Steve Dillon (Comic Artists for Preacher, Punisher) Has Passed Away
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It's just breaking now, it broke from fellow artist Peter Milligan's and writer Warren Ellis' Twitters.
[media]https://twitter.com/1PeterMilligan/status/789826742110326784[/media]
[media]https://twitter.com/warrenellis/status/789830547975659521[/media]
It probably won't be covered by any major news sites so I hope these posts work for sources.
R.I.P
[t]http://i.imgur.com/UtOEBmr.jpg[/t]
RIP, he drew the greatest face in the history of comics
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What a shame. I loved his work on Preacher and Welcome Back, Frank.
Holy shit what?
Yo [b]what the fuck.[/b]
He was just doing a new Punisher run.
no fucking way
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seriously? I actually really unironically preferred his issues...
[editline]22nd October 2016[/editline]
When I was reading Garth's punisher I actually ended up skipping some that weren't Dillon..
What a fucking shitshow today has been
Never read any of his work, but it's sad that such talent has passed. I heard Preacher was great.
RIP. but he was notoriously ehhh at his job
[QUOTE=dillspears;51245662]RIP. but he was notoriously ehhh at his job[/QUOTE]
Only in later stuff and i think that had to do with him not being as enthusiastic about it. Even then, he was really good at facial expressions (conveying emotions through them and whatnot), despite his notorious sameface issue.
Plus, they liked to try and mix his art with the bubbly shitty looking gradient photoshop rendering style and it just does not look good with his stuff.
fuck me, I loved all of the stuff he did with Ennis
frank in peace, Steve Dillon
So many of Ennis' batshit crazy ideas wouldn't have been as effective if not for Dillon.
To my surprise the NY [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/arts/steve-dillon-comic-artist-who-helped-create-preacher-dies-at-54.html?_r=1]Times[/url] covered his death. I can't find the source on his Facebook but Garth Ennis put this story up somewhere.
[quote]Steve liked a drink or two, and if the truth be told that’s how most of us knew him. Or it might be more accurate to say that Steve liked the pub, because that’s where you go to meet up with people, and Steve loved people. He found them endlessly interesting, he was happy to talk to anyone. He changed my life in a couple of ways. The first was with a phone call, somewhere towards the end of ’91: “All right, mate, I’m thinking of heading over to New York in the new year, maybe for a long weekend. Fancy it?” The second was with two decades plus of brilliant artistic collaboration, where he took whatever lunacy I threw at him and made it work flawlessly, every single time. >We met in London in the summer of ’89, but it was about a year later in Dublin that something audibly clicked. After everyone else had passed out, we sat up ‘til dawn and killed off a bottle of Jameson, talking about what we wanted to do in comics- what we thought could be done with them, what the medium was for. I can recall a sort of mutual “Oh yes, you. You’re the one. You get it.” This was to pay off handsomely in the years to come. The last time I saw Steve was late last Saturday night in New York, walking down fifth avenue to his hotel after saying goodnight outside Foley’s. It could have been the end of any one of a thousand nights. It’s not a bad last memory to have. Steve was best man at my wedding and my good and dear friend. I think he probably taught me more about what that word means than anyone else. I drank with Steve Dillon from Dublin to Belfast, from London to Glasgow, from San Francisco to New York City. I have not one single complaint. Cheers, mate.[/quote]
Bleeding Cool also has a collection of thoughts [url=http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/10/22/comics-people-remember-steve-dillon/]here[/url].
Fuck this year.
[quote]Here’s my story. I’ve known Steve for decades but this is a more recent one. Of late, there had been a meme regarding what was described as “Frank Face”, based on Steve Dillon’s inclination to draw this psychopathic murderer with the exact same expression from panel to panel, and to find it on other characters as well.
I remember chatting with Steve at the MCM London Comic Con bar last year (lemonades all round) to find that a) not only was he very familiar with the meme but that b) was putting in examples of the expression on purpose into everthing he did, just to feed it further.
Goodbye Steve.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/10/22/comics-people-remember-steve-dillon/[/url]
Fucking legend
Fun fact: apparently he was aware of the Frankface meme and started deliberately putting it into comics.
RIP Steve. We'll never forget you.
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