Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Entrevista Patrícia Breccia sobre su padre Alberto Breccia y sus trabajos - Spanish

El maestro Alberto Breccia


Patricia Breccia cuando era niña

01 

Tu padre ha nacido después de la primera guerra mundial en 1919 y en un país pequeño llamado Uruguai y despues ha ido com su familia para Buenos Aires em Argentina.
El hablaba mucho de sus origens y de como ellas han influenciado su trabajo? 



Asi es, Mi padre nacio en Uruguay, en Pocitos, y vino a  la Argentina siendo muy pequeño. El amaba al Uruguay, de hecho, nunca quiso nacionalizarse Argentino.
Sobre la influencia en su trabajo, no sé si la ha tenido, porque sus verdadera crianza, y sus vivencias,las tuvo luego aquí, y en su barrio de la infancia, Mataderos. Barrio de guapos y cuchilleros, que visitó hasta pocos meses antes de su muerte.

02 

Recuerdo de quando era niño ter leido algo del personaje Ernie Pike dibujado por tu padre en 1959, Mort Cinder en 1964, Che en 1968, asi como El Eternauta en 1969 y Evita en año seguinte, todos con guión de Hector Oesterheld en revistas que leia oriundas de España.
Podrias nos decir la cumplicidad que estos gênios tenian y se sus origines y la política Argentina les ha influenciando tambien en estas obras maestras.
En estas obras los dibujos de tu padre eran magistrales.








Creo que dibujó muy pocas de Ernie Pike
El verdadero comienzo con Oesterheld vino con "Sherlock Time", que lo dibujó, para "Hora Cero" en 1958.


La primer vez que ellos se conocieron,  fue en el año 55, en una fiesta que dió el tano Pratt en su casa. 
Luego vinieron las reuniones en mi casa de Haedo, o , en la época en que estaban pergeñando "Mort Cinder" en un conocido restaurante, de la histórica calle Corrientes,  que se llamaba "El palacio de las papas fritas". 
Ambos se admiraban mucho, por supuesto...pero no llegaron a ser muy  amigos, quiero decir,no existía ésa complicidad extrema que puede haber entre dos amigos...
En los guiones de Héctor siempre existió un trasfondo social..claro. 
Y en sus últimas historias, el tinte político ya era evidente.
En cuanto al dibujo de mi padre, sí, estamos de acuerdo, eran magistrales.
 
03

En los años 90, quando ya era un poco mayor, he visto la genialidade de tu padre con adaptaciones literárias de Lovecraft en 1974, de Edgar Allan Poe en 1974, algunas con guión de Carlos Trillo.
Puedes nos decir un poco la técnica que tu padre ha utilizado para crear estas obras maestras? 



Cuando dibujó el Lovecraft, con adaptaciones de Norberto Buscaglia, (en ése momento, su yerno, ya que era el marido de mi hermana Cristina) mi padre utilizó aguadas, monocopia, collage, y tinta china. 
También hay páginas donde dejo solamente el lápiz, nada mas.
Si mal no recuerdo, algunas adaptaciones de Poe, son a color. 
Ahí utilizaba acrílico.
En cambio cuando realizó su adaptación de "El corazón delator" , Utilizó solo blanco y negro puro,  jugó con la repetición de los cuadritos, y eliminó todo lo innecesario de la historia, lo que el consideraba que molestaba para la narración. 
Dejó solamente los personajes.
La victima, el victimario, y la policía,(que son tres tipos iguales) a los que les sacó hasta los ojos. Porque, según decía,  la Ley no tiene cara.


04 

En 1981 tu padre ha hecho muchas adaptaciones literárias de Papini, Jean Ray, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lafcadio hearn y en esto mismo año ha hecho su version de los cuentas de los hermanos Grimm, me acuerdo de todas estas histórias en color.
 Le gustaba a tu padre el sobrenatural y por eso ha metido color en estas historietas para ellas crear calafrios en el público con la estética particular de tu padre? 



