I met Dillon a few times back in the 1980s and 1990s and quite liked him. This is pretty shocking news.
According to The Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/steve-dillon-dead-preacher-creator-940668
The death of the comic book
artist, whose work also included 'Hellblazer' and 'The Punisher,' was announced
on social media Saturday morning.
Steve Dillon, the comic book
artist and co-creator of Preacher, has died at the age of 54, THR has
confirmed. News broke of the artist's death on Twitter Saturday morning,
followed by a number of tributes from fellow comic book professionals and fans.
Dillon's career in comics
stretches across five decades and two continents. His first professional work
came when he was just 16 years old, in the debut issue of Hulk Weekly for
Marvel's United Kingdom
subsidiary. In the years that followed, Dillon's art would appear in stories
for 2000 AD, Doctor Who Weekly and the classic Warrior anthology, including a
chapter of Alan Moore's groundbreaking Miracleman series.
The artist arrived in the United States
in the late 1980s with the DC Entertainment miniseries Skreemer, with other
work for the publisher including issues of Animal Man and The Atom. It was at
DC's Vertigo imprint where Dillon created the work that he'd be most remembered
for, working with writer Garth Ennis first on a critically acclaimed Hellblazer
run from 1992 through 1994, and then on Preacher from 1995 through 2000.
Subsequently, Ennis and
Dillon worked together on The Punisher at Marvel on multiple series, while also
creating artwork for a number of other Marvel titles including Wolverine:
Origins and Thunderbolts. His most recent work was a new Punisher series with
writer Becky Cloonan.
In addition to his artwork,
Dillon will be remembered for co-creating and co-editing the British comics
anthology Deadline with Brett Ewins in 1988, which published early work from
Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett — Tank Girl was a Deadline strip — as well as
Philip Bond, Nick Abadzis and Al Columbia.
According to a tweet from his
younger brother, Glyn, he died in New
York City , although no other information has been
released about the circumstances of his death.
Tempus fugit
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