Tag Archive | "V For Vendetta"

Remember Remember….

Friday, November 5, 2010

Comments Off

(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...

McV for McVendetta

Friday, August 13, 2010

Comments Off

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)

Continue reading...

Allow me to introduce myself…

Friday, January 29, 2010

Comments Off

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)

Continue reading...

Art auction for new cartooning education site

Monday, November 23, 2009

Comments Off

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...

Remember, Remember…

Thursday, November 5, 2009

4 Comments

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...

Top 10 Women comic characters?

Sunday, August 30, 2009

6 Comments

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...

It was 20 years ago today….

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

7 Comments

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 [...]

Continue reading...