Incidental Characters

...include Thomas de Quincey who wrote 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater', and playwrite Samuel Beckett.This is a graphic novel with a difference...

The British Rocket Group

Founded in 1949 by Professor Bernard Quatermass to develop interplanetary rocket travel

The Mud Guard

Special forces working in the tunnels, sewers and rivers under London.Their insignia is Cerberus, the triple-headed dog guarding the underworld

London Buses

The predecessor of the Routemaster; a London Transport RT

What London taxis used to be like; an Austin FX3

Period Police Vehicles

The famous black Wolseley saloon with a bell on the front, and a Morris Commercial 'Black Maria'

Beak Street

V-Cars HQ

The entrance to the underground headquarters of V-Cars is situated in the disused tram tunnel in Kingsway

Bar Italia

                                         Frith Street

V-Cars vehicles

Favourite transport includes modified Daimler ambulances and Humber Pullman hearses

V-Cars; a typical night's work

Francis Bacon [and others]

Fact is blended with fiction.The famous Colony Room of Dean Street might be the Golden Crocodile of Meard Street.Or it might not.And where did Francis Bacon get the idea for the weirdly distorted characters he painted?

Soho 1958

'Paint it Black' is a 65-page graphic novel written by Stephen Walsh featuring Commander 'Paraffin' Jack MacNab of the Scotland Yard Vampire Squad .It's set in the meticulously researched Soho of the 1950's.