Bueno, a el le gustaban mucho las narraciones fantásticas, y sombrías, claro. pero no creo que haya utilizado el color para provocar escalofríos, para nada. Creo mas bien que lo utilizó porque consideró que la historia así lo exigía.O porque tenía ganas de meterles color, simplemente... 
Para él, cada historia,y la página en blanco, era un desafío que debía resolver.

05

Tu padre ha trabajado mucho con Carlos Trillo en los 70 y 80 en histórias cortas y numa história para mi encantadora llamada "Buscavidas".
Poderia nos dicer lo que miraba tu padre en la vida, te pergunto esto por esta história me ha marcado mucho.

En el "Buscavidas" mi padre trató de dibujar, en ésas pequeñas historias cotidianas,y muchas veces disparatadas y fantásticas, la vida, a veces miserable, que transcurría en ésos barrios de cielos bajos..
los suburbios de su infancia.
Obviamente, al ser las historias un tanto grotescas, el dibujo no podía ser realista, así  que tuvo que  modificar su técnica, y transformar también su dibujo, en algo mas expresionista y grotesco, utilizando elementos no convencionales para expresarse mejor.

06

La obra maestra Perramus con guión de Juan Sasturain hecha en 1983 era um poco distinta de las otras anteriores en termos gráficos (una completa barbaridad).
Piensas que esta obra tambien tien influências del estado político dado que Argentina ha pasado de una ditadura para uma democracia.
Le gustaba a tu padre los temas políticos tambien? 


En "Perramus" utilizó también la monocopia, el collage,  y las aguadas...
Es una historieta hecha a base de grises. Sí, existe un claro tinte político en el guión de Sasturain, por supuesto, pero si me preguntas si a mi padre le interesaba la política, te digo que no. No en el sentido estricto de la palabra...para él, los políticos , tanto de derecha,de centro, o de izquierda, eran igual de delincuentes y mentirosos, y bajo todas las políticas de gobierno, los pobres seguían siendo pobres, los chicos seguían muriéndose de hambre, y la miseria no menguaba. 
Era un hombre sensible, que lo conmovían las injusticias, por eso mismo, descreía de los políticos...y tenía razón.

07
Tu padre ha hecho algunas obras en 1991 como Informe sobre ciegos (1991), baseada em uma obra de Ernesto Sabato.
Historias con moraleja (1991): "El otro yo del Dr. Jekyll", "El guapo, la muerte y el tango"
Vários acrílicos que foram utilizados para o filme El viaje, dirigido por Pino Solanas (1991).
El Dorado, el delirio de Lope de Aguirre (1992), guion de Carlos Albiac.
Martín Fierro, de José Hernández, Doedytores (2004). Ilustrações feitas em 1991.
Y en 1993 han sido publicadas tambien versiones literárias como  de escritores mui famosos de América Latina como el Argentino José Luís Borges, el uruguayo Juan Carlos Onetti, el mexicano Juan Rolfo, el Cubano Alejo Carpentier, el colombiano Gabriel Garcia Marquez y el Brasileño João Guimarães Rosa.
Era tu padre un aficionado tambien de los clássicos de literatura de America Latina? 




Mi padre era un gran lector,y un tipo de una enorme cultura (en mi casa de Haedo había mas de 4.000  libros tapizando las paredes del estudio, hasta el techo, y en cada habitación, que no eran pocas... 
me preguntabas si era un aficionado de los clásicos de la  Literatura Latinoamericana...? 
por supuesto que sí. 
Te lo respondo con lo que te  escribí mas arriba.

08 
Tu padre era amigo de artistas como Hugo Pratt, José Muñoz (y ha hecho algunos trabajos con estos dos) y muchos otros y el ha creado una escuela de arte en Argentina.
Nos puedes hablar de esta misma escola? 

