BIOGRAPHY:

Glenn Dakin has been writing and drawing comics since the age of six and was heavily influenced by the Peanuts and BC comic strips. After a foundation year at Cambridge, he studied illustration at Manchester Polytechnic. Glenn met Eddie Campbell and Phil Elliott in the 1980's and became a central figure in the UK small press scene producing self-published (ie photocopied) titles like Dakin's Weekly, Plaster The Man From Paris, Captain Oblivion and Temptation. His work also appeared in many UK and US anthology titles of the time (Fast Fiction, Sinister Romance, Escape, Deadline, Pssst!, Honk, Primecuts, Fox). In 1991 Penguin Books published a collection of his Temptation strips which answered the question Can a man be tempted to sell his soul? and in 2001 a long overdue collection of his Abe stories was finally published. Glenn has written comics for Marvel, a variety of children's books and since 1998 he has a weekly strip, Robot Crusoe, appearing in the Funday Times supplement of The Sunday Times.

Interviews:
The Comics Journal #238 (2001)

Resources:
Top Shelf Productions: Abe Comics
Dakin Weekly Online
Glenn Dakin at Creative Media Management

Reviews:
Time.com: Abe
iComics: Abe

Temptation
Active Images, 1991
The eternal question - can a man be tempted to sell his soul? Will he sell it for the love of a beautiful woman? For a chance to speak to the Well of Truth? Or for a rather nifty kitchen blender? In the middle of a remote desert one man fights a deadly battle of wits - with man's oldest enemy.

Abe: Wrong For All The Right Reasons
Top Shelf, 2001
A collection of 48 philosophical and humorous stories featuring Abraham Rat which originally appeared in a myriad of self-published and British comic magazines (including Escape, Deadline, Fast Fiction) since the 1980's.

"God like reflective genius."
New Musical Express

"Back when we were doing our little photocopied comics (what I term 'small press') in the 80's, we constantly challenged each other to take the comics form in new directions. Dakin evolved in exciting ways in his Abe stories. They were autobiographical, but more concerned with the inner life than the physical one... He's arrived at a visual poetry, with the pictures distilled to deft strokes, playing the role of calligraphy."
Eddie Campbell (from the introduction)

"Glenn Dakin's early Abe stories ingeniously fold conventional comic book narrative, superheroes and sci-fi, into works of whimsy and reflection. His subversive use of a superman icon pre-dates Chris Ware's similar usage (though without the bitter irony) by more than a decade. Then by the early nineties he uses comix in wildly experimental ways, mixing poetry, philosophy, fiction and non-fiction into a totally idiosyncratic vision."
Andrew D Arnold, Time.com

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Abe: Wrong For All The Right Reasons (2001)
Temptation (1991)