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David Lloyd (comic artist)
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David Lloyd (born 1950) is a British comics artist best known as the illustrator of the graphic novel V for Vendetta, written by Alan Moore.
He started working in comics in the late 1970s, drawing for Halls of Horror, TV Comic and a number of Marvel UK titles. With writer Steve Parkhouse, he created the pulp adventure character Night Raven.
When former Marvel UK editor
Dez Skinn set up
Warrior magazine in 1982, he asked Lloyd to create a new pulp character. Lloyd and writer Alan Moore (who had previously collaborated on several
Doctor Who stories at Marvel UK) created
V for Vendetta, a dystopian adventure featuring a flamboyant
anarchist terrorist fighting against a future
fascist government. Lloyd, who illustrated in cinematic
chiaroscuro, devised V's
Guy Fawkes-inspired appearance and suggested that Moore avoid captions,
sound effects and thought balloons. After
Warrior folded in 1984, the series was reprinted and continued in colour by
DC Comics and collected as a graphic novel in 1995, and then developed into a
film released in 2006.
Lloyd has also worked on
Espers, with writer
James D. Hudnall, for
Eclipse Comics;
Hellblazer, with writers
Grant Morrison and
Jamie Delano, and
War Story, with
Garth Ennis, for DC; and
Global Frequency, with
Warren Ellis, for
Wildstorm. With Delano he also drew
The Territory for
Dark Horse, where he has also worked on some of their licensed properties like
Aliens and
James Bond. He has also created a graphic novel,
Kickback, for French publisher
Editions Carabas, which is available in the US and UK via Dark Horse (
ISBN 1-59307-659-2).