Dylan Horrocks was born in 1966, in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2002 he won the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition. His debut Graphic Novel, Hicksville, was published in 1992 by Black Eye, and has since been republished by Drawn & Quarterly. 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest urban area in New Zealand. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Eisner Award is given for creative achievement in comic books, one of the most prestigious such awards in North America. ... A graphic novel is a long-form comic book or manga; the comics analogue to a prose novel or novella. ... Hicksville is the name of some places in the United States of America: Hicksville, New York Hicksville, Ohio Hicksville is also used as an epithet, implying that a community is rustic and unsophisticated (in other words, a place where hicks live). ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Horrocks' art metamorphoses wildly to take in his characters' different approaches; in an interesting twist, loose cartoonish line drawings often characterise the 'real' world of the main story while more elaborate designs can be found in the secondary comics.
Horrocks' prologue to the story, which stars himself, implies that one of the "meta-comics" in the main story, the tale of Captain Cook in New Zealand, actually exists in our world, and although this is probably a literary conceit, one cannot say for certain.
Horrocks' scripting hand, like his cartooning hand, is never heavy, and his every creation bursts with believability.
DylanHorrocks may not be a name familiar to most readers, but for those who have been following his career it seemed inevitable that he'd be "discovered" by the big players in the comics business.
Horrocks' first project for DC is a relaunch of one of Vertigo's best-loved characters, Tim Hunter, first in a five issue mini-series, and then in a follow-up ongoing series.
DylanHorrocks: I was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, with few short stays in USA (about 1 year; my mother was born in Buffalo, New York) and Bouganville (about 5 months when I was a kid).
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