Glyn Dillon
| Glyn Dillon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 |
| Nationality | British |
| Area(s) | artist, writer |
Notable works | The Nao of Brown |
| Awards |
Special Jury Prize, Angoulême International Comics Festival, 2013 Best Book, British Comic Awards 2013 |
Glyn Dillon (born 1971[1]) is a British comics and film storyboard and concept artist, best known for his 2012 graphic novel The Nao of Brown.
Biography and career
His father was a signwriter; his older brother Steve Dillon was also a comics artist.[2] He got his first job in comics at the age of 17, and worked in comics for seven years,[3] drawing "Planet Swerve", a strip about "art students in space" written by Alan Martin, for Deadline, and work for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, including the miniseries Egypt with writer Peter Milligan[2] and Shade, the Changing Man with the same writer.[1] He drew part of the "The Kindly Ones" story arc in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series.[4][5]
In the mid-1990s he left comics[2] and worked in film and television, primarily as a storyboard and concept artist,[1] as well as a period directing music promos for Ridley Scott's RSA Films. He shared a studio in London with Jamie Hewlett, and did some work on Hewlett's Gorillaz music and animation project.[2] In 2007 a gallery of his work appeared in the comic art magazine Swallow, and he began work on his graphic novel, The Nao of Brown. The story of a young woman with Primarily Obsessional OCD, it was published by SelfMadeHero in 2012[2] and won the Special Jury Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2013.[6] In 2013 he started working as a concept artist in the costume dept on Jupiter Ascending, he then went on to work, in the same capacity, on Kingsman: The Secret Service. He then became chief concept artist in the costume dept on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, for which, among other designs, he originated antagonist Kylo Ren's mask,[7] before being promoted to co-costume designer, alongside Dave Crossman, on the Star Wars Anthology film Rogue One.[1]
Bibliography
- 2000 AD (Fleetway Publications, #589, 644, 1988, 1989)
- Crisis (Fleetway Publications, #32, 40-41, 43-44, 1989-1990)
- Deadline (#24, 1990, Script by Alan Martin)
- Judge Dredd Mega-Special (Fleetway Publications, #4, 1991)
- The Sandman (DC/Vertigo, #62, 1994, script by Neil Gaiman)
- Shade the Changing Man (DC/Vertigo, #34, 38, 40-41, 46, 1994, script by Peter Milligan)
- Egypt (DC/Vertigo, 1995, script by Peter Milligan)
- The Nao of Brown (SelfMadeHero, 2012, ISBN 9781906838423)
Awards
- 2013: Angoulême Festival, Jury's Special Prize, for The Nao of Brown
- 2013: British Comics Awards, Best Book Category, for The Nao of Brown
- 2012: Broken Frontier Awards, Best Graphic Novel Category, for The Nao of Brown
- 2014: Treviso Comic Book Festival, Best Foreign Book Award, for "The Nao of Brown"
References
- 1 2 3 4 About: Glyn Dillon, SelfMadeHero
- 1 2 3 4 5 Mark Kardwell, Glyn Dillon on the past, the future and The Nao of Brown, Comic Book Resources, 8 October 2012
- ↑ Chris Mautner, The Now of Glyn: An Interview with Glyn Dillon, The Comics Journal, 24 October 2012
- ↑ Bender, Hy (1999). The Sandman Companion. DC Comics. p. 269. ISBN 978-1563894657.
- ↑ Burgas, Greg (7 January 2013). "Comics You Should Own – Sandman". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on 10 April 2014.
- ↑ Paul Gravett, Angoulême 2013: A Report, PaulGravett.com, 31 March 2013
- ↑ Jay Carlson, Indie Revolver Exclusive: An Early Look at a very Different Kylo Ren, Indie Revolver, 19 April 2015