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Interview conducted via email in March 2004. Originally printed in May in the Italian magazine Vertigo Presenta # 38 published by Magic Press.
All pictures are copyright Grant Morrison and Chris Weston.
Used with the permission of the artist.
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When did you get the original idea for The Filth? Can you also explain a little the kind of cross-fertilization you had each other during the creation of the series?
Grant Morrison first revealed to me his plans for The Filth during a titanic Tequila drinking session we enjoyed with Jim Lee, Scott Dunbier and John
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McRea at the 2000ad San Diego Comic Convention. Grant told me he had an ambition to write the weirdest comic ever seen, one specifically tailored to suit my particular style of comic-strip art. He admitted he wanted to rescue me from becoming "The New Russ Heath" (which seemed to be my fate thanks to my recent stint producing Enemy Ace and Johann's Tiger)! Grant had seen my early work for 2000 AD which was far more unusual and psychedelic in comparison to the straight-forward war stories I was currently drawing for DC. He was keen to unleash my inner demons and produce the same bizarre, disturbing imagery that made my early work like 'Canon Fodder' so distinctive.
Both Grant and I have a shared love
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from left to right: Chris Weston, smoky man and Italian artist Nicola Mari at Milanese Comics Convention Cartoomics in March 2004. Click to enlarge.
of Sixties British comic-strip characters like "The Steel Claw" & "The Spider". There was something delightfully
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