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Considered to be a classic by many, Hicksville was named a "Book of the Year" by The Comics Journal and received nominations for two Ignatz Awards, a Harvey Award and two Alph'Art Awards (Best Album and the Critics' Prize).
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 this 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 and 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 Kupe's Lighthouse?
Weaving together real and imagined histories of the much-maligned medium of comics and the often marginalised country of New Zealand, Hicksville is a moving comment on art, business and the importance of turangawaewae - finding a place to stand...