Today in Comics History, March 22: Happy birthday, Steve Dillon!

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published March 22, 2022.

Today's the birthday of Steve Dillon (born 1962), and his passing in 2016 at the age of 54 hits a little harder every year here in the Bull household, especially to my best pal John, who loves Steve's work and was born within a couple weeks of Steve in 1962. Today's also a great day to re-read some of your favorite Steve Dillon-illustrated comics: perhaps Hellblazer, Preacher, Animal Man or The Punisher or Punisher MAX, or his many stories in 2000 AD. Remember how great his work is, and how we've missed out since he's gone.

"Q&A: Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon" in Vertigo: Winter's Edge #1 (DC/Vertigo, January 1998)
(Click picture to big-as-all-outdoors-size)



Say, Steve, any particular muse you rely on in your work?


from "Artists' Jam" in Absolute Vertigo one-shot (DC/Vertigo, Winter 1995), by Steve Dillon
An interview with the Preacher creators:


"2 Drunken, Blathering Idiots" from Vertigo X Anniversary Preview one-shot (DC/Vertigo, April 2003), interview by Zachary Rau
Steve Dillon on the left, and Brett Ewins and Jamie Hewlett:


from Tank Girl Full Colour Classics #2.1 (Titan, June 2019)
Happy birthday, Steve. Miss ya.


from 2000 AD prog 2006 (Rebellion, 9 November 2016)


from DC/Vertigo Comics cover-dated January 2017

REPORTER: They say you're a man of vision. Is that true?
WOODROW CALL: Yeah. Hell of a vision.
— Lonesome Dove (TV miniseries, 1989)