Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw

Rob Murray writes: The BBC reports on the appropriation by protest groups of the Guy Fawkes mask featured in V For Vendetta – designed by David Lloyd for the 1980s comic strip he co-created with Alan Moore, which was turned into a Hollywood film in 2006. You can read the article here, while elsewhere the […]

Bidder-bidder-bidder … Batman!

Comic fans have the chance to appear alongside legendary superhero Batman thanks to a fund-raising auction. This one-off opportunity is part of a sale to support the Comic Book Alliance (previously). It also includes signed comics, books and artwork from the likes of Hunt Emerson, David Lloyd, Bryan Talbot and Alan Moore among many others. The […]

Taking cartoons to the people

Cartoon Classroom, the project set up by comics artist David Lloyd, cartoon historian Paul Gravett and teacher Steve Marchant to take cartooning into schools, has seen a rise in the number of teachers and schools registering to use its services, following a letter to The Teacher magazine. However, they are always keen to take on […]

Interview with David Lloyd – II

Following our recent Q&A with him, here are the details of comic artist David Lloyd’s project, Cartoon Classroom. The plan  is  to centralize all information relating to the study of cartoon and comic strip creation in the UK. Historian Paul Gravett and teacher Steve Marchant (author of The Cartoonists’ Workshop) are also founder members of the non-for-profit service. The […]

Interview with David Lloyd – I

Bloghorn is very pleased to be able to publish an interview with David Lloyd, artist of V for Vendetta and co-founder of Cartoon Classroom, a free resource to connect artists and people who would like to learn how to draw. How do you think the Cartoon Classroom and its list of expert teachers in drawing […]

Back to school with Cartoon Classroom

Comic artist David Lloyd (of V for Vendetta fame), cartoon historian Paul Gravett and teacher Steve Marchant (author of The Cartoonists’ Workshop) have created cartoonclassroom.co.uk. They plan to to centralize all information relating to the study of cartoon and comic strip creation in the UK. The website launches officially in early October and the trio […]