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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

12.  Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?

Authors : Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo

Published in: The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

Our conclusion offers a close reading of Dylan Horrocks’s Hicksville, suggesting that the book illustrates through the movement of its characters all of the concerns that we have raised in the book: the tension between art and commerce, between the popular and the avant-garde, and between generic traditions and innovation within the field.

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Footnotes
1
“Sweeping Out the Lighthouse: The Dylan Horrocks Interview,” by Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Journal 243 (May 2002): 65.
 
2
Pierre Bourdieu, The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996), 3.
 
3
Dylan Horrocks, Hicksville (Montreal, QC: Drawn and Quarterly, 2001), [135].
 
4
Horrocks, Hicksville, [135].
 
5
“Sweeping Out the Lighthouse,” 65.
 
6
Horrocks, Hicksville, [220–21].
 
7
Horrocks, Hicksville, [71].
 
8
Horrocks, Hicksville, [204].
 
9
“Sweeping Out the Lighthouse,” 64.
 
10
Horrocks, Hicksville, [199].
 
11
Dylan Horrocks, “Inventing Comics: Scott McCloud’s Definition of Comics,” The Comics Journal 234 (June 2001): 29–39.
 
12
Luc Boltanski, “The Constitution of the Comics Field,” in The French Comics Theory Reader, ed. Ann Miller and Bart Beaty (Leuven, BE: Leuven University Press, 2014), 281.
 
13
Horrocks, Hicksville, [233].
 
Metadata
Title
Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?
Authors
Bart Beaty
Benjamin Woo
Copyright Year
2016
Book
The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-56196-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-53162-9

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53162-9_12