I'm reading a book called Writers on Comics Scriptwriting which features interviews with major comic book writers about their craft. (It's written by Mark Salisbury, published by Titan Books.)

One of the featured writers is Grant Morrison, who's very famous in the comics world for books such as The Invisibles, JLA, and Arkham Asylum. Anyway, in his interview, Morrison compares his early mindset to our favorite lyricist:

"Back in the eighties, when I was doing Zenith, the persona I had then was Morrissey; he slags everybody off, he's really clever; all that Oscar Wilde stuff. So I started saying cruel things about everybody else in comics. No one had ever done that before and it made me famous, but it was a horrible way to get famous. It just seemed funny but I was upsetting a lot of people, and it became a persona I had to escape from because everybody hated me."

Sounds like a bit of a compliment and a criticism to me... Morrison does call him "clever"... and from what I know, Morrissey also grew out of "slagging everybody off."

Just thought I'd add this find to your impressive collection of obscure references. :)