The iconic version of the Guy Fawkes mask owes its popularity to the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta, which centers on a vigilante's efforts to destroy an authoritarian government in a ...

NEW YORK — Look at a photo or news clip from around the world of Occupy protesters and you’ll likely spot a handful of people wearing masks of a cartoon-like man with a pointy beard, closed ...

Guy Fawkes masks, immortalized in the movie "V for Vendetta," have become a global symbol of protest and anonymity through the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring. Right now people are ...

Guy Fawkes masks have been popular method in underground circles since the release of the 2006 film "V for Vendetta." PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty ...

Guy Fawkes, for the uninitiated, was an English Catholic who attempted to assassinate King James I by blowing up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. This “Gunpowder Plot” is commemorated in the ...

As Walker notes, the 4chan-based group’s public face has become the Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta, which the hacktivists wear as a means of asserting their presence while preserving their ...

Just days after the Paris terrorist attacks on November 13, the iconic mask of Guy Fawkes appeared – again – in two videos released in French by the hacktivist techno-social collective ...

Masks of Guy Fawkes, the 17th-century English conspirator who has become a symbol of resistance, have been worn in England since the 18th century. But it’s only within the past 15 years that ...

The sinister Guy Fawkes mask made famous by the film V for Vendetta has become an emblem for anti-establishment protest groups. Who's behind them? From New York, to London, to Sydney, to Cologne ...

Before V for Vendetta (which was published in serial form throughout the 1980s before being made into a 2005 film), Guy Fawkes costumes and effigies were only popular in the U.K. on Halloween and ...

A protester with the "Occupy Seattle" movement wears a Guy Fawkes mask and takes a photo with a mobile phone as he demonstrates, in downtown Seattle, Oct. 15, 2011.

Masks of Guy Fawkes, the 17th-century English conspirator who has become a symbol of resistance, have been worn in England since the 18th century. But it’s only within the past 15 years that ...