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Hicksville

Dylan Horrocks

One of the best graphic novels of the past decade, back in print.

Considered to be a classic by many, Hicksville was named a Book of the Year by The Comics Journal and received nominations for two Ignatz Awards, a Harvey Award, and two Alph'Art Awards (Best Album and the Critics' Prize). It was one of the first contemporary graphic novels and is now back in print with a new cover and introduction. The world-famous cartoonist Dick Burger has earned millions and become the most powerful man in the comics industry. However, behind his rapid rise to success there lies a dark and terrible secret, as the biographer Leonard Batts discovers when he visits Burger's hometown of Hicksville in remote New Zealand. Hicksville is where the locals treasure comics and the library stocks Action Comics #1.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
  • Publish Date: Jul 1st, 2014
  • Pages: 264
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.74in - 6.60in - 0.75in - 1.01lb
  • EAN: 9781770460027
  • Categories: Literary

About the Author

Seth: - Seth is the cartoonist behind the graphic novel Clyde Fans. His comics have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Best American Comics, and McSweeney's Quarterly. His illustrations have appeared on the cover of The New Yorker, The Walrus, and Canadian Notes & Queries. He designs collections of work by Charles Schulz, John Stanley, and Doug Wright, and was the subject of a National Film Board documentary entitled Seth's Dominion. Seth lives in Guelph, Canada in a house he has named Inkwell's End.

Praise for this book

"Dylan Horrocks is clever, funny, and very, very good at making comic books. His characters grab you and haunt you and even make you worry for them. Buy this guy's comics.He knows what he's doing." --FRANK MILLER, author of Dark Knight Returns

"[Hicksville] is . . . a celebration of the richness of the comics artform." --Detroit Metro Times

"A 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. [Hicksville] is a classic." --Austin American-Statesman