# David Lloyd artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-lloyd/
Profile generated: 2026-05-03T08:58:03.077Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English, British
- Movements: British comics, Graphic novels
- Common media: Comics illustration, Graphic novels, Digital comics

## About David Lloyd

David Lloyd (born 1950) is an English comics artist and illustrator whose work has had a lasting impact on graphic storytelling and popular protest culture. He is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of V for Vendetta, written by Alan Moore, a dystopian graphic novel first serialized in the early 1980s. Lloyd designed the iconic Guy Fawkes mask worn by the story's protagonist, a design that transcended the comic to become one of the most widely recognized symbols of political protest worldwide. Beyond V for Vendetta, Lloyd created the graphic novel Kickback, published in multiple languages, and founded Aces Weekly, a digital comics anthology featuring work by leading creators. His career spans illustration, writing, editing, and publishing within the British and international comics scene.

## Common works and media

Collectors and appraisers may encounter Lloyd's work as original ink-and-wash comic book pages, published graphic novels (including trade paperback and hardcover editions of V for Vendetta), signed prints, convention sketches, comic book covers, and contributions to anthology titles such as Aces Weekly. The Kickback graphic novel, available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Greek, and Portuguese editions, represents another collectible category. Ephemera such as promotional posters, convention programs, and signed first editions also appear in the secondary market.

## Market and appraisal context

The Appraisily auction record index contains 9 lots attributed to 'David Lloyd,' with 8 carrying a realized price, spanning December 2007 through May 2025. Prices range from £6 (GBP) to €6,067 (EUR), with a median of roughly €350 and a 75th percentile near €400. Eight distinct auction houses appear—Artcurial, Abell Auction, Chaucer Auctions, Finarte, Gray's Auctioneers, Heritage Auctions, Leland Little Auctions, and Levis Auction—suggesting broad geographic dispersion (Europe and North America) but very low liquidity: only one lot appeared in the most recent 12-month window (May 2025, Finarte), and none in the prior 12 months. The €6,067 Artcurial result (May 2015) is an outlier that skews the ceiling; the remaining priced lots cluster between roughly €60 and €600. Crucially, several lots are identifiable as works by other artists sharing the same name—specifically an American fine artist born 1955 whose charcoal works and mixed-media collages appear at Heritage, Abell, and Gray's, and a signed cricket book at Chaucer Auctions unrelated to the comics illustrator. Only the Finarte lot (Sandman Mystery Theatre Annual, 1994, €600) is clearly attributable to the English comics artist David Lloyd (born 1950).

## Auction-house-backed market evidence

The Appraisily auction record index contains 9 lots attributed to 'David Lloyd,' with 8 carrying a realized price, spanning December 2007 through May 2025. Prices range from £6 (GBP) to €6,067 (EUR), with a median of roughly €350 and a 75th percentile near €400. Eight distinct auction houses appear—Artcurial, Abell Auction, Chaucer Auctions, Finarte, Gray's Auctioneers, Heritage Auctions, Leland Little Auctions, and Levis Auction—suggesting broad geographic dispersion (Europe and North America) but very low liquidity: only one lot appeared in the most recent 12-month window (May 2025, Finarte), and none in the prior 12 months. The €6,067 Artcurial result (May 2015) is an outlier that skews the ceiling; the remaining priced lots cluster between roughly €60 and €600. Crucially, several lots are identifiable as works by other artists sharing the same name—specifically an American fine artist born 1955 whose charcoal works and mixed-media collages appear at Heritage, Abell, and Gray's, and a signed cricket book at Chaucer Auctions unrelated to the comics illustrator. Only the Finarte lot (Sandman Mystery Theatre Annual, 1994, €600) is clearly attributable to the English comics artist David Lloyd (born 1950).

