Legendary comic book creator Grant Morrison recently revealed the steps of their creative process, describing in a post on Substack how they draw a "thumbnail sketch" of each comic page before writing, focusing on exciting visuals and sequential storytelling before generating dialogue and captions. This dive into the earliest stages of Grant Morrison's creative process is an awesome resource for anyone interested in the composition of comic book stories; Morrison's work has been franchise defining and genre-defying for decades, making it a thrill to observe how it all comes together. Morrison shared first-draft sketches from The Invisibles #1, the debut issue of what is arguably Morrison's ultimate masterwork, which strongly correspond to the final, published version.

Grant Morrison is easily one of the greatest writers in the history of the comic book medium, and the iconic creator recently shared their process in creating comics. From early works like Animal Man and Doom Patrol,...