Exclusive: See David Lloyd's Ballsy, Bullish Cover of New Occupy Comics

Comics' viral anarchist V taunts Wall Street's bull in the latest issue of Occupy Comics: Art and Stories Inspired By Occupy Wall Street.
Image: David Lloyd

As Occupy Wall Street's populist uprising enters its second year Monday, V for Vendetta artist David Lloyd gifts Occupy Comics' second issue with a ballsy cover that brings new meaning to the phrase "bulls on parade."

Take a look at Wired's sneak peek at the cover image above, and you'll probably catch our drift. The image comes courtesy of Lloyd, whose art merged with Alan Moore's lasting narrative of politics and panopticons in V for Vendetta and turned the now-ubiquitous Guy Fawkes mask into an icon of social revolution.

"It's a perfect image to capture Round Two of Occupy," said editor Matt Pizzolo, who's releasing Occupy Comics: Art and Stories Inspired by Comics with Bad Religion's Brett Gurewitz and 30 Days of Night's Steve Niles through their recently launched indie publishing house, Black Mask Studios.

"While the first issue took a very intellectual approach to the movement, these stories strike at the emotional and spiritual heart of the movement," Pizzolo added. "The timing is perfect, because as year two begins there is a lot of soul searching about what the movement means and how it can evolve."

Round two is certain to be more difficult, now that the Occupy movement — as well as Anonymous and other upstarts wearing Guy Fawkes masks — have become a part of our cultural lexicon. It's getting hard to tell if NYPD posters like this are real or straight outta V for Vendetta's surveillance dystopia.

"I was massively impressed by the great camaraderie and strength of will [the Occupy movement] showed in New York last October when I went to see what they were doing, and I hope that can somehow survive all the blows they've suffered since then," said Lloyd in an e-mail to Wired, in which he wished the protesters luck. "They've got a hard job to do and it's not going to get any easier."

Lloyd is joined in Occupy Comics' second issue by Pulitzer nominee Matt Bors, Obama's terrorist pal Bill Ayers, Molly Crabapple (who was href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/molly-crabapple-arrested-writers-rally-online_b57627">arrested Monday during an Occupy protest in New York), Patrick Meaney (director of Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts) and more. Hard and virtual copies are available Monday from Black Mask Studios, and will hit comics stores in early 2013.

Riley Rossmo's arty cyborg keep its dead eye on the populist prize in the second issue of Occupy Comics.
Images courtesy Black Mask Studios

Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman 18 Sep, 2012

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