David Lloyd drops us a line to say that he has posted up a couple of examples of the re-coloured artwork which will appear in the Absolute V for Vendetta, which is due from DC this summer (and not before time). Interestingly David also talks about the original colouring, dispelling the rumour that V was changed from its original black and white from Warrior to colour to suit DC when they took it on, commenting that this simply wasn’t the case and that Dick Giordano at DC offered him the choice of black and white or to go down the colour route; obviously the colour version we now know was what resulted.
“This was not a decision I made because of a blinkered interest in the greater financial rewards of gaining the widest readership – it was because I wanted the work and its message to spread as far as it could possibly go,” David Lloyd on the decision to go with a colour version of V For Vendetta.
(one of the re-coloured pages from V, borrowed from David’s site, where he appears to be happy that the colouring can now be done justice in a way that older printing techniques simply couldn’t manage originally. V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, published DC)
Mon, Apr 20, 2009
Comics and cartoons