Art Installation - Dylan Horrocks
Tuesday, 20th May 2025 at 9:00am
Admire the 'Reading Room' door and step inside to a world of books within Green Bay High School's library.
Originally created by GBHS past pupil Dylan Horrocks (1979 - 1983) in 1981 as a novel piece of comic art for B Block's Reading Room, the door has now been relocated to its new premises and takes pride of place as part of the school's library entrance.
Dylan is now an internationally recognised published author having worked as a cartoonist, writer and illustrator for over 30 years. Perhaps it was his 'infamous' illustrated cartoon cover of the 1979 Green Bay High School magazine and subsequent comic strips that led Dylan down the path to a brilliant career?
“Oh, do you still have that crazy door?” said Dylan, when recently asked about his infamous door. “A group of friends contributed details, and we had a drawing party.”
Collaborating with novelists, scientists, poets, filmmakers and artists, Dylan's work includes comic books, graphic novels, political cartoons, poem comics, prose fiction, children's books, and essays. Dylan has drawn comic strips for magazines and books within New Zealand, Australia, England, USA, France and Canada, and regularly lectures on comics to university, polytech and graphics students.
His Graphic novel 'Hicksville' published in 1998 has been reprinted and translated into numerous languages and was named as Book of the Year by The Comics Journal, and one of the best graphic novels of all time by Rolling Stone.
In 2002 Hicksville won an Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition, and the same year Horrocks' Atlas was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best Single Issue or Story in 2002.
In 2006 Dylan was appointed University of Auckland/Creative New Zealand Literary Fellow. In 2016, he was named an Arts Laureate by the New Zealand Arts Foundation.
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