Yet distance and progress, such as the web-comic, in no way undermines this love letter to print.Īt its most linear, Hicksville is the tale of Leonard Batts, a self-important comics journalist who’s travelled to New Zealand in order to research Dick Burger in his remote home town. Dylan Horrocks switches styles to induce an atmosphere of magical realism and there are knowing nods to the comics world, at least as it was in the mid-1990s, which are often very amusing.
Hicksville is where the locals treasure comics and the library stocks Action Comics #1.Hicksville is a rich, rewarding and immensely emotional statement about the power of comics as a form, eschewing genre classification. However, behind his rapid rise to success, there lies a dark and terrible secret, as biographer Leonard Batts discovers when he visits Burger�s hometown of Hicksville in remote New Zealand. World-famous cartoonist Dick Burger has earned millions and become the most powerful man in the comics industry. Considered to be a classic by many, Hicksville was named a ï¿❛ook of the Year� by The Comics Journal and received nominations for two Ignatz Awards, a Harvey Award and two Alphï¿❚rt Awards (Best Album and the Critics� Prize).
One of the first contemporary graphic novels is now back in print with a new cover and introduction. is a classic.�ï¿❚ustin American Statesman Ï¿❚ languid, Borgesian tale of love and theft that treats comics - and an unabashed love of the medium's folksy energy and rhythms - with poetic weight. Ï¿½ is at once a celebration of the richness of the comics artform� - Detroit Metro Times He knows what he�s doing.� �Frank Miller (Dark Knight Returns) His characters grab you and haunt you and even make you worry for them.
Ï¿❝ylan Horrocks is clever, funny, and very, very good at making comic books. One of the best graphic novels of the past decade, back in print.
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