Steve Dillon, Comic Artist Who Helped Create ‘Preacher,’ Dies at 54 (original) (raw)
Arts|Steve Dillon, Comic Artist Who Helped Create ‘Preacher,’ Dies at 54
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Preacher, which ran for 66 issues and ended in 2000, told the story of Jesse Custer, a disillusioned man of God from Texas, who becomes imbued with the spirit of Genesis.Credit...DC ENTERTAINMENT
- Oct. 23, 2016
Steve Dillon, a comic-book artist best known for Preacher, a long-running series, recently adapted for television, about three companions who literally search for God, died over the weekend in Manhattan. He was 54.
His brother, Glyn, announced the death on Twitter on Saturday but did not say when he died. His friend and collaborator Garth Ennis, a comic book writer, said the cause was a ruptured appendix that Mr. Dillon at first assumed was food poisoning.
Mr. Dillon, who lived in England, had been in New York to attend Comic Con, the annual industry convention for comic book fans.
He was a legend among comic-book fans and considered a master of his craft by colleagues. Known for a deeply expressive, often humorous style that leapt off the page, he created characters that could communicate volumes with a single expression.
His “pages were as fluid as camerawork, as efficient and composed as theater,” the novelist and comic-book writer Warren Ellis said in an interview. “Everything breathed.”
Mr. Dillon was born in London on March 22, 1962, and moved with his family to Luton, Bedfordshire, as a child. He started working in comics at age 16 for Marvel UK, the British imprint of Marvel Comics.
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