From September 28 - 30 , Las Vegas will be the host toMorrisonCon , a three - day comics and culture convention curated by none other than author Grant Morrison . Morrison — who ’s script such acclaimed comics as The Invisibles , We3 , and Flex Mentallo — has not only assembled an telling roll of comic talent , he ’s also predict a mystical musical affaire d’honneur between Howard Hughes and Liberace “ in a duel to the decease for the soul of Las Vegas . ” ( Hopefully Liberace will also announce his own comic book series from the not bad beyond . )
And courtesy of the normal ’s organizer , here ’s an exclusive first look at the MorrisonCon panel schedule . The folks at MorrisonCon further note that A. ) the programs all take place in one room , so people do n’t have to choose between panels ; and B. ) details for signings with the creators will be apportion with ticket holders in the coming week .
FRIDAY – 9/28
9 PM
THE CON
MorrisonCon complain off in style with a new collaborative project — a one - off , never - to - be - repeated performance created especially for this event . Grant Morrison teams up with Gerard Way and James Dewees of My Chemical Romance for The Con — a thirty minute spoken - word piece with music . Part short story , part story , part occult arts ritual , as Howard Hughes faces Liberace in a affaire d’honneur to the last for the person of Las Vegas !
NINTH GEAR ENGAGE
MorrisonCon invades the Hard Rock Hotel ’s famous subterranean Body English club . This after - 60 minutes bash in the hotel ’s legendary underground private lodge feature alien DJs , dancefloor amazement , brain - film over cocktails , and even more of Grant ’s unannounced surprise extra guest personality from the humankind of comics , medicine , photographic film and beyond .
SATURDAY 9/29
9:30 AM
MORRISONCON INAUGURAL AWAKENING
MorrisonCon and it ’s sport guests roll out the welcome mat to all attendant with the Inaugural Awakening of a really rare kind of happening . Get to know the convention ’s stars and designers , learn the secrets behind the MorrisonCon Experience and tap into the enigmatical ancestry of this alone weekend - long seminar , make a connection with fellow visitant … and keep your eyes peeled to spot all the unheralded MorrisonCon surprise special guest .
10 AM
GRANT MORRISON & THE FUTURE OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
Grant Morrison is dream about the humankind of the future again , and he is not alone .
Join Grant on a transcendental journey into the future of all thing Morrison , starting with an in - depth expose and depend into what awaits us in the pages of 2012 ’s most anticipate new God Almighty - own series , HAPPY ! with Darick Robertson . Then venturing forth into tomorrow to uncover the inner works of Grant ’s collaboration with artist Chris Burnham and learn what mad hereafter lies in store for them . Travel to the unobserved and unlock the enigma of his long awaited maxi - series MULTIVERSITY , which focuses on ten undiscovered worlds in DC Comics ’ universe , discover scenes from his collaborative chapter with creative person Frank Quitely , PAX AMERICANA , for the first clock time anywhere . But where this geographic expedition into the world of Morrison projects of tomorrow will take us only Grant eff … what surprising other secrets and future collaborationism might our get host have in store for us ?
Featuring : Grant Morrison , Darick Robertson , Frank Quitely , Chris Burnham
11 AM
THE EMPTY PAGE : MORRISONCON WRITERS ON WRITING
boast : Grant Morrison , Robert Kirkman , Jonathan Hickman , Jason Aaron
NOON
MEETING OF ARTISTIC MINDS
An geographic expedition of visual communication , crossed influence , storytelling progress , graphic design , and art chronicle . creative person Jim Lee sits down with our compendium of maverick art innovators to ask the doubt only another artist would know how to necessitate and to explore these creators ’ thoughts on what ’s make out before — from Sandro Botticelli to Salvador Dalí to Jean Giraud Moebius to Jack Kirby — and to speculate on what ’s coming next in the creation of comics and beyond .
Featuring : Jim Lee , JH Williams III , Frank Quitely , Darick Robertson , Chris Burnham , Jonathan Hickman
1 PM
LUNCH
2 PM
THE SOUND OF THE ATOM SPLITTING
Music is the life blood of artistic creation . For many working in creative fields , it supply both the muse and resource lubricant that facilitate the words and the paint flow . As both instrumentalist and author , euphony is the medium as well as intake . Assembling a aggregate of fellow melodious MorrisonCon guests , we investigate the musical muse , how the creation of a narrative contour such as comics compare to the creation of musical structure , the challenges of translating musical sounds to the print Sir Frederick Handley Page , and also lecture about what albums we ’ve been rock out to recently .
Featuring : Grant Morrison , Darick Robertson , J.H. Williams III , Jimmy Urine ( Mindless Self Indulgence ) + special invitee
3 PM
CELLULOID HEROES : COMICS ’ LOVE AFFAIR WITH HOLLYWOOD
Even a casual glance at mainstream media will reveal the passionate embracement between Comics and Hollywood . Grant and his limited client will search the history of this dear affair and the controversial links between these sis industries . How must the narrative chassis be reinvented for the four - color page and for the silver gray screen ? Our invitee take an unflinching smell at the challenge of translation between mediums and uncover the possibilities for invention . Hey , Comics and Hollywood — Get a room already !
