Steve Whitaker

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Steve Whitaker
Steve Whitaker
Born	26 June 1955
Died	22 February 2008(2008-02-22) (aged 52)
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Colourist
Notable works	V for Vendetta
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Steve Whitaker (26 June 1955 – 22 February 2008) was a

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 its various incarnations."^[1]

Biography

V for Vendetta was 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.^[2]

Whitaker had been an active member of the

• V for Vendetta (colourist, with writer Alan Moore and artist David Lloyd, DC Comics, 1988)
• Saga of the Man-Elf #1-2 (with Michael Moorcock, Trident Comics, 1989)
• St. Swithin's Day (colourist, with writer Grant Morrison and artist Paul Grist, one-shot reprint, Trident Comics, 1990)
• "The Last Party On Earth" (art, with writers
  ISBN 1-871878-56-X
  )
• The Encyclopedia of Cartooning Techniques: A Unique A-Z Directory of Cartoon Techniques (
  ISBN 978-1-56138-354-2
  )
• Manga Publishing
  , 1995)