Lloyd started working in comics in the late 1970s, drawing for
Halls of Horror,
TV Comic and a number of
Marvel UK titles. Lloyd drew a comics adaptation of the
Time Bandits film in 1982.
Warrior and V for Vendetta '' in 2011
Dez Skinn set up
Warrior magazine in 1982 and 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—
V—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. 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." After
Warrior folded in 1984, the series was reprinted and continued in colour by
DC Comics in 10 issues published during 1988-89 and collected as a graphic novel in 1990. It was adapted into a
film released in 2005. The stylized
Guy Fawkes/V mask Lloyd created for the character became a symbol of protest. It was adopted as the symbol for the online
hacktivist group
Anonymous after appearing in web forums. It has also been used in
Project Chanology, the
Occupy movement,
Anonymous for the Voiceless, the
fictional F-Society in
Mr. Robot, and other anti-establishment protests around the world.
Later career Lloyd was one of the artists on the graphic
horror anthology
Wasteland for DC Comics with writers
John Ostrander and
Del Close. 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. where he also worked on some of their
licensed properties such as
Aliens and
James Bond. In 2006 Lloyd created a graphic novel,
Kickback, for the
French publisher Editions Carabas. In 2012 Lloyd established
Aces Weekly, an online comics anthology featuring creators such as
Mark Wheatley,
Val Mayerik,
John McCrea,
Phil Hester, Lew Stringer and David Leach. ==Bibliography==