Glyn Dillon

Glyn Dillon, born in 1971, is a British comics and storyboard artist, best known for his 2012 graphic novel The Nao of Brown.

His father was a signwriter; his older brother Steve is also a comics artist. He got his first job in comics at the age of 17, and worked in comics for seven years, 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, Shade, the Changing Man with the same writer, and an issue of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.

In the mid-1990s he left comics and worked in film in television, primarily as a storyboard and concept artist, 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. 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 and won the Special Jury Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2013. He has also worked in illustration and toy design.

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