Sunday 23 October 2011

From BBC news, with comment from David Lloyd:
The sinister Guy Fawkes mask made famous by the film V for Vendetta has become an emblem for anti-establishment protest groups. Who's behind them?
From New York, to London, to Sydney, to Cologne, to Bucharest, there has been a wave of protests against politicians, banks and financial institutions.
Anybody watching coverage of the demonstrations may have been struck by a repeated motif - a strangely stylised mask of Guy Fawkes with a moustache and pointy beard...(more)
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The Browser's Fivebooks guest is Ben Katchor. He picks five great pictorial narratives but I kept wanting to pick arguments with him. He spends too long arguing about a descriptive term for the books he's picking and confuses more than illumintes with his dates for printing techncalities, but go look. Toepffer, Glashan, moriarty, Panter, Blegvad. Two of those hardly ever get mentioned outside of the UK.

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Aintitcool's complete collection of Behind the scenes Pic of the day. Hundreds of them. every fim you can think of. Go look

1 Comments:

Blogger Hayley Campbell said...

Two fings.

Fing one: Someone has put a V for Vendetta mask on the lamp post outside Gosh! Comics on Berwick Street. We don't know who it was. It wasn't us. It could have been there for years. Photo.

Fing two: Michael Chabon wrote a brill essay on Katchor and you should check it out. It's in Maps & Legends.

24 October 2011 at 04:48:00 GMT-5  

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