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Exploring urban life through comic book lenses.

If you've always found the bustling energy of cities fascinating, and you love the unique storytelling medium of comics, "Comics and the City" might intrigue you. It delves into how urban experiences have shaped and been captured by comics, making it an insightful read for both comic enthusiasts and urbanists who appreciate a blend of art, culture, and cityscapes as seen through the panels of a page.

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Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence

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ISBN: 9780826440198
Publisher: Continuum
Date of Publication: 2010-03-11
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art
Related Topics: Art Design, Architecture
Goodreads rating: 3.18
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Comics emerged parallel to, and in several ways intertwined with, the development of modern urban mass societies at the turn of the 20th century. On the one hand, urban topoi, self-portrayals, forms of urban cultural memories, and variant readings of the city (strolling, advertising, architecture, detective stories, mass phenomena, street life, etc.) are all incorporated into comics. On the other hand, comics have unique abilities to capture urban space and city life because of their hybrid nature, consisting of words, pictures, and sequences. These formal aspects of comics are also to be found within the cityscape itself: one can see the influence of comic book aesthetics all around us today. With chapters on the very earliest comic strips, and on artists as diverse as Alan Moore, Carl Barks, Will Eisner and Jacques Tardi, Comics and the City is an important new collection of international scholarship that will help to define the field for many years to come.
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Exploring urban life through comic book lenses.

If you've always found the bustling energy of cities fascinating, and you love the unique storytelling medium of comics, "Comics and the City" might intrigue you. It delves into how urban experiences have shaped and been captured by comics, making it an insightful read for both comic enthusiasts and urbanists who appreciate a blend of art, culture, and cityscapes as seen through the panels of a page.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.