description: World-famous cartoonist Dick Burger has earned millions and become the most powerful man in the comics industry in the few short years since the publication of his first CAPTAIN TOMORROW graphic novel. But behind his rapid rise to success, there lies a dark and terrible secret, as biographer Leonard Batts discovers when he visits Burger's hometown in remote New Zealand. For Hicksville is no ordinary small town. In Hicksville sheep-farmers and fishermen argue the relative merits of early newspaper strips, while in the local bookshop &amp; lending library, obscure Mongolian minicomics share the shelves with a complete run of ACTION COMICS. But why does everyone there seem to hate Dick Burger? And what is the secret of the lighthouse? HICKSVILLE collects the main storyline from the ignatz-award nominated comic book PICKLE, and includes some 40 or so pages of new or revised material.
language: English
title: Hicksville
titlecomplete: Hicksville
genres: Fiction, School, Adult, Comics, Comix, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics, Art, Bande Dessinée, Graphic Novels
ratings_count: 2132
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Prix du Festival d'Angoulême
category: Alph-art du meilleur album
publisher: Drawn & Quarterly