Politics & Power Quote by David Lloyd

The most revealing move here is the casual demotion of ideology into temperament: politics as something you are "interested in" the way you might be interested in composition, color, or control. Lloyd sketches a partnership where one person (Alan, almost certainly Moore) treats anarchy as a live political program, while the other treats politics as a set of values to be expressed, argued, staged. That distinction matters because it’s the difference between building a blueprint and building a lens.

Lloyd’s phrasing is politely barbed. "In a major way" grants Alan seriousness without endorsing him; "he actually believes" carries a faint incredulity, the raised eyebrow of someone who’s spent enough time around grand theories to notice where they collide with human mess. He doesn’t caricature anarchy, but he brackets it as faith - sincere, maybe admirable, not necessarily workable. The subtext isn’t anti-radical so much as anti-total: Lloyd resists the idea that an artwork should serve as a delivery system for one coherent political doctrine.

Then he pivots to craft: "putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint" is a statement of authorship, even as an illustrator in a writer-driven medium. It hints at the quiet tug-of-war inside collaborative comics, especially in projects like V for Vendetta where anarchism isn’t background flavor but the engine. The last line universalizes the impulse: whatever the assignment, he’s not just rendering someone else’s message; he’s smuggling in his own. Politics, for Lloyd, isn’t a manifesto. It’s a signature.