### Appraisal notes

When appraising a work attributed to David Lloyd the comics artist, an Appraisily appraiser would combine these auction signals with detailed photographs, dimensions, medium identification (ink-and-wash on Bristol board, digital print, published graphic novel, etc.), signature verification, condition assessment, and provenance documentation. The auction record pool for this specific David Lloyd is thin and partially contaminated by homonymous artists, so the appraiser should filter lots to only those with clear comics-art attribution and supplement with specialist comic-art auction databases (e.g., Heritage Auctions comics categories, ComicConnect, or Philistine Comics records). Comparable lots should be matched by medium (original interior page vs. cover vs. print), publication (V for Vendetta pages commanding the highest premium), and era of creation. Edition details matter for prints; page counts and story significance matter for original art.

### Valuation factors

- Attribution clarity: many auction records conflate multiple artists named David Lloyd; only lots explicitly tied to comics illustration should inform valuation for this artist
- Medium distinction: original hand-drawn comic pages (especially V for Vendetta interior art) carry substantially different value from published graphic novels, prints, or convention sketches
- Cultural significance of subject matter: V for Vendetta-related original art commands a premium due to the Guy Fawkes mask's global protest-culture resonance
- Condition and signature: presence of the artist's signature, page condition (creasing, toning, paste-ups), and whether the work is unrestored affect value
- Provenance: documentation tracing an original page from the artist or publisher to the current owner materially strengthens attribution and price
- Scarcity: original V for Vendetta pages are rarely available at public auction, making any appearance a significant market event
- Liquidity: very few lots appear per year; sellers should expect extended marketing periods and buyers should monitor specialist comics-art channels rather than general fine-art auctions

### Collector notes

- The auction record for this artist name is sparse—fewer than one lot per year on average—and several records belong to different David Lloyds. If you are buying or selling work by the English comics artist David Lloyd (born 1950), verify that the lot description references comics, graphic novels, or specific titles like V for Vendetta, Sandman Mystery Theatre, or Kickback. The highest confirmed price for a clearly attributable lot in the collected data is €600 (Finarte, 2025, for a Sandman Mystery Theatre page). The €6,067 Artcurial result may pertain to this artist or another David Lloyd; without a descriptive lot title, it should not be used as a comparable without corroboration. Original V for Vendetta pages, when they surface, would likely exceed these observed figures but comparable sales should be sourced from specialist comics-art databases. Signed graphic novels and prints trade at modest levels (under €100 is common for unsigned trade paperbacks; signed editions carry a premium).

### Market caveats

- Name collision: at least four of the nine collected lots—Heritage (American, b. 1955 charcoal), Abell (American, b. 1955 untitled), Gray's (Los Angeles, b. 1955 mixed media), and Leland Little (Bob Timberlake studio model)—are clearly works by different artists named David Lloyd, not the English comics illustrator born in 1950.
- The Chaucer Auctions lot (£6, signed cricket book 'The World according to Bumble') is attributable to David Lloyd the English cricketer and broadcaster, not the comics artist.
- The Artcurial lots titled simply 'David LLOYD' without descriptive detail cannot be confidently attributed to either artist and should be excluded from comparables analysis unless verified.
- No specific realized prices for confirmed V for Vendetta original artwork appear in this data set; the cultural premium for such material is therefore estimated rather than observed.
- Liquidity is very low (0–1 lots per year attributable to this specific artist), so price trends should not be inferred from the available sample.
- Currency mix (EUR, USD, GBP, CAD) complicates direct price comparison; all figures should be normalized before drawing range conclusions.

### Market evidence sources

- Appraisily auction record index: https://appraisily.com/api/scraper-search/artists/david-lloyd/seo-profile?recentLimit=24&relatedLimit=0

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from library authority files and verified public sources with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For David Lloyd, identity data is grounded in VIAF, Wikidata, the Library of Congress authority file, and the artist's official website. Market insights are based on general comics art market knowledge and should be supplemented with specialist auction databases for specific appraisal purposes.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q729902
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lloyd_(comics)
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/116733821/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003021715
- David Lloyd: http://www.lforlloyd.com