The Guy Fawkes mask is a stylised depiction of Guy Fawkes created by illustrator David Lloyd for the 1982–1989 graphic novel V for Vendetta. Inspired by the use of a mask representing Fawkes being burned on an effigy having long previously had roots as part of Guy Fawkes Night celebrations, Lloyd designed the mask as a smiling face with red cheeks, a wide moustache upturned at both ends, and a thin vertical pointed beard, worn in the graphic novel's narrative by anarchist protagonist V.
A protester in a Guy Fawkes mask, created by David Lloyd for 1982–89's V for Vendetta
A masked Guy being paraded on Guy Fawkes Night, 1868
David Lloyd's Guy Fawkes mask at the Odeon Leicester Square in London during the 2006 screening of V for Vendetta
Members of the group Anonymous wear Guy Fawkes masks at a protest against the Church of Scientology. London, 2008.
David Lloyd is an English comics artist best known as the illustrator of the story V for Vendetta, written by Alan Moore, and the designer of its anarchist protagonist V and the modern Guy Fawkes/V mask, the latter going on to become a symbol of protest.
Lloyd at CCXP Cologne 2019