Dylan Horrocks's Blog, page 28

'The Journey' - a new comic by me for Waitakere City

Here's one of the reasons I've been busy lately - a 16-page comic by me, commissioned by Waitakere City Council. 'The Journey' gives a little history of the city, including how it became New Zealand's first eco city. Waitakere have made the comic available for download from here.

I spent much of my childhood in Waitakere and have been impressed by its evolution into a genuinely environmentally-concerned eco city. It's a damn shame that the government seems hell-bent on making Waitakere disappear

Summer/Winter reading list

The fine Canadian comics blog Sequential is posting Summer Reading Lists by various comics folks, and my one is here. Of course, it's winter down here in New Zealand, but then I actually read most of my picks over the summer anyway, so whatever.

New page - The American Dream

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Apologies for the hiatus, but it's over now. In the meantime, I made the largest drawing I've ever done (10m x 1.5m), illustrated a billboard, and some other stuff - all of which I'll blog about soon.

Hicksville new edition: cover

Here’s the cover for the new edition of Hicksville, which is due in 2010 from Drawn & Quarterly.

The new edition has been redesigned (I’ve rescanned the artwork, given the pages a wider margin, and am redoing the ‘look’ of the whole package) and will also include a 12-page introduction (in comics form) by me.

Of course, I’ll keep you all informed as it gets closer to the publication date.

I’m in Hastings for Youth Week: ‘What’s the Story?’

I’m going to be giving some talks and workshops in Hastings next week, as part of their Youth Week storytelling festival:

What’s the Story?

Oral, visual and written story-telling

Youth Week 25 - 29 May 2009

“Storytelling is a common form of communication that people engage in, using different channels, nearly every day. It is sharing a tale of experiences, either real or imaginary” - Marsh Cassidy

I’m doing three public sessions:

Writers Q & A
- An interactive writers and illustrators Talk with Ann

NZ comics blog: From Earth’s End

Adrian Kinnaird has started a new blog following comics and pop culture in New Zealand. He’s reporting on locally produced comics, as well as comics-related events (the Wolverine movie launch, Free Comics Day in Onehunga, etc). He’s also made a really beautiful banner for the site (see above)! Let’s hope Adrian also posts some of his own very fine comics…

New page: The American Dream

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New page (at last!): The American Dream

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In the media…

The comics exhibition at Bath Street Gallery is reviewed at eyeCONTACT.

And the New Zealand Herald recently interviewed me about my “fear of comics” (as documented in The Last Fox Story) for a story about phobias, which is published today. It’s not online yet (it appears in their ‘Canvas’ Saturday magazine, and those stories don’t always appear on the website), but I’ll link to it when it does show up.

The Herald also apparently has a review of the Bath Street show, but I’m not sure when that’s b

Sorry for the pause…

A quick apology for not posting any new pages for a little while; I’ve been horribly busy, between kids’ school holidays, some freelance stuff, and working on the Hicksville new edition - among other things. I’ll try real hard to get some new stuff up soon!