Deconstructing Comics #598: Dylan Horrocks Looks Back At Hicksville
by Hannah Means Shannon
We welcome back the Deconstructing Comics Podcast tonight, this time talking with esteemed guest, cartoonist Dylan Horrocks:
Twenty years after the first collection of Hicksville
was released, creator Dylan Horrocks talks to Emmet about how the comic looks to him now. Some of the work’s commentary on the comics industry turned out to presage subsequent developments, and in some cases he ended up not going far enough! Also, his source for a Jack Kirby quote that many experts were unaware of; the public’s misinterpretation of the term “graphic novel”; the explosion of female and minority comics creators, especially outside of the Big Two; and more.
Listen up below!