Scottish scriptwriter Grant Morrison is one of the UK's most prolific comic writers, initially for 2000 AD, but later also for US companies like DC, Vertigo and Marvel. Together with Neil Gaiman, Peter Milligan, Jamie Delano and Alan Moore, he formed the 1980s "Brit Wave" invasion of American comics. Morrison's work is characterized for his often surrealist and symbolic writing with counter-cultural and dadaist influences.