HAVING recently finished rereading The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and watching the DVD of the excellent film version by Peter Jackson, I got to mulling over the idea of an all-seeing eye. Sauron’s eye (© MMVII New Line Productions, Inc. Source: Lordoftherings.net) In the book, and in the movie, it is the personification of […]
v for vendetta
Getting graphic about rights
By N Shashi KalaGraphic novel cover for V For VendettaTHE first graphic novel I ever read was V for Vendetta by Alan Moore. This seminal work was first collected and published in this format in the late 1980s by DC Comics’s Vertigo imprint. Set in a dystopian future in Britain, it pits an anarchist, known by his codename, […]
