Tag Archive | "V For Vendetta"

Alan Moore guest posts on the BBC site

Friday, February 10, 2012

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Our great, bearded magus Alan Moore, Albion’s Wizard in Extraordinary, is given a guest slot on the BBC site to discuss this global adoption of the V For Vendetta mask he and Dave Lloyd had the titular character wear in the comic, now sported worldwide by a variety of anti-corporate and anti-authority (or more precisely [...]

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Masks

Friday, October 21, 2011

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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 [...]

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Warrior – V For Vendetta

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). [...]

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V For Vendetta – The Italian Job?

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.

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Remember Remember….

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:

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McV for McVendetta

Friday, August 13, 2010

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Spotted outside one of the ever growing number of tartan souvenier shops in Edinburgh – did you know Codename V was Scottish? I’m sure the shopkeeps will even offer you genuine McVendetta clan tartan if you ask them. (pic from my Flickr, click for the bigger version)

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Allow me to introduce myself…

Friday, January 29, 2010

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Codename V’s wonderful display of verbal dexterity from his introduction to Evey in the film adaptation of Moore and Lloyd’s V For Vendetta, rendered in kinetic lettering. I do like this. (via Marc-Anthony Taylor’s Twitter)

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Art auction for new cartooning education site

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 [...]

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Remember, Remember…

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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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 [...]

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Top 10 Women comic characters?

Sunday, August 30, 2009

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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 [...]

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It was 20 years ago today….

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Well 21. I was recently home clearing out a load of stuff my dad left when he died early in the year and amongst the things he had kept was a little insert magazine I had written with my business partner Jim Hamilton. It was called ‘Cut Comics 88′ and we produced it for the [...]

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