Alberto Breccia con José Muñoz 


Alberto Breccia en el instituto de directores de Arte


Así es. La Escuela se llamaba "IDA" (instituto de directores de Arte) la fundó con otros socios.(Soule, Pereyra, Borisoff, Spagnuolo) poco tiempo después de la muerte de mi madre. 
El enseñaba Historieta e ilustración.
Bueno, era un instituto hermoso... 
lo visitaba mucha gente de la cultura, también, ya que además, contaba con una cinemateca muy importante, (la de Rodríguez Jurado)  también había teatro, y otro montón de actividades culturales. Dos o tres veces, fué J.L. Borges a dar conferencias, Manuel Mujica Lainez, Sábato,etc. 
Había conciertos de tango, peñas de escritores, pintores, exposiciones, presentaciones de libros... 
Así que imaginate el nivel artístico y cultural del que estamos hablando, no? Una maravilla.


09
Se que tu, tambien eres artista gráfica y me encanta tu obra, piensas que la arte puede venir de una forma genética o ha sido solo por mirares las obras de tu padre que te has influenciado asi como tu hermana Cristina y tu hermano Enrique

Cristina, Patricia y Enrique Breccia 


Trabajo artistico de Patricia Breccia en homenaje al personaje Valentina de Guido Crepax que ha sido enseñado en exposiciones en Portugal, Finlandia y Estados Unidos da América con mas de 100 artistas internacionales (que también hicieron homenajes a Valentina) con mi curadoria y que ha sido tambien publicado en la editora norte americana Fantagraphics (tambien com otros artistas mundiales) en libros limitados de homenaje a Crepax organizados por mi devido a la publicacion a nível mondial de la coleccion completa de Crepax (también organizada y editada por mi) 


Página de Patricia Breccia 

Página de Cristina Breccia

Pagina de Enrique Breccia

Yo creo que el gusto y la facilidad por el dibujo, en nuestra familia, es algo genético. 
Porque mi abuelo tambien dibujaba, y mi tío Humberto (el hermano mayor de mi padre) hasta llegó a publicar alguna que otra historieta, y tengo entendido que había otros familiares (algunos tíos de mi padre) que también dibujaban, pero no de manera profesional. 
Pero por supuesto que crecer en una familia donde veíamos a un padre que dibujaba todo el día, agudizó el amor por esta profesión, desde ya.  
Entonces, la publicación, luego, vino de forma natural.

10
Poderias nos decir como era tu padre como jefe de una família y como persona? 


Mi padre fue un hombre cálido, sencillo, con un enorme sentido del humor, de un humor tan inteligente...(cómo nos reíamos con él !!! ) muy tierno y protector (pero nada invasivo) Imaginate que quedo´viudo siendo todavía  joven, y tuvo que hacerse cargo de la crianza de tres hijos chicos, al menos yo era muy chica todavía. 
Enrique y mi hermana, dos adolescentes. 
No fue nada fácil esa etapa, había mucha tristeza en mi casa, y él supo salir adelante , y sacarnos adelante, cómo pudo, pero lo hizo de la mejor manera. Fue una persona maravillosa, muy sabia.


11
Cómo ha sido para ti cresceres en Argentina con un ícono de los tebeos como tu padre? 

Patricia Breccia en niña

Bueno, siempre supe, desde que tomé conciencia de lo que representaba la historieta como género, y sobre todo en la Argentina, que mi padre era uno de los mejores, (sino el mejor) Al principio era tan natural para mi tener un padre dibujante, como era tener un padre doctor, para alguna de mis amigas...
pero, con el tiempo, me di cuenta que ser la hija de Breccia podía ser algo maravilloso, y difícil al mismo tiempo... porque mi padre era extremadamente admirado, respetado y querido,(por un lado), pero denostado muchas veces, por parte de la mediocridad que existe en cualquier ambiente.

12 
piensas que la obra de tu padre esta bien editada y publicada o piensas que se poderian hacer nuevos libros dedicados al genio que ha sido tu padre? 

Bueno, yo pienso que la obra de mi padre merece más publicaciones, y en ediciones de lujo. Hay publicaciones lindísimas, y maravillosamente editadas, pero mi deseo, y el de mis hermanos, es ver su obra, como a él le gustaría verla.

