Steve Whitaker was a British artist best known as the colourist on the reprint of V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s to about the 1990s. A mysterious masked revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government,...

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David Lloyd, the artist on V for Vendetta said Whitaker "was not only one of the finest colourists Britain has ever produced, but a great artist, a scholar of the comics medium, and a great teacher, too, who I worked with at The London Cartoon Centre in it's various incarnations."

Biography

V for Vendetta (originally published in black and white in Warrior, with colour added for the American reprint and continuation). He was also the author of The Encyclopedia of Cartooning Techniques.

Whitaker had been an active member of the British Amateur Press Association

British Amateur Press Association (comics fandom)

The British Amateur Press Association was an amateur press association created by comics fans in late 1977, following a proposal from Phil Greenaway in the letter pages of the comics fanzine Bemusing; the first mailing was circulated in January 1978...

 until it was disbanded in 2004. Following his death, ex-member Tony Keen announced he would organise a one-off memorial mailing, as he had for fellow BAPAn Andy Roberts.

External links

• Steve Whitaker's Flickr gallery, including "Self-Portrait with Narrow Shoulders"
• Death of Steve Whitaker, Moorcock's Miscellany, February 24, 2008