David Lloyd
Lloyd at CCXP Cologne 2019
Born	1950 (age 74–75) London, England
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Writer,Penciller,Inker,Colourist
Notable works	Night Raven V for Vendetta (mask)
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David Lloyd (born 1950)^[1] is an Englishcomics artist best known as theillustrator of the storyV for Vendetta, written byAlan Moore, and the designer of itsanarchistprotagonistV and the modernGuy Fawkes/V mask, the latter going on to become a symbol ofprotest.

Other books he has illustrated includeWasteland,Espers,Hellblazer,Global Frequency,The Territory, and licensed properties such asAliens andJames Bond. In 2012 Lloyd establishedAces Weekly, an online comics anthology.

David Lloyd was born inEnfield, London in 1950.^[2]

Lloyd started working in comics in the late 1970s, drawing forHalls of Horror,TV Comic and a number ofMarvel UK titles.^[1] With writerSteve Parkhouse, he created the pulp adventure characterNight Raven. Lloyd namesJohn Burns,Steve Ditko,Ronald Embleton,Jack Kirby, andTony Weare as artistic influences.^[3] Lloyd drew a comics adaptation of theTime Bandits film in 1982.^[4]

Dez Skinn set upWarrior magazine in 1982 and asked Lloyd to create a new pulp character. Lloyd and writer Alan Moore, who had previously collaborated on severalDoctor Who stories at Marvel UK, createdV for Vendetta, a dystopian adventure featuring a flamboyantanarchist terrorist—V—fighting against a futurefascist government. Lloyd, who illustrated in cinematicchiaroscuro, devised V'sGuy Fawkes-inspiredappearance and suggested that Moore avoid captions,sound effects and thought balloons. Lloyd stated in a 2005 interview that "I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical. I just suggested it to Alan, and he said, 'that sounds like a good idea.' It gave us everything, the costume and everything. During the summer, I couldn't get any of these masks. These masks that you could get in every shop had a smile built into them. So I created this Guy Fawkes mask with a kind of smile. It was an ideal costume for this future anarchist persona."^[5] AfterWarrior folded in 1984, the series was reprinted and continued in colour byDC Comics in 1988^[6] and collected as a graphic novel in 1995.

It was adapted into afilm released in 2005. The stylizedGuy Fawkes/V mask Lloyd created for the character went on to become a symbol ofprotest. It was adopted as the symbol for the onlinehacktivist groupAnonymous after appearing in web forums. It has also been used inProject Chanology, theOccupy movement,Anonymous for the Voiceless, thefictional F-Society inMr. Robot, and other anti-establishment protests around the world.^[7][8]

Lloyd was one of the artists on the graphichorror anthologyWasteland for DC Comics with writersJohn Ostrander andDel Close.^[9] Lloyd has also worked onEspers, with writerJames D. Hudnall, forEclipse Comics;Hellblazer, with writersGrant Morrison andJamie Delano,^[10] andWar Story, withGarth Ennis, for DC; andGlobal Frequency, withWarren Ellis, forWildStorm.^[1] With Delano he drewThe Territory forDark Horse Comics,^[11] where he also worked on some of theirlicensed properties such asAliens andJames Bond. In 2006 Lloyd created a graphic novel,Kickback, for theFrench publisherEditions Carabas.^[12][13][14]

In 2012 Lloyd establishedAces Weekly, an online comics anthology featuring creators such asMark Wheatley,Val Mayerik,John McCrea,Phil Hester, Lew Stringer and David Leach.^[15]

• Night Raven:
  • "Night Raven" (withSteve Parkhouse,Marvel UK, 1979)
  • "House Of Cards" (withJamie Delano, Marvel UK, one shot, 1993)
• Hulk: "Dr Scarabeus" (inks, withSteve Moore and pencils byPaul Neary, inHulk Comic #15–20, Marvel UK, 1979)
• Doctor Who (withAlan Moore, Marvel UK):
  • "Black Legacy" (inDoctor Who Magazine #35–38, 1980, reprinted inDoctor Who #14, Marvel Comics)
  • "Business as Usual" (inDoctor Who Magazine #40–43, 1980 reprinted inDoctor Who #15, Marvel Comics)
  • "The 4-D War" (inDoctor Who Magazine #51, reprinted inThe Daredevils #6, 1980)
  • "Black Sun Rising" (inDoctor Who Magazine #57, alsoThe Daredevils #7, 1980)
• Time Bandits (pencils, with Steve Parkhouse and inks byJohn Stokes, film adaptation, Marvel, 1982)
• V for Vendetta (with Alan Moore, first two books serialised inWarrior #1–26, 1982–1985,DC, 10 issues, 1988–1989,tpb, DC, 1995)
• Sláine: "Cauldron of Blood" (withPat Mills, inDice Man #1, 1986)
• Wasteland (withJohn Ostrander andDel Close, DC, 1987–1988)
  • "Foo Goo" (artist, in #1, December 1987)
  • "Warning Signals" (artist, in #2, January 1988)
  • "Dies Illa" (artist, in #3, February 1988)
  • "Big Crossover Issue" (artist, in #5, April 1988)
  • "Method Actor" (artist/colourist, in #6, May 1988)
  • "Secret Lords of the DNA" (artist/colourist, in #7, June 1988)
  • "Del & Elron" (artist/colourist, in #9, August 1988)
  • "Life's Illusion" (artist/colourist, in #10, September 1988)
  • "Embryo" (artist/colourist, in #11, October 1988)
• Hellblazer:
  • Rare Cuts (trade paperback, 2005,Titan,ISBN 1-84023-974-3, DC/Vertigo,ISBN 1-4012-0240-3) collects:
    • "Early Warning" (withGrant Morrison,Hellblazer #25–26, 1990)
    • "This is the Diary of Danny Drake" (withGarth Ennis,Hellblazer #56, 1993)
  • Shoot (trade paperback, 2014, DC/Vertigo,ISBN 978-1401247485) collects:
    • "Christmas Cards" (with Jamie Delano,Hellblazer #250, 2008)
  • The Horrorist (with Jamie Delano, Vertigo, two–issue mini–series, 1995, collected inThe Devil You Know, 2007,ISBN 1-4012-1269-7)
• Sandman Mystery Theatre Annual #1 (withMatt Wagner andSteven T. Seagle, Vertigo, 1994)
• The Territory (with Jamie Delano,Dark Horse Comics, four–issue mini–series, 1999, tpb, 96 pages, 2006,ISBN 1-59307-010-1)
• War Story (with Garth Ennis, Vertigo, standaloneone shots):
  • "Nightingale" (2001, collected inWar Stories: Volume 1, 2004ISBN 1-84023-912-3)
  • "J for Jenny" (2003, collected inWar Stories: Volume 2, 2006ISBN 1-4012-1039-2)
• "Have You Seen...?" (withDan Abnett andAndy Lanning,9-11: The World's Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember, Volume Two, 2002, DC, tpb)
• Kickback (original French edition, Editions Carabas, 2005, English edition, 2006, Dark Horse Comics,ISBN 1-59307-659-2)
• Kickback: The iPad Graphic Novel (published by Panel Nine Publishing, 2012)
• São Paulo (original Brazilian edition, editora Casa 21, 2007,ASIN B00TFMNMYU) The ISBN printed in the document (978-85-88327-11-6) is invalid, causing a checksum error.

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