Remember Remember...

While my american cousins are all making a big thing about Halloween, I thought I'd do a quick illustration to acknowledge one of the UK's superior holiday events : Bonfire Night.

For those not familiar with the holiday, it's when we celebrate how Guy Fawkes and bunch of catholics got caught trying to blow up parliament and protestant King James I in 1605.

The day is now celebrated by bonfires and firework events through out the country.  In a slightly worrying Wicker Man style twist, kids are encouraged to build their own scarecrow-like 'GUY', then scrounge money off the general public (usually chanting 'penny for the guy' in the street) before chucking him on the bonfire at the end of the night.  Nothing worrying at all there.

Last year, some boys came to my door with a rather life-like guy in a wheelbarrow.  I was suckered into giving them some cash only to then watch the carefully crafted 'guy' get up, take his mask  and gloves off and walk off.  Kids eh?

It's too close to Halloween for my liking, and being a miserable sod, I'll just have to sit in the dark with curtains closed and the lights off all this week...