Dylan Horrocks
@dylanhorrocks.bsky.social
Spills ink, rolls dice.
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillecomics.com
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This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
This is the way
October 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This is the way
One of the many evils the tech industry has inflicted on our lives is that when an Act of God forces everyone to stay home from work (wild weather, earthquake, pandemic), we're now expected to Work From Home (rather than have a day off like God intended).
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
One of the many evils the tech industry has inflicted on our lives is that when an Act of God forces everyone to stay home from work (wild weather, earthquake, pandemic), we're now expected to Work From Home (rather than have a day off like God intended).
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Personally, the main thing I think artists, musicians, writers, etc need sorted is the same thing most other people need sorted: cost of living.
October 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Personally, the main thing I think artists, musicians, writers, etc need sorted is the same thing most other people need sorted: cost of living.
Come create your graphic novel, picture book, animation, video game, boardgame, TTRPG, larp, visual novel, fictional world (or other weird & wonderful thing) with us! Apply (by Dec. 1) for the MFA in Visual Narrative at Victoria University of Wellington:
visualnarrativelab.nz/study-with-us
visualnarrativelab.nz/study-with-us
October 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Come create your graphic novel, picture book, animation, video game, boardgame, TTRPG, larp, visual novel, fictional world (or other weird & wonderful thing) with us! Apply (by Dec. 1) for the MFA in Visual Narrative at Victoria University of Wellington:
visualnarrativelab.nz/study-with-us
visualnarrativelab.nz/study-with-us
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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![[David Lynch looking awesome in sunglasses] i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:td4mnlpthftwg3sevrodjyql/bafkreiaku2dcu5a3zt3wod4w37bvgm4kawdliwyvwzujm53zxkjpnzlvhy@jpeg)
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My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Luxon giving his 'best' advice to unemployed youth...
#NzPol #Caricature #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Luxon
Luxon giving his 'best' advice to unemployed youth...
#NzPol #Caricature #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Luxon
October 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Luxon giving his 'best' advice to unemployed youth...
#NzPol #Caricature #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Luxon
Luxon giving his 'best' advice to unemployed youth...
#NzPol #Caricature #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Luxon
Meanwhile, in another, better, world...
🎉
Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent
Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations
www.irishtimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Meanwhile, in another, better, world...
It breaks my heart that this is both the correct thing to do & a sign of how awful things are right now. @marinaomi.bsky.social built something beautiful that helped make the comics industry (& community) better. Now they're taking it down to keep artists safe. ❤️❤️❤️
update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases
tldr: i am shuttering the databases and i am sad.
www.patreon.com/posts/139743...
tldr: i am shuttering the databases and i am sad.
www.patreon.com/posts/139743...
update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases | MariNaomi
Get more from MariNaomi on Patreon
www.patreon.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It breaks my heart that this is both the correct thing to do & a sign of how awful things are right now. @marinaomi.bsky.social built something beautiful that helped make the comics industry (& community) better. Now they're taking it down to keep artists safe. ❤️❤️❤️
Was that a spellckeck error?
September 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Was that a spellckeck error?
Chloe's body language says it all.
September 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Chloe's body language says it all.
Does anyone know this old (New Yorker?) cartoon I've been searching for?
How I remember it: two people walking out of a cinema that's showing 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar Ate New York.' One person says (something like): "I can't help feeling they missed the point of the book."
How I remember it: two people walking out of a cinema that's showing 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar Ate New York.' One person says (something like): "I can't help feeling they missed the point of the book."
September 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Does anyone know this old (New Yorker?) cartoon I've been searching for?
How I remember it: two people walking out of a cinema that's showing 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar Ate New York.' One person says (something like): "I can't help feeling they missed the point of the book."
How I remember it: two people walking out of a cinema that's showing 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar Ate New York.' One person says (something like): "I can't help feeling they missed the point of the book."
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one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar
September 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar
I'm blushing over here. Thank you, sir 😊
I read HICKSVILLE by @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social. A fictional story about the history of comics and a small town that is deeply tied to it. A staggeringly powerful love letter to the medium and the people who helped shape it.
Magical realism meets journalism meets (fictional) biography. Brilliant.
Magical realism meets journalism meets (fictional) biography. Brilliant.
September 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I'm blushing over here. Thank you, sir 😊
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
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We need to tax wealth not work.
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Idle — The Wealth Race
Can your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out!
therichdont.work
September 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We need to tax wealth not work.
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
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Really this thread is an excuse for me to, once again, share the love for Kia Mataara - a 13 part comic series about colonisation and it's ongoing impacts. Here's the link to the intro: natlib-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/...
natlib-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Really this thread is an excuse for me to, once again, share the love for Kia Mataara - a 13 part comic series about colonisation and it's ongoing impacts. Here's the link to the intro: natlib-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/...
Trying to remember two (sorta trippy) documentary films I saw in the 2000s(?) by a NZ filmmaker based in Japan. They both dealt with the emergence of a kind of animist digital culture: the internet as a spirit world & other weird fascinating ideas. Anyone know these films (or who made them)?
August 31, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Trying to remember two (sorta trippy) documentary films I saw in the 2000s(?) by a NZ filmmaker based in Japan. They both dealt with the emergence of a kind of animist digital culture: the internet as a spirit world & other weird fascinating ideas. Anyone know these films (or who made them)?
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Join renowned Sámi artist Inga-Wiktoria Påve for an illustration workshop that explores image, symbol, memory. Rooted in her Sámi heritage and duodji (craft), Inga will guide you to connect with your own culture through mark-making. No experience needed. Book at pukeariki.com/event/E29080...
August 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Join renowned Sámi artist Inga-Wiktoria Påve for an illustration workshop that explores image, symbol, memory. Rooted in her Sámi heritage and duodji (craft), Inga will guide you to connect with your own culture through mark-making. No experience needed. Book at pukeariki.com/event/E29080...
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@fantagraphics.bsky.social is having a sale to raise money for their legal battle with JP Morgan Chase and old Diamond.
Chase has legions of lawyers,so please think about visiting Fantagraphics.com and buying some of the best comics ever made!
Chase has legions of lawyers,so please think about visiting Fantagraphics.com and buying some of the best comics ever made!
August 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@fantagraphics.bsky.social is having a sale to raise money for their legal battle with JP Morgan Chase and old Diamond.
Chase has legions of lawyers,so please think about visiting Fantagraphics.com and buying some of the best comics ever made!
Chase has legions of lawyers,so please think about visiting Fantagraphics.com and buying some of the best comics ever made!
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Watching Bay of Fires on TVNZ+, a quirky mystery set in Tasmania, and one of the characters is reading Hicksville @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social !
August 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Watching Bay of Fires on TVNZ+, a quirky mystery set in Tasmania, and one of the characters is reading Hicksville @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social !
Any current or potential students want to do some research on children's books in Aotearoa?
If you're doing research in NZ about children's books, a friendly reminder that the Susan Price scholarship ($2500) closes end of Oct dnwfriends.nzl.org/index.php/ho...
Research Grant – DNW Friends
dnwfriends.nzl.org
August 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Any current or potential students want to do some research on children's books in Aotearoa?