REMEMBER, REMEMBER ... GUY FAWKES NIGHT

 

We all have happened to see the mask below: pale skin, goatee, a thin moustache. But do you know where it comes from? That is Guy Fawkes’s mask.

·     WHO  WAS GUY FAWKES?

Guy Fawkes was originally from Yorkshire, he was born in 1570 and he was raised by his catholic stepfather. In the period in which he was born ,  Queen Elizabeth I consolidated the autonomy of the Anglican church from the Catholic Church of Rome and with her Britain became one of the most important powers in Europe.

REMEMBER, REMEMBER... V FOR VENDETTA

Few days ago it was Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, the 5th of November national festivity. They celebrate the day a group of Catholic plotters decided to kill their protestant king, James I. But they actually celebrate the fact that the king was saved, the plot discovered and the culprits executed.

Anyway,  we are not telling you the story of Guy Fawkes today, only that  he is the inspiration of what happens in the story of one of my favourite comic book, V for Vendetta.