Hicksville

In Hicksville, Dylan Horrocks crafts a gentle, metafictional mystery set in a small New Zealand town that is a secret haven for comic book history and culture. First published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2010, this single-issue series follows a journalist who discovers that the locals—including a reclusive genius—are deeply entangled with the art form's past and its untold stories. Horrocks, writing and illustrating the entire work, uses the comic to explore the love, loss, and hidden lives behind the panels. It's a warm, quietly essential meditation on what comics mean to those who make and treasure them.