Interview to Danijel Zezelj about his works and upcoming release of portuguese edition of "Luna Park" - Levoir


01
Manuel Santo: You're a graphic novelist, animator and illustrator born In Croatia with a singular and original art technique. 
Can you tell us what is the raw material that you use while doing your artworks? 

Danijel Zezelj 
My technique for drawing comics and most of the illustrations is black ink and white acrylic on a heavy paper. I use brushes of various sizes and sometimes sponge, and originals are around A3 size. 
For big paintings I use acrylic paint on wood, and often use small rollers as well as brushes. 
The sizes are anywhere from 50 x 70 cm to 300 x 150 cm.

02
You're quite popular in Italy published by Grifo Edizioni and other publishing houses, also in France by Mosquito and for U.S.A for DC, Image, Marvel among others.
Do you feel yourself as a complete and recognized artist in the world? 

I don’t see myself as widely recognized and I definitely do not feel as if my learning and exploring has been completed. 
There are many techniques of visual storytelling and painting that I still want to dive in.
It’s the necessity of communication, of connecting to others, that triggers the creativity, and I hope to keep communicating. 

03
In ritmo del cuore published by Grifo Edizioni In 1993  Federico Fellini made an introduction to your book. 
I find it fascinating your work being acknowledged by one of the best movie directors ever. 
What drove Fellini to write an introduction to this book? 


Federico Fellini was part of the creative team behind the magazine Il Grifo, and he really liked the comics I sent to the Grifo publisher at the time. 
I actually didn’t even know that Fellini has seen my work, but when my first graphic novel "Il ritmo del cuore" was about to be published as a hardcover book, Vincenzo Mollica, one of the publishing directors at the time, told me that Fellini wanted to write a few introductory sentences. Which was an immense honor.


I grew up with Fellini’s films, and Amarcord is still one of my favorite movies ever.




04
In 1998, you made a literary adaptation of "The Plague" by Algerien Writer Albert Camus and In 2000 a book about russian Writer Vladimir Mayakovsky
What sort of influence their writings have on your work?



I read a lot and constantly, i find huge power and inspiration in good writing. 
Writers are lost souls, lonely warriors, they create worlds out of dead letters, I can relate to their despairs and hopes. 
Right now I’m working on a wide series of portraits of writers which I hope to eventually collect as a book and an exhibition. The  working title is The Savage Detectives (an homage to Roberto Bolano).



05
In 2004, you made a book called "small hands" as a sort of homage about American musician Thelonious Monk. Can you tell us something about the Impact of the music In your work as well? 


Music is another important inspiration for me and Small Hands was an attempt to capture the feel of Monk's creativity, and the way he used the time, the rhythm, the pause, the silence, in his music. He was also a peculiar character, verbally almost incomprehensable, but his composing and piano playing shines with sharp intelligence and sensitivity and deep understanding of the time and space, and human condition. Monk’s music was a complete and authentic language. Graphic novel Small Hands is not at all a Monk’s biography but an attempt to tell the story through the use of syncopation, silence, different time levels, bending the traditional narrative line. 

06
In 2001, you made the art work for Corinthian-Death in Venice published by DC Comics/Vertigo, USA , written by Darko Macan, that was a spin off of Neil Gaiman's Sandman
How did you feel drawing this fascinating character from Sandman's universe? 


Corinthian is one of the darkest Sandman characters, and Macan did great job creating the story set in Venice and exploiting the ambiguity of Corinthian. And Venice, as an old fascinating sinking metropolis was a perfect background for his diabolical decadence.

07
In the same year you also did artwork for EL DIABLO, written by Brian Azzarello, DC Comics/Vertigo, USA, 2001.
What can you tell us about this work.


El Diablo is still one of my favorite graphic novels. It is a traditional western story with a modern twist and Azzarello made a powerful remake of an old DC character which he resurrected in his very own original way. Azzarello is always fresh, provocative and smart, and one of the greatest dialogue writers in today’s literature.


