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. Derived from the masks used to represent 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, designed by David Lloyd for V for Vendetta (1982–1989)
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