Hicksville is quite high in my pantheon of graphic novels, and probably at the top of fictional graphic novels that are at heart about the comic book art form. I hadn't read it in about 10 years, and my first copy was falling apart. When I was in Wellington, NZ in 2022 I purchased a fresh copy and had it signed by Dylan when I met with him. But I only delved into it recently, and was immediately taken in by that magic where narration and meta narration play together with great virtuosity. I don't think I had realised how ahead of its time Hicksville was when it was released: many of the motifs and structural ideas I saw in subsequent works. I realise also that I'm probably missing out on a lot of the references, but that's OK, because comics are a vast and rich field and you can't know it all.
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