![]() ![]() While hardly bitter about the experience he does confess that “ the first time in my life I was making comics I couldn’t respect.” And when juxtaposed with earlier pages concerning his childhood love affair with comics, this passage effectively previews the book’s compelling themes of corruption and innocence, making the entire section feel more like a prologue than an intro.įocusing on the rise to fame of comics superstar Dick Burger, who left his titular hometown in New Zealand to find fortune and fanboy adulation in the U.S., much of Hicksville reads like a pointedly satirical look at comics culture from the inside-out. Recently reissued by Drawn and Quarterly, Hicksville now includes an inspired new introduction in comics format by Dylan Horrocks in which he recounts the work he undertook for “big American comics companies” in the wake of the book’s initial success. ![]() ![]() First published in 1998, Hicksville has earned a quite a reputation among serious readers of graphic novels (even though it calls itself, significantly, a “comic book”) and right away it’s easy to see why: It’s a dark, knowing celebration of the medium, past, present and (probably) future. ![]()
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