08
In 2015, you started working for Image Comics in a series called Starve with American Writer Brian Wood. What made you do this series with Brian



Brian Wood and I wanted to do an original series for a long time, and as Brian sent me few proposals the one I liked the most was the story about a desperate, wild, aging, self-distructive chef Gavin Cruikshank.
So we started a 10-episode series Starve. Story also explores the excessive power of the modern media, the collapsing social structure, vulgarity of reality television and social media, all of it mixed with some extreme cooking. 
It’s been a long journey (212 pages) but I’m really proud of the final result and I hope it will get published in countries besides USA.


09
Industrial, Babylon and your version of french Writer Charles Perrault "Red Riding Hood" are masterpieces in my opinion and were published in Italy, France and Croatia from 2012 to 2015. 
The silence in it is a scream. How was it for you working in these graphic novels? 




Industrial, Babylon and The Red Riding Hood (entitled The Forest) are all wordless graphic novels. 
In part they are a homage to the tradition of wordless graphic novel which started with authors like Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward in 1920-is. 
But it was my desire to tell stories without words that triggered work on those books. 
I do find combination of words and images fascinating, but the absence of words opens up another dimension of storytelling, the focus on the visuals creates an unique rhythm of the storytelling. 
These books are a sort of a trilogy, connected with the absence of text but mainly with the exploration of individual destinies in the post-industrial world.
Red Riding Hood is one of the oldest european folk stories and Charles Perrault just copied it and polished it to make it nicer and more acceptable to moral standards of the time. However, the story is deeply embedded into the texture of western culture and morality (as every myth is) and I always wanted to do my own interpretation of it.

10
You also did several animations from 2010 to 2015. 
What's the difference in your opinion creating something in movement like they're compared to a graphic novel that is a static artform? 


I did four short animation movies so far and right now i’m working on the fifth one. Big inspiration for me were animations by William Kentridge and seeing them triggered an impulse to try to create a story in a similar technique. 
So far I experimented with a couple of animation techniques but in every case the difference from the graphic novel’s narrative language is big because animation uses time as a primary element of storytelling, as well as the movement and sound. The creative process it’s long and it requires huge amount of patience and concentration, and I find it way too slow and tedious. But when successful, the final impact is immense.


11
In 2009, you did artwork for Luna Park with Writer Kevin Baker that's was published by DC Vertigo and will be published later this year In Portuguese.
What can portuguese fans expect from this particular Graphic Novel? 


Readers can expect a dense and multi-layered story, a trip through several cultures and time periods, a contemplation on the continuity of political disasters through the history. As Kevin said at one point, the Luna Park, in part, is about never learning from our mistakes.


12
As an artist and a person, your life seems divided in several countries such as your birth country Croatia, Italy, France and the U.S.A. 
Do you consider yourself not only a Croatian artist but a citizen of the world? 


I never considered myself as only Croatian artist, and I don’t think that creativity and art could or should be confined within the national borders. 
I spent half of my life living in England, Italy and USA, and I owe as much to all those places as I owe to books, paintings, movies, graphic novels, music… that I came across. 
And I owe the most to people and friends I met and worked and lived with. 
There is a common thread connecting all of us humans, and that is not some poetic illusion but a very concrete and necessary connection. We are social animals and the time is what binds us as much as a space. We all share two fundamental facts: love and death. 
Sometimes you turn love into hate but that only means that you are dead before your time is up. But you cannot escape love or death. 


13
What's your vision of comic book artform, do you think that it will collapse with digital comics and all this new technology available In the XXI century? 


It will not collapse. As long as there is one girl or guy creating a good graphic novel it will not collapse. 
Nothing good dies. 


14
Can you tell us about future projects that you're working on? 


Right now I’m working on a 10-minute animation movie based on the story of my latest graphic novel The Forest (The Red Riding Hood). I have to finish it by September. 
There are also two graphic novels I’m preparing, one based on a short movie script entitled The Fagots, and the other would be a wordless graphic novel based on Kafka
There are also few upcoming Live Painting + Live Music performances in Italy and an exhibition in Bruxelles.

