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Dylan Horrocks was born in 1966 in Auckland, New Zealand. He is the writer and artist of the Ignatz award-nominated comic book "Pickle", and his graphic novel "Hicksville" was named a book of the year by The Comics Journal.
He is currently working on a new series called "Atlas" and writing for the Vertigo imprint. He wrote "The Names of Magic" miniseries and he is the writer of the monthly title "Hunter: the Age of Magic". More info about him at www.hicksville.co.nz.
I still remember the first time I noticed Alan Moore's name.
I was 15 or 16 and an avid reader of the British weekly comic 2000AD, which I would pick up every Thursday on the way
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home and happily lose myself in for half an hour with an after-school snack.
This must have been around 1982, because ET was going great guns at the boxoffice and I guess the editors of 2000AD wanted to cash in on that with a cheap imitation of their own.
To their credit they gave the job to Alan Moore.
The resulting serial was called SKIZZ and by the end of the first episode
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I knew this was much more than a cheap Spielberg ripoff.
I looked up the name of the writer (or 'script droid' as 2000AD wryly put it) who'd taken such a lame brief and turned it into a tense, funny, moving and politically provocative story (complete with witty references to Alan Bleasdale's searing indictment of the unemployment-economy, "Boys from the Blackstuff").
It was an easy name to remember: "Alan Moore".
Before long, it was a name no-one could ignore.
American fans usually view "Swamp Thing" and "Watchmen" as Moore's breakthrough stories - the books with
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