Here’s a little treat for comic fans. Ahead of a new season of comic creators and raconteur Kev F. Sutherland’s podcast Comic Cuts The Panel Show, he’s unearthed this never-before-heard recording of the legendary artist Steve Dillon being interviewed at the 1982 UK Comic Art Convention, by himself and Steve Noble.
Steve Dillon, who, sadly, died in 2016, a renowned talent rightfully described by Jamie McElvie as “a true legend of comics“, is perhaps best known internationally for his run on DC Comics Hellblazer and as co-creator of Preacher, both published by Vertigo Comics, but for British fans captured the hearts of many with his work on Hulk Weekly and Doctor Who Weekly in the 1970s and early 1980s.
“It’s only a short ten minute excerpt from a much longer conversation,” Kev tells us, “which I may someday share more of. (That same weekend also produced interviews with Alan Moore and others, also unheard for forty years).”
If you enjoy conversation about comics, there are 19 episodes of Season 1 of Comic Cuts available (wherever you get your podcasts) including such comic guests as Brian Bolland, Peter Hogan, stars of Beano, a host of comedians and more. The new season starts later this month.
• Check out Comic Cuts The Panel Show – Steve Dillon bonus episode here on Buzzsprout
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Head downthetubes for…
• downthetubes: In Memoriam: Comic Artist Steve Dillon, A True Legend of Comics
• downthetubes: Remembering Steve Dillon, by Garth Ennis
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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Thanks for this – lovely insight into life as a young comics artist. When I started reading 2000AD a year or two before this interview I didn’t realise so many of the creators were in their 20s. A Steve Dillon panel was a formative moment for me. One of the first progs I saw (218 perhaps?) featured Mean Arena, specifically the Jensen family introduced in a variety of cool poses in a subway carriage. The phrase ‘malevolent seven’ caught my eye as a reference to one of my favourite films but even as a ten year old I could see there was something cool about the image. Fandom is a relationship and as a fan of 2000AD that Dillon panel was the eyes across a crowded room!
I didn’t know or meet Steve Dillon but I attended the same school as Brett Ewins and remember watching over his shoulder in the art room draw Marvel characters – another child prodigy whose work was displayed there in a small exhibition before he left to study at Goldsmith’s.
I didn’t know him that well, or at all, as a friend but his work was clearly up there.