Featuring : Grant Morrison and special guests
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WE LOVE THE DEAD
Robert Kirkman has really tap into human nature ’s glowering fears and intense escapist craving with his celebrate serial , THE walk DEAD , and is leading the cultural wafture that is the zombie zeitgeist . myriad psychological studies , essay and articles have explore humanity ’s horror fascination , and here Kirkman and his fellow panelist throw further ignitor into the origins of the genre ’s attraction … and how turn over deeply into the world of tell grim tales of brat and ever - increasing suspense for years has influence their routine lives .
have : Robert Kirkman
5 PM
CREATION MYTHS : SCIENCE , RELIGION & MAGIC
Jonathan Hickman and Jason Aaron are architects of worlds of scientific discipline , magic and myth . Bringing their unique and perhaps conflicting perspective together , these two authors posture down to talk over the threshold of human understanding and beyond . Is Arthur C. Clarke ’s feeling that “ any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic ” correct ? Hickman and Aaron discuss how the theory holds up , and take an analytical journey through severe science to theoretic hypotheses to the work of the Gods . What inspirations are drawn from century of theological philosophical system and the course of scientific breakthrough and how are they be applied to modern storytelling ?
have : Jonathan Hickman , Jason Aaron
6 PM
TRIAL OF THE SUPERGODS
As daylight one comes to a close , use that last un - shoot brain cell to link up our Edgar Guest in some light-headed - hearted trivial revelry . Master of Ceremonies , James Sime , will conduct the festivities , taking our guest to task with your wiliest , wildest , or zany exam of trifle which can be pass on throughout the 24-hour interval in the MorrisonCon Salon . A thoroughgoing bit of madcap play to crest off an vivid 24-hour interval of originative energy !
Featuring : Everyone !
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COCKTAIL 60 minutes
TIME MACHINE GO
SUNDAY – 9/30
SUNDAY morn HANGOVER BREAKFAST & SKETCH JAM
Recover from Saturday ’s recent dark extravaganza and stimulate the morning - after synapses with a leisurely early meal with one of the most gifted newcomers in comedian , artist Chris Burnham . This casual down - pacing interactive hot sketch fix session boast a breakfast for all attender , a trancepop and ambient vallecula - exalt spacerock soundtrack to comfort your fried neurons , as well as Chris ’ current - of - conscious thoughts on artistry , hazy recollections from the night before , and Burnham ’s gorgeous psychedelic art created before your very eyes .
Featuring : Chris Burnham
10:30 AM
suffer INTIMATE WITH GRANT MORRISON
How does Grant deal with the force per unit area that get along with being the originative military group behind some of America ’s greatest image ? Which razor give the closest shave without damaging your scalp ? Who would win in a combat , Jimmy Olsen or Rick Jones ? Which arcane playscript , apart pic and sorry television we should be devoting our life to ? Grant has opinions about all of it . Bring your hardest , strangest , and most personal of questions for an utterly revealing school term about what Grant really thinks .
Featuring : Grant Morrison
11:30 AM
Thomas Nelson Page ONE , PANEL ONE : A COMICS WORKSHOP
Jung ’s concept of the Collective Subconscious propose that musical theme live within all of us awaiting emergence . take part in a collaborative comics workshop illustrating this theory facilitated by former Marvel talent coordinator , Bon Alimagno , in which you and some of MorrisonCon ’s guest team up up to act as adequate originative colleagues to bestow one of these apportion idea to fruition under a Creative Commons license .
Work alongside with some of the brightest minds in comics . produce springy artistic production together .
boast : Jason Aaron , J.H. Williams III , Chris Burnham , Bon Alimagno , + possibly more !
INSIDER TRADING : THE SECRETS OF comic strip byplay
Publishing practices have long been the secrets of industry ability broker . Jonathan Hickman let out insider knowledge to avail Almighty possess arriviste pilot the evolving industry landscape . Hear first hand their unflinching perspectives on possession , freelance catching , analogue and digital statistical distribution , intellectual property rights and forestall the unforeseeable .
Featuring : Jonathan Hickman
J.H. WILLIAMS III ’S SUBLIMINAL WORLD
Sometimes a cigar is n’t just a cigar . J.H. Williams III shares how he soak his art with deeply subliminal import and rap directly into our primal brainpower ’s understanding of instinctual symbols . This visual dissection of the emblematic figure of Williams ’ work will enter the doorway to a larger Jungian world where your subconscious mind experiences images . Learn how myth and symbol are the very DNA of Williams ’ gorgeous art and design .
Featuring : J.H. Williams III
FRANK QUITELY ’S unobserved WORLD OF WONDERS
peep behind the wizard ’s curtain into the enigmatical mind of artist Frank Quitely , where unearthly and wonderful worlds are shaped in an alchemical reaction from script to pen and ink . Grant Morrison and Quitely talk over their unique relationship and search the world they ’ve created together ; earth that lie just beyond the point of accumulation of mere resource .
Featuring : Frank Quitely , Grant Morrison
THE INVISIBLES AND THE PRE - APOCALYPSE
As the Mayan ’s Long Calendar come to an end on December 22 , 2012 , will the acceleration of innovation , technology , and environmental disruptions bring about a long foretold ancient Revelation of Saint John the Divine and is humanity ready for the transformations that awaits us ? Exploring The I - Ching , McKenna ’s Timewave Zero Theory , aboriginal American mythology , The Sekhmet Hypothesis and 2012 predictive technologies like Clif High and George Ure ’s Web Bot Project , Grant breaks it all down and explores , demystifies and examines what it all intend . Has his vision for this next stage of existence changed since he penned THE INVISIBLES ? What advice can he offer up for fellow prognostinauts in apocalyptical times ?
you may chew the fat the MorrisonCon website for further data .
Images : the cover art to Grant Morrison All - Star byFrancesco Biagini . Flex Mentallo / The Invisibles by Frank Quitely .
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