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V for Vendetta’s Alan Moore, David Lloyd Join Occupy Comics

post #1 of 10
12/5/11 at 8:33pm
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I thought about posting this in the Miller HT thread but it seems like it deserved it's own....

 

 

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V for Vendetta’s Alan Moore, David Lloyd Join Occupy Comics

 

Nearly 30 years after publishing V for Vendetta, writer Alan Moore and artist David Lloyd are throwing their support behind the global Occupy movement that’s drawn inspiration from their comic’s anti-totalitarian philosophy and iconography.

 

Moore will contribute a long-form prose piece, possibly with illustrations, to the Occupy Comics project. His writing work will explore the Occupy movement’s principles, corporate control of the comics industry and the superhero paradigm itself.

 

Lloyd signed onto the growing Occupy Comics project last week, as did Madman’s Mike Allred and American Splendor’s Dean Haspiel. Occupy Comics will eventually sell single-issue comic books and a hardcover compilation, but an innovative arrangement with Kickstarter means that funds raised through pledges of support can be channeled directly to Occupy Wall Street’s populist ranks now.

 

“It’s fair to say that Alan Moore and David Lloyd are unofficial godfathers of the current protest movement,” said Halo-8 founder and Occupy Comics organizer Matt Pizzolo in an e-mail to Wired.com. “It’s really amazing to see two creatives whose work was inspiring to street protesters join a creative project that is inspired by the street protesters. It’s a pretty virtuous cycle.”

 

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http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/12/alan-moore-occupy-comics/

 

there's a neat video at the link as well....

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post #2 of 10
12/5/11 at 8:41pm

That's seriously fantastic, it'll be fascinating to see Moore return more overtly to his earlier more political work. Considering V is by far my favorite work of Moores, it's going to be pretty exciting seeing what he comes up with.

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post #3 of 10
12/6/11 at 4:35am

Cool and al, but the whole Guy Fawkes imagery in "V for Vendetta" always struck me as weird, since the guy and the whole plot  was actually looking to install a (perhaps more authorative) catholic monarchy in britain.

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post #4 of 10
12/6/11 at 10:23am

I wrote about this elsewhere, but it's important to remember that symbols evolve. This stopped being about the actual Guy Fawkes centuries ago. The king declared Guy Fawkes Day, with Fawkes being burned in effigy over the years long past the time when anyone involved in the gunpowder plot was dead, and the Guy being codified into an abstract symbol. (I always assumed that the look of V came from some kind of traditional design for a Guy, rather than an attempt to replicated Fawkes himself? But I don't know much about the holiday.)

 

November 5th became an abstract celebration of authoritarianism, punishing enemies of the crown, rather than anything to do with specific ideology. V For Vendetta was a response to the holiday and the cultural symbol, subverting the idea and turning the Guy into a heroic symbol of anarchy (which is probably why Moore was ticked off at the movie for explicitly linking V to the historical Fawkes). Then, of course, the movie adopted the (confused) idea of V as an outright freedom fighter, struggling to restore democracy, which is what the protestors are responding to. It's not unlike easter eggs and Christmas trees going from pagan to Christian symbols.

 

To me, the issue with the OWS protesters adopting the V mask has nothing to do with the historical Fawkes, it's the fact that the character in the comic is meant to be morally ambiguous. Turning him into a pure hero confuses the issue too much and does, in fact, open the movement to criticisms that they're supporting violent anarchy, symbolically at least. Anyone claiming the protesters want a Catholic theocracy are probably on shakier ground, of course...

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post #5 of 10
12/6/11 at 10:31am

Bravo to Alan Moore and David Lloyd.  I will be getting this. 

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post #6 of 10
12/10/11 at 3:41pm

Can't wait to see Frank Miller's response. I mean, when old Frank up and pulls out his trusty ACME mallet and fist pumps it in the air, that'll be something else 'll tell ya. 

On a serious note, I'm interested. I like that it looks like he's feeling the fire again. Damn shame that Gibbons had to piss off Moore, I'd have loved for him to be involved.

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post #7 of 10
12/10/11 at 10:17pm
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Originally Posted by ryoken View Post

Cool and al, but the whole Guy Fawkes imagery in "V for Vendetta" always struck me as weird, since the guy and the whole plot  was actually looking to install a (perhaps more authorative) catholic monarchy in britain.



The Puritans wanted a purer protestantism and created a Massachusset's theocracy, and we praise the pilgrims every year.

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post #8 of 10
1/11/12 at 4:41pm

Seemed like people were tip toeing around Frank Miller like he was some sacred but crazy uncle.

 

Nice to see some major industry people give him a good, articulate slap in the face.

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post #9 of 10
1/11/12 at 5:40pm

Yeah, this is gonna be an interesting read. Bring it, hairy one.

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post #10 of 10
1/11/12 at 7:36pm
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Yeah, this is gonna be an interesting read. Bring it, hairy one.



The Tantric Pagan Shaman will call down the thunder gods.

 

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