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alliteratorEvan Narcisse
10/22/16 11:28am
Oh man, I can’t believe it. His run on the current Preacher with Becky Cloonan was amazing. I know that some people don’t like his artwork — he tends to use the same faces — but his action scenes were always great and visceral. And he was the definitive Punisher artist.
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  nurseralliterator
  10/22/16 12:54pm
  I am an irregular comic reader so while I enjoy certain artists/titles/series, some names get by me....I appreciate those of you taking the time to post examples of Dillon’s art, allowing many of us the chance to see his talent and clearly, his heart. It spurs me to seek out and explore what he had to offer.
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  alliteratornurser
  10/22/16 1:19pm
  If you like the Punisher, I would really recommend reading Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank by Ennis and Dillon. It was the start of Ennis’s long, long run on writing the Punisher and it has some of his best work.
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simon-on-the-river3Evan Narcisse
10/22/16 11:59am
That is terrible news.
Steve entered comics as a 16-year-old, drawing Nick Fury, Hulk and Ant Man for Hulk Comic, then Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer and other strips for Doctor Who Weekly. He also drew Axel Pressbutton for Warrior. I’m not sure what he drew for 200oAD, but he was co-founder of Deadline which captured some of the zeitgiest of the London club scene and gave a platform for Tank Girl and Hugo Tate along with strips by Peter Milligan and Shaky Kane. His Punisher and Preacher series speak for themselves.
My condolences to his family.
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  dentedsimon-on-the-river3
  10/22/16 9:44pm
  I just... How can someone so talented die so young? It’s really not on.
  What is wrong with this country that both Brett Ewins & Steve Dillon died so early when they both had so much left to give? It’s just not right.
  RIP Mr Dillon, you were great & will be missed more than you’ll know.
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  simon-on-the-river3dented
  10/23/16 4:02am
  I gather Steve was originally hired on the basis of a single illustration.
  It’s a sad year for sure.
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GuanoLadEvan Narcisse
10/22/16 11:38am
Steve Dillon’s art in 2000AD was always some of my favourite, especially the Dredd story City of the Damned. I enjoyed series more if he was the artist (I’m looking at you Harlem Heroes).
Drokk. RIP.
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Howard the DuckEvan Narcisse
10/22/16 11:24am
This hit me like a ton of bricks. Happy trails, Steve.
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Done With This SiteEvan Narcisse
10/22/16 2:26pm
I recently read The Preacher series. Several times, I stopped down to show my wife a page and say something like “look at her face” or “can you see what’s going on there?”. I was amazed at how the art could convey a different emotion.
One page that stuck out to me was when the Preacher was yelling at the factory owner and his lady lawyer. After he left, the factory owner said he had to go to the bathroom, and she said “me too” but the look on her face conveyed that she had to go because she was so turned on by what a badass the preacher was. I still laugh when I think about that page.
54 is too fucking young and it punches me in the balls when someone dies within a decade of my own age. I gotta get my shit together.
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  Lenny ValentinDone With This Site
  10/22/16 3:52pm
  Heh, I remember that scene!
  Just as Preacher is finally getting collected in an absolute edition - the first volume is already on my shelf. Pages looked mighty awesome too printed on fine, glossy archive-quality paper.
  RIP, Steve... 54 is too damn young.
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grom-commandoEvan Narcisse
10/22/16 2:38pm
How I feel right now. RIP Steve.
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SeafoodGumboEvan Narcisse
10/22/16 11:33am
I’ll always fondly remember his artistic style. Not cartoonish or anatomically preposterous. Conveyed a lot of emotion with a clean, minimalist but detailed touch. You left your mark Mr.Dillon and will be missed.
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DavidLomaxEvan Narcisse
10/22/16 11:36am
Man, I just finished a re-read of Preacher last week, and was marveling at his art. Expert draftsmanship, stunning vision and a combination of epic scope with beautiful close-up expressions. He could do human and divine, and everything in-between. Even on a re-read, I found his art (to borrow a Marvel cover-phrase) pulse-pounding.
I’m really sad that I won’t get to see new Dillon art.
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relic1980Evan Narcisse
10/22/16 2:12pm
I first became aware of Steve Dillon’s artwork in the pages of Warrior magazine, which produced so many well-known comics, including Marvelman/Miracleman, V for Vendetta, The Madman...and Laser Eraser and Pressbutton:
Written by Pedro Henry (which I think was a pseudonym) and drawn by Dillon, this was just great fun. I admit that I haven’t kept up with comics for years (other than what I read here and a few other places), but look at the quality of the work on that page above.
The book came out in 1982 (and I still own the first two), so Dillon would have been 19 or 20 years old when that saw print. And from what I’ve seen here and in other places, he just got better and better.
I’m the same age (54) and it just seems that much more tragic when someone with such talent passes that young.
RIP Steve.
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HarlequiN QBEvan Narcisse
10/22/16 11:43am
Gutted. Been a big fan of Dillon since his work for 2000Ad back in the 80s. So this is a fair blow, especially as he was so relatively young.
Damn it.
RIP Mr Dillon, you’ll be missed, but long remembered.
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