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By: Coming up in January » Comics Worth Reading

Coming up in January » Comics Worth Reading — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:44:59 +0000

[...] (NOV09 0750, Drawn & Quarterly, $19.95) is one of the books on my Comic Classics list, my take on a comic canon consisting of graphic novels everyone should be familiar with. This [...]

By: Journalista » Blog Archive » Oct. 5, 2006: Who do I look like? Dick Tracy?

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:58:49 +0000

[...] Johanna Draper Carlson reviews Dylan Horrocks’ classic graphic novel Hicksville. [...]

By: Dirk Deppey

Dirk Deppey — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:46:16 +0000

I’ve always heard the quote in question attributed to Charles Schulz, actually.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:33:01 +0000

You’re welcome. I’m sorry it took me so long to get to such a great book. And thank you for stopping by and answering that question.

By: Dylan Horrocks

Dylan Horrocks — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:42:04 +0000

Thanks for the lovely review, Johanna! Very generous. :-)

As for the Kirby quote, I found it at the back of a Vertigo graphic novel called ‘Seven Miles a Second’ by David Wojnarowicz and James Romberger. In Romberger’s author biographical note, he describes meeting Kirby at a convention and says Kirby spoke those words to him. When I read that, a million bells went off in my head…

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:58:01 +0000

Great question. I couldn’t find anything in a quick search, though.

By: Tommy Raiko

Tommy Raiko — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:53:09 +0000

Does anyone know the citation for that Kirby quote? “Comics will break your heart” is certainly a haunting sentiment to have come from The King, but understandable too. I’d love to know more of the context in which he said it…