Dylan Horrocks's Blog, page 26
February 1, 2010
Charity art auction: buy a page from Atlas and help Ella
This week I'm selling a page of original art from Atlas #1 on TradeMe to help raise money for some very dear friends of ours, whose daughter Ella has growing problems with her eyesight. Ella is one of the loveliest, sweetest kids I know, but her case is unusual enough that numerous tests and treatments have failed to nail the problem.
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Now Ella's been offered a rare opportunity to have her medical problems looked at by some of the world's most qualified experts at an...
January 22, 2010
The Tango Collection
I recently wrote a foreword for The Tango Collection - a big fat book of comics about love by over 50 Australian cartoonists (plus a few New Zealanders, including Jared Lane, Tim Molloy and Toby Morris). The comics are selected from eight issues of Bernard Caleo's love comics anthology Tango, each issue of which is organised around a theme (Love & Death, Love & Food, Love & Sedition, etc). The book is published by Allen & Unwin and is available now!
You can read my foreword below, or else...
January 21, 2010
Exhibition: 'Taste' at Auckland Art Gallery
A page from Hicksville (the 'Bushells Dairy' page) is in this show at the Auckland Art Gallery until 14 February 2010. The exhibition brings together a bunch of art about food, from some lovely Robin White weavings to work by Andy Warhol, Breughel and Ed Ruscha. There's even a huge crocheted octopus and a wall of chocolate fish - which you're supposed to eat!
The 'Bushells' dairy I based my drawing on is a famous landmark of Auckland, photographed by Robin Morrison and painted by other...
January 20, 2010
Go to this if you're in Auckland!
Find out more from Tiny Kitten Teeth or The High Seas.
January 18, 2010
New story: My World
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'My World' was drawn for Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption - a book of comics put together by the remarkable Paul Gravett for UK-based charity Ctrl.Alt.Shift (who use online and traditional media and activism to work against global injustice). I initially intended to illustrate someone else's story describing their own encounter with corruption somewhere in the world, but in the end I opted for a much more personal strip responding to the whole theme.For more on t...
New story: Cornucopia (warning: contains nudity)
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This is a story I drew for The Lifted Brow - an amazing Australian journal. This issue (no.6) consists of a book and two CDs and was conceived as an Atlas of the world - with a story, poem or song for each and every country. When the editor asked me what country I'd like to do a story about, I immediately said Cornucopia, of course. He heartily approved of the idea, and so I set to work.After I'd sent the story to The Lifted Brow, I made a couple of tiny changes to...
January 15, 2010
New page: The American Dream
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January 13, 2010
New page: The Magic Pen
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New page: The Magic Pen
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December 15, 2009
Happy holidays!
As you may have noticed, things have been quiet here, as I was working awfully hard getting the new edition of Hicksville ready, plus drawing a couple of new stories (one for the mindblowing Australian magazine/journal/book/event The Lifted Brow [illustrated above:], and another for the British activist charity book Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption) - both of which I'll post on properly soon.
I also wrote (and illustrated) the foreword for the Tango collection (romance comics by more than 50 A...
