![]() As an artist who is double marginalized, as a comic book artist and as a New Zealander, Horrocks is concerned with the effects globalization and market-pressure have on both local culture and personal creativity. It’s a story about comics: about their unfulfilled promise as an art form and their sad state as an industry. This nesting effect reminds me of one of my favorite movies, The Saragossa Manuscript, in which we are at one point watching a story being told in a story being told in a story told in a story…ĭylan Horrocks’ Hicksville is a comic book about comic books. (Both Watchmen and Maus also used this technique.) At one point, here, we are even reading a comic inside a comic inside a comic. ![]() ![]() ![]() It contains various “pure comic” effects, the most obvious being the way it shifts to being a comic book featured within a comic book, so that in one panel you are reading about a character looking at a comic book and then in the next panel you are reading a panel of the comic he is reading. ![]() Like Watchmen and Maus, this is a “pure comic,” by which I mean that this could only be done in the medium of comic books. ![]()
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