Story: Comics and graphic novels

More links and websites

• Censored: a short history of censorship in New Zealand

  This 1989 report from the Department of Internal Affairs includes information about the ‘comics scare’.

• The Comics Show

  An excerpt from a 2007 television documentary about comics, on the NZ On Screen site.

• From earth’s end

  A New Zealand comics blog by Adrian Kinnaird.

• Hicksville Press

  The website of comic artist Dylan Horrocks.

• Pikitia Press

  A small press publishing New Zealand and Australian comics, with a blog focusing on contemporary comics and cartooning history.

More suggestions and sources

• Gruesome!: the influence of comics on contemporary New Zealand artists. Christchurch: McDougall Contemporary Art Annex, 1999.

• Horrocks, Dylan, ed. New Zealand comics and graphic novels. Auckland: Hicksville Press, 2012.

• Kinnaird, Adrian. From Earth’s end: the best of New Zealand comics. Auckland: Godwit, 2013.