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C for Coloring

04/21/2009 8:02 am by The Beat

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Over at his blog, David Lloyd talks about the coloring on V FOR VENDETTA:

In my view, what had prompted Dick to offer me that choice between colour and b/w from the high position he occupied in a company which was built on colour comics, was the remarkable success of some of the b/w indie books of the time, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which sold massively despite being in monotone. I thought then that this development in comic-reader habits was a detour, not a new highway, and I was convinced that Vendetta could be coloured appropriately and effectively in its new incarnation. Printing didn’t always do it’s best in representing the skill that Steve Whitaker and Siobhan Dodds – V’s major colourists – applied to the work, but that’s another long story. For those interested, I can tell you that the definitive colour balances in V were applied to the hardback version of the collection in 2006 and are now also seen in the latest softcovers. And, of course, they will appear in the Absolute edition.

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  1. Ralph Mathieu says

    04/21/2009 11:06 am at 11:06 am

    While the above piece of art is beautifully colored and V For Vendetta’s coloring wasn’t horrible and I can appreciate David Lloyd’s reasons for deciding on V being in color would give it a larger audience, I still would have loved to own an over-sized edition that was in black and white.

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  2. BobH says

    04/21/2009 5:37 pm at 5:37 pm

    Yeah, while I don’t mind the colour, at least now that it’s been improved from the pitifully printed 1980s version, I was really hoping when I first heard they were doing ABSOLUTE V that it would be a two-volume thing with an edition done in black and white. I’d probably have bought that. Just oversized and with the interstitial pages restored, not so much.

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