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Old 12-01-2012, 09:25
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A rare TV interview with the great man from last nights C4 news.Slightly awkward moment when one of the protetsers mentions the V for Vendetta movie!

http://www.channel4.com/news/v-for-v...ehind-the-mask
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Old 12-01-2012, 11:51
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Thanks for sharing that!
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Old 13-01-2012, 14:22
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"Let me suggest two: the smiley face for the ecstasy generation in the late 80s and early 90s, and the V mask which is currently the icon of global anti-capitalist protest.

Both images have spread beneath the level of corporate dictat: neither were concocted by an advertising agency. Both were, and are, recognisable across the planet, and were communicated as memes from user to user.

More remarkably, both emerged from the work of one man - Alan Moore, a working-class Northampton comics writer with a polymath's range of references, and a really rather scary beard."

Um. Alan Moore did not invent the smiley face symbol.
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Old 15-01-2012, 23:30
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no he didn't invent it, but he did popularise it through its use in Watchmen.
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Old 15-01-2012, 23:53
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no he didn't invent it, but he did popularise it through its use in Watchmen.
Debatable. Bomb the Bass then took his variant on it, put their own spin on it and used it across a few album/single covers which got far more coverage than Watchmen at the time. Moore gave it some coverage but Bomb the Bass put it on a more visible medium.
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Old 16-01-2012, 01:46
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David Lloyd invented the mask as well, he did the artwork not Alan Moore, he wrote the story.
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