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Our conclusion offers a close reading of Dylan Horrocks’s Hicksville, suggesting that the book illustrates through the movement of its characters all of the concerns that we have raised in the book: the tension between art and commerce, between the popular and the avant-garde, and between generic traditions and innovation within the field.
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“Sweeping Out the Lighthouse: The Dylan Horrocks Interview,” by Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Journal 243 (May 2002): 65.
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Pierre Bourdieu, The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996), 3.
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Dylan Horrocks, Hicksville (Montreal, QC: Drawn and Quarterly, 2001), [135].
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Horrocks, Hicksville, [135].
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“Sweeping Out the Lighthouse,” 65.
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Horrocks, Hicksville, [220–21].
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Horrocks, Hicksville, [71].
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Horrocks, Hicksville, [204].
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“Sweeping Out the Lighthouse,” 64.
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Horrocks, Hicksville, [199].
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Dylan Horrocks, “Inventing Comics: Scott McCloud’s Definition of Comics,” The Comics Journal 234 (June 2001): 29–39.
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Luc Boltanski, “The Constitution of the Comics Field,” in The French Comics Theory Reader, ed. Ann Miller and Bart Beaty (Leuven, BE: Leuven University Press, 2014), 281.
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Horrocks, Hicksville, [233].
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Beaty, B., Woo, B. (2016). Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?. In: The Greatest Comic Book of All Time. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53162-9_12
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