrison for my project because I felt his work presented an interesting counterpoint to the concept of the outsider that we’ve focused on in our class. Rather than portraying his outsider characters as being tortured by their otherness, he uses their otherness to liberate them. Morrison is an unconventional choice, since he’s mainly written comic books, but I feel like even in his comics he has captured the essence of what good literature hopes to achieve. He writes about the struggles of finding one’s identity in a dysfunctional society and does so with a modern perspective that is enhanced by the medium of comic books rather than held back by it.