Monday, June 13, 2016

Interview to David Lloyd about the Portuguese Edition "V for Vendetta" - Levoir


A small intro.
The night was cold and it did rain a bit.
 I remember being with David at Beja - Portugal in 2014 during a comic book festival, while curating and organizing an exhibition dedicated to Italian maestro Guido Crepax with several of his originals and that later in 2016, I should be talking with him to a live audience about his masterpiece "V for Vendetta" written by British genius Alan Moore in Lisbon to promote it as the first book of a graphic novels collections, but a lightning train passed on my mind while somebody was telling me that I should pay my own trip, food and stay from Porto to Lisbon and this buzz on my head while I was doing a work, blured my vision of that event.


 I knew that I wanted to help doing a definitive book edition of "V" and all that it stands for since it was first published in Warrior magazine.
 David was willing to help me and receptive to the idea, the publishers were not because it would give a bit more work than the usual copy and paste from other "V for Vendetta" worldwide published book editions, being myself a simple guy and not an "illuminati", I quit this work.


I also knew that David drew for me an exclusive artwork for the Portuguese book edition with "V" and "Evey" to be published in it, but once again, the publisher rejected it, because of the trouble of inserting in this book edition an artwork by the artist who created visuals for it, maybe (perhaps, maybe), Alan Moore could also provide an intro for this edition but at that time, I knew that maybe/perhaps/whatever, that the publisher wouldn't publish it because of the work that this would take by inserting extra pages on this book edition.
 So, I lighted a cigarette and forget about everything that this editor/publisher was saying to me while thinking that David also drew an artwork based on John Constantine's Hellblazer for me, just because he also worked on some issues of it with British writers Jamie Delano and Grant Morrison.





 Below is my coffeeshop interview with written words in the company of David Lloyd himself.

01
You did visual art for a masked vigilante named Night Raven in March 1979 for Marvel UK with British artist Steve Parkhouse, I remember reading about it and that he was a sort of inspiration to V.
What can you tell us about this? 


David Lloyd: As it turned out, my visuals were bent to their idea of how the character should look, not mine - but nevertheless it proved successful and brought me a following.  It was a precursor to V because when the editor set up his own magazine later, he asked me to create a similar type of character to Night Raven, and V was the result.

02
The character V created by you and Alan Moore appeared first In issue 1 of Warrior March 1982 magazine edited by Dez Skinn in chapters in black and white and ran monthly until number 27 from April 1996.




Being later serialized and finished by you along Alan Moore by DC comics in color from September 1988 to May 1989 in 10 comic book issues.
 Did you and Alan knew at the time that it could be a sucess among comic book readers in a though period such as the Cold War and with Margaret Thatcher as British Prime Minister? 


David Lloyd: We never thought there was any doubt - we knew we were doing something that was more than just an adventure and had important things to say, but we also knew that the readers were liable to respond positively to it because most comic readers here in the UK at the time were very welcoming to the apocalyptic subject matter that we dealing with in V.  And we knew we were doing a good job with it.

03
With several references in this book, like George Orwell's masterpiece "1984", David Bowie among many others, was it difficult for you both to mention references while creating something new as well? 

David Lloyd: I'm not aware we mentioned Orwell or David Bowie in V - I'll check!
V was influenced and inspired by lots of things, many of which we detailed in an article describing its genesis in the middle of the story's run.  Referring to other works directly in the body of any creation is just a way to add relevant ingredients to the mix that might be necessary to your intention.  I can't imagine a situation in which you'd want to do it if it was liable to make creativity difficult.

04
One of the things that made me curious with this masterpiece was the main character being linked with number 5 and the letter V, that clearly stands for the message that the book tries to give us. Evey's character was also a derivation of the main character name V.

David Lloyd: You'd have to ask Alan about the idea of using all the different meanings of V. He just thought that up out of his usual genius.  But you're wrong about Evey. V is a blend of two unsold stories that both myself and Alan had created separately years before V, which were both, coincidentally, about urban guerillas fighting a fascist dictatorship in a future England. Mine was about a female resistance fighter called Evelina Falconbridge.  That's where the name Evey comes from.

