A Cartoonist's Diary (excerpt)
Dreamed 2012/3/5 by Dylan Horrocks
EDITOR'S NOTES
This is just what it says: a page from Dylan's diary. So read it not as a polished comic, but as a dream-record. What jumps out at me is, Horrocks had already done something of what the dream suggests! His classic Hicksville (1998) shows a Kiwi town with a secret library of rare and brilliant comics--unpublished, barely published, commercial failures, unfinished, dreamed of... showing how comics publishers neglect and even cripple their own medium/art. An intricate blend of fiction and real history. Plus Maori culture. And nerd culture (and shyness, and humility, and the limitations that humility imposes.)
The dream might be a prompt to reissue Hicksville--except that he'd done that two years before the dream, in 2010.
So my best guess is... this dream's absolutely literal, no interpretation needed. It urges Dylan to edit a "New Zealand's Best" comics anthology. After all, who's better qualified? Who's a greater comics scholar? (Worldwide, I mean, not just NZ. He's read everything.) So why not?
Reader, he did. Later in 2012, Horrocks compiled a 110-page list/history of New Zealand comics. Not an anthology, and not comprehensive, but a good start. Viewable free at hicksvillepress.com/nzcomics
Also by Horrocks, also highly recommended:
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