The fun of Alan Moore is that you can never be quite sure what you’re going to get when you ask him a question. One question that has come up recently for him, via an interview with the UK’s Guardian newspaper, is how he feels about the masks that came from the V for Vendetta comics that he worked on back in the 80’s with David Lloyd. The DC Comic series was one of the earlier portions of the “British Invasion” into comics, and DC Comics in particular, and has remained a steady seller ever since in graphic novel form, regularly showing up in the mid range every month of the top three hundred sellers. With the Guy Fawkes masks being licensed materials from the movie that was made several years ago, it appears that some one hundred thousand are sold per year in the UK alone and many more overseas. And they’ve been a staple of the G20, G8 and Wikileaks related protests for the past couple of years as well as samplings of them showing up at the Occupy Wall Street protests. So what does Moore think about all of this?
“It turns protests into performances,” Moore said. “The mask is very operatic; it creates a sense of romance and drama.”
“I find it comical, watching Time Warner try to walk this precarious tightrope,” he said. “It’s a bit embarrassing to be a corporation that seems to be profiting from an anti-corporate protest… And yet they really don’t like turning down money—it goes against all of their instincts.”
[Source: ICv2]