Pickle #2

Pickle

by Dylan Horrocks

Hicksville, Letter from Catwoman, Cafe Underground (interlude), Halfway to Heaven, Halfway to Hell and Men That Perish Ten issues of the comic book Pickle were published between 1993 and 1997 by Black Eye Books. It included the serialisation of Hicksville and other one-off strips, plus the first 4 chapters of another serial Cafe Underground (as yet unfinished). There was going to be an issue 11, but this never came out (it appeared instead as the concluding chapter of the Hicksville graphic novel). Pickle was nominated for two Ignatz Awards in 1997 (best art and best story) and was named #13 in Chris Staros' list of the top 200 comics of all time (The Staros Report).

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Horrocks has been involved in the New Zealand comic scene since the mid 1980s, when he co-founded Razor with Cornelius Stone and had his work published in the University of Auckland student magazine Craccum. Later in the decade he began to get international recognition, having work published by Australia's Fox Comics and the American Fantagraphics Books. He then moved to the United Kingdom where he self-published several mini-comics and co-founded Le Roquet, a comics annual. Upon returning to New Zealand in the mid 1990s, Horrocks had a half-page strip called 'Milo's Week' in the current affairs magazine New Zealand Listener from 1995 to 1997. He also produced Pickle, published by Black Eye Comics, in which the 'Hicksville' story originally appeared. Hicksville was published in book form in 1998, achieving considerable critical success. French, Spanish and Italian editions have since been published. In the last decade Horrocks has written and drawn a wide range of projects including scripts for Vertigo's Hunter: The Age of Magic and the Batgirl series, and Atlas, published by Drawn and Quarterly.
Horrocks' work has been displayed at the Auckland Art Gallery and Wellington's City Gallery. In 2002 Hicksville won an Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition, and the same year Atlas was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best Single Issue or Story in 2002. In 2006 he was appointed University of Auckland/Creative New Zealand Literary Fellow.[1]
In an interview with Comics Bulletin, Horrocks claimed that his first words were 'Donald Duck'.