From David Lloyd’s FB: “I’m at Kapow this weekend. I could put a link here for that, but you’ve only got to Google that event – power-wasting though that is – to go there, and I want to use a pic here to point you to what I’m proud to be previewing there – a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 21, 2011
The BBC news site looks (somewhat belatedly, it’s been going on for years after all!) at the increasingly widespread use of V For Vendetta masks by political protestors, including, interestingly, talking to V co-creator David Lloyd about their use. As it turned out David himself has been in New York just recently and took some [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 1, 2011
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Following on from yesterday’s scans of the second issue of Dez Skinn’s seminal British comic Warrior I picked up recently, here’s another look back at another then-new work which has become utterly iconic and incredibly influential, Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V For Vendetta (confession time, I actually personally rate V slightly higher than Watchmen). [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 1, 2011
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Okay, maybe not a new V For Vendetta by David Lloyd, but a really sharp bit of art by Luigi Sinis he calls V For Vendetta II (Italian Mission): From Luigi Sinis’ Facebook.
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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Good chum of the blog and ace comics radio/podcaster Alex Fitch reminds us that this weekend, Saturday 23rd, sees a special event in conjunction with SciFi London, celebrating 25 years of John Constantine, Hellblazer by bringing together four of the comics’ creators; from the description: “The panel includes the comic’s original writer, Jamie Delano, who [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 11, 2010
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Martin Eden (of Spandex) sent word of an auction/exhibition he’s involved in – called Caped Crusaid, it’s a postcard exhibition at Orbital Comics London. Featuring lots of great artists and all being auctioned for The Terrence Higgins Trust. Great art and a great cause. Auctions all end on the 15th December, so you’ve still time [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 5, 2010
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(Image found here, no artist credit. Although surely David Lloyd needs a mention somewhere?) It’s that night where we over in the UK celebrate the failed assassination of a king by Guy Fawkes and his fellow Gunpowder plotters by burning his effigy atop bonfires, setting off fireworks, and increasingly, wearing these….. Remember, remember…. V For Vendetta:
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Confused by the live debates where party leaders switched from ‘I agree with…’ to ‘get real’ depending on opinion polls, policies which are never fully explained and indeed the actual outcome of the election viz a viz who will actually be the next government (currently they are trying to decide via the medium of musical [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 23, 2009
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David Lloyd drops us a line to tell us about an interesting project he’s involved with, a new website entitled Cartoon Classroom: “I’m helping a new non-profit educational website get underway and right now I need to tell folks about what’s happening around it as easily and quickly as I can - it has the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 5, 2009
Remember, remember the fifth of November The gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, twas his intent To blow up King and Parli’ment. Three score barrels were laid below To prove old England’s overthrow. By God’s mercy he was catched With a dark [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 11, 2009
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At BICS last weekend David Lloyd and Steve Marchant officially launched the Cartoon Classroom website. The eventual aim of Cartoon Classroom is to become a one stop information centre for all professional and organisations that have a connection with comics and cartooning including galleries and exhibitions, libraries, educational establishments and any cartoonists/ comic creators who [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 30, 2009
Geek Girls Network presents it’s Top 10 Women Comic Characters. Always interesting to see these sorts of things, agree with them or not. Nice to see slightly more unusual choices with the inclusion of Judge Anderson and Jenny Sparks alongside perennials such as Tank Girl and Death. But I think there are a couple of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 25, 2009
+ (Borrowed from David S Carter’s Flickr.) Our very own interview king Pádraig Ó Méalóid set this question last week on his live journal blog (and we linked to it then) but we thought it was well worth posting here on the FPI blog as well to let more folks see it. So with Pádraig’s [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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That man Pádraig Ó Méalóid has been asking questions once more, this time instead of one of his in-depth interviews he is asking one simple question to sixteen comics professionals (including Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein, David Lloyd, Bryan Talbot, Chris Staros, Dave McKean, Garen Ewing and others) “What’s your opinion of the term ‘Graphic Novel’?” [...]
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