05
Did you planned to portray Evey as a sort of a derivation also in terms of personality comparing her to V

David Lloyd: Well, for me, Evey represents society - the people. 
She begins cowed and afraid and grows in knowledge and strength as V molds her, which is what V attempts to do with the corrupted population in order to make them fight for a better and more honourable existence.

06
I remember In 1984, David J and Kevin Haskins, that were members of Bauhaus music band, doing a soundtrack for this book with the song written by Moore "This Vicious Cabaret" with a cover drawn by you.


 know that they are from Northampton as Alan is and they worked before together in 1983 Sinister Ducks EP, under a pseudonym named Translucia baboon with a Kevin O'Neill cover


and that Alan also wrote a preface for their 1981 "Mask" album under the pseudonym Brilburn Logue.


07
I remember talking personally with Peter Murphy in early 90's before a concert, while he was promoting his album "Cascade" and he told me that he loved "V for Vendetta" then.


Did you liked seeing this soundtrack with such known musicians, then? 

David Lloyd: I didn't knew any of those guys or any of that music.  David J was a nice guy, and his music for V was appropriately Weill-like, and yes, it was great to see V evolve into these areas.  We were always trying to extend V into other areas at that time - trying to interest tv and film companies in doing a version.


08
Another thing that I remember seeing in the ten DC comic book issues was that you made  amazing splash pages that never appeared in the normal TPB Edition of this masterpiece and that I also haven't seen collected the Warrior covers that had V on them and that also the covers of the issues were really small in the TPB.
 Do you think that you would have loved seeing a proper gallery with all these covers in a normal format page in a TPB Edition? 

David Lloyd: By 'splash pages' if you mean the bridging pages between chapters in the miniseries, they're in the Absolute Edition.  





Would be nice to see the covers well printed again, but, I'm more interested in the story.  A cover's made to interest and attract, but the play's the thing.  Btw the Warrior covers, apart from one that was partly done by me, weren't done by me, though I've been mis-credited with them.

09
I've watched 2005 "V for Vendetta" movie directed by James Mcteigue and I liked it, knowing that I can't compare it with the book since they're two different art forms, one that has movement and another that is static.
 Was it good for you seeing the book adapted into a major picture with known actors such as John Hurt (that interpreted Big Brother in it, after being the main character named Winston from the movie masterpiece "1984" directed by Michael Radford released in 1984 and that was based on George Orwell's masterpiece book, being first published in 1949 with the same title in which Winston was against Big Brother in it)


Natalie Portman as "Evey" and Hugo Weaving as "V"?


David Lloyd: Yes, they made a good movie of it, though, as you say, it's a different version.


10
What have you felt while working with Alan Moore in this masterpiece? 

David Lloyd: Very happy.  Except to say that the best time on it were the early days when we were doing just 6-8 pages every month, and we were basically making it up as we went along, with time to think and experiment more.  When it was completed for DC, Alan wrote the final 3 issues in one chunk and it was a different experience to work on it.

11
The "V" mask stood as a strong influence In this century due to the anonymous movement.
 Was it strange for you to start seeing "V's" mask in the news all over the world with common people trying to make political statements with it? 


David Lloyd: Not strange - heartening and satisfying. To see it represent in many ways, and many places, in the real world what it represents in the book - a symbol of standing up against oppressive authority, or a perceived tyranny of some kind.

12
You visited Portugal several times, what is your opinion about our country?

David Lloyd: Oh, I like what I've seen, but I've not seen enough of it for long enough to form an opinion!

13
Are you happy with an upcoming "V for Vendetta" Portuguese book edition?

David Lloyd: Of course. 

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Can you tell something to Portuguese fans about your personal interests in comics? 

David Lloyd: My main interest is in what I'm doing now - publishing Aces Weekly, an exclusively digital comic art anthology, which I suggest everyone check out at www.acesweekly.co.uk.

Many thanks David 







Sequential love story/arts project - Part 135 - International artists

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