Dylan Horrocks

Dylan Horrocks is a comic book writer and comic artist born in 1966, in Auckland, New Zealand. He is best known for his graphic novel Hicksville and his scripts for the Batgirl comic book series.

His works are published by the University of Auckland student magazine Craccum, Australia's Fox Comics, the American Fantagraphics Books, the current affairs magazine New Zealand Listener from 1995 to 1997, Black Eye Comics, Vertigo, and in Drawn and Quarterly. He currently serialises new work online at .

Early life

In an interview with Comics Bulletin, Horrocks claimed that his first words were 'Donald Duck'., Comics Bulletin

Career

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...
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