![]() ![]() “I needed to do something different, more physical, standing up, climbing a ladder.” “At first I thought about doing a comic, but the feelings felt too big for that medium,” he says. I Googled myself and it said: ‘Glyn Dillon, the less talented brother of Steve.’ That burned a little but it was true This family tragedy gave him the push to pursue his dreams. It was work he loved but it also involved long, stressful hours and it had been nagging away at him that what he really wanted to do with his life, ever since he was a teenager, was paint. When it happened, Glyn was working at Pinewood Studios as a costume designer on the latest Star Wars movie. Steve’s death changed his younger brother’s life in all sorts of ways. “Had he just called an ambulance he would have been fine,” says Glyn. When Steve started getting stomach pains one night in his hotel he assumed it was food poisoning and, rather than get on his scheduled flight home, he decided to ride it out in his room. “The colour had returned to his cheeks and mentally he was in a good place,” says Glyn. At the time of his death, he hadn’t touched a drink for a year. Steve’s drinking and smoking had left him looking a lot older than his 54 years, but on doctor’s orders he was amending that. He was perhaps best known for creating the Preacher strip, alongside writer Garth Ennis (it later became a TV show), and for founding the magazine Deadline, which nurtured emerging comic artists such as Jamie Hewlett. Steve was a legend in the world of comics. ![]()
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