Dylan Horrocks

"Sans serif is woke" has definitely been my favourite story of the year. And it keeps getting better.

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Minute papillon! The 285 Manifesto girlcott halts the 2026 Angoulême Festival - The Comics Journal What's happening with the 285 Manifesto, the unprecedented girlcott against the 2026 Angoulême Festival by Maïa Hamilcaro-Berlin with Marlene Agius.

RIP the 2026 Angoulême Comics Festival. @comicsjournal.bsky.social has a good backgrounder on how mismanagement, ego, and misogyny derailed Europe's greatest comics festival:
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CARTOONISTS HOLD POWER TO ACCOUNT. HELP US DEFEND THEM. PLEASE HELP US DEFEND CARTOONISTS’ RIGHTS WITH A DONATION to cartoonistsrights/org/donate In a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, a gargantuan fist bears down from the upper right corner, and is held at bay by a cartoonist seated at her drawing board; she is drawing with pencil in her right hand and holds up a bullhorn in her left.

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The Visual Narrative Lab: A Place for Storytellers Dylan Horrocks and Zach Dodson have created a university programme that their younger selves dreamed about. They are co-founders of The Visual Narrative Lab: a place for visualisers and world-builders

Recently, my colleague Zach Dodson and I sat down to chat with B-Side Stories on @wgtnaccessradio.bsky.social about comics, games, and the Visual Narrative Lab: soundcloud.com/b-side-broad...

That alt text is *chef's kiss*

The Mystery Note A lyric game in comic form

Inspired by @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social's 'Lonely Fun' zine - @taracomics.bsky.social has another RPG for you to enjoy taracomics.substack.com/p/the-myster...

Yes, I agree! I'm on board with your point in this specific case; just that it's not always so. (And if only some bloody govt would have the guts to follow the recommendations of multiple electoral reviews to remove the overhang rule, it would never be a problem!)

But yeah (barring an upset), it's probably only of symbolic significance for the Greens in 2026...

This is complicated by the threshold and overhang rules, which can distort simple proportionality, espec if a party is hovering around the threshold. It's a stupid rule but there've been elections in the past when winning an electorate has saved a party & some where the Greens have been on the edge.

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

And Dad Jokes will now be called Bat Jokes

This is an object lesson in storytelling.

#Gamification

An illustration of a young women yanking a weed out of a bed of marigolds. The primary colours of the piece are deep green and a saffron yellow, with some brown and moss green tones as well. The camera is looking up at the young girl with a forced perspective, as she pulls out the weed while leaning back. The text reads: PULL FASCISM UP BY THE ROOT.

👩‍🌾 Grab your tools

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

#3157 A helpful tutorial

A gentleman wearing a transparent puffer jacket filled with Tsingtao beer he is drinking through an internal straw.

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

A reminder: if you're interested in our creative practice-based MFA in Visual Narrative at Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka, applications are open for two more weeks (until December 1st). Also, we now have a sparkling redesigned website! www.visualnarrativelab.nz

Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.

I've been listening to music with my Dad since I was born. I can't begin to count the wonderful sounds he's introduced me to over the years. What he loves, he once told me, is "learning how to listen to something new." This book is the culmination of a lifetime of learning how to listen well.

Book launch for Music Without End: a Book of Listening, by Roger Horrocks. At Lamplight Books, G01/100 Parnell Road, Parnell. 3:30pm, Sunday 23 November. Introduced by Wystan Curnow. All welcome

Book launch for Music Without End: a Book of Listening, by Roger Horrocks. At Unity Books, 57 Willis St, Wellington. 5pm, Sunday 30 November. Introduced by Chris Bourke. All welcome

Back over of Music Without End: a Book of Listening, by Roger Horrocks. What is listening? How does music work? Music Without End: A Book of Listening will introduce you to unfamiliar areas of music and spark new insights into the nature and pleasures of listening. Besides providing an unusually wide-ranging, accessible survey of the landscape of music, and the various ways we listen, it features interviews with ten people deeply involved in the field – composers, singers, and sound specialists – working in popular, jazz, classical, experimental or global music. If you’re a listener who enjoys only some of those genres, this book can revolutionize your interest in them all. “This book is a must read for anyone with music in their lives. Horrocks’s passion for music in its broadest spectrum is inspiration to get out there and hear what’s going on. You don’t know what you are missing! It’s an insightful exploration through time and location of that amazing phenomenon we call music.” – Peter Scholes (composer, performer, conductor) “Roger Horrocks is up with the zeitgeist, from esoteric punk to arcane European avant-garde. He has kept me happily guessing for decades by suggesting new music names to me. From Ars Subtilior to Wandelweiser, Horrocks leads the reader gently by the ear into his world of listening, and we’re enchanted.” – Eve de Castro-Robinson (composer) This Book of Listening is a sequel to Roger Horrocks’s 2022 Book of Seeing. Horrocks was the author of Len Lye: A Biography and Song of the Ghost in the Machine, which were both finalists in the NZ Book Awards. He was also the librettist of Len Lye: The Opera.

My fabulous Dad, Roger Horrocks, has a brand new book out, with launch events in Auckland (this Sunday 23 November) and Wellington (Sunday 30 November). If you're into music, sound, listening, thinking, or reading, this book is for you! 🎶 atuanuipress.co.nz/product/musi...

OMG 😍

Also, #lyricgames

This is peak online RP

This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding

This is the way

One of the many evils the tech industry has inflicted on our lives is that when an Act of God forces everyone to stay home from work (wild weather, earthquake, pandemic), we're now expected to Work From Home (rather than have a day off like God intended).

Personally, the main thing I think artists, musicians, writers, etc need sorted is the same thing most other people need sorted: cost of living.

A group of eager anthropomorphic artists on a tiny island, hard at work on their visual narrative masterpieces! (cartoon by Dylan Horrocks)

Come create your graphic novel, picture book, animation, video game, boardgame, TTRPG, larp, visual novel, fictional world (or other weird & wonderful thing) with us! Apply (by Dec. 1) for the MFA in Visual Narrative at Victoria University of Wellington:
visualnarrativelab.nz/study-with-us