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Comics and the City: Urban Space
in Print, Picture and Sequence. Ed. Jörn Ahrens and Arno
Meteling. Continuum, 2010. 288pp.
Paperback: ISBN-13:
978-0826440198
Hardcover: ISBN-13:
978-0826403896
Library of Congress:
PN6714 .C648 2010
Dewey: 741.5 22
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Editors' Information: Jörn Ahrens // Arno
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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.
Notes on the contributors ... vii
Jörn Ahrens and Arno Meteling: Introduction ... 1
I. History,
Comics, and the City
1. Jens Balzer: “Hully Gee, I’m a Hieroglyphe” – Mobilizing the Gaze
and the Invention of Comics in New York City, 1895 ... 19
2. Ole Frahm: Every Window Tells a Story: Remarks on the Urbanity of
Early Comic Strips ... 32
3. Anthony Enns: The City as Archive in Jason Lutes’ Berlin ... 45
II.
Retrofuturistic and Nostalgic Cities
4. Henry Jenkins: “The Tomorrow that Never Was” – Retrofuturism in the
Comics of Dean Motter ... 63
5. Stefanie Diekmann: Remembrance of Things to Come: François Schuiten
and Benoît Peeters’ Cities of the Fantastic ... 84
6. Michael Cuntz: Paris au pluriel: Depictions of the French Capital in
Jacques Tardi’s Comic Book Writing ... 101
III. Superhero
Cities
7. William Uricchio: The Batman’s Gotham City™: Story, Ideology,
Performance ... 119
8. Arno Meteling: A Tale of Two Cities: Politics, and Superheroics in
Starman and Ex Machina ... 133
9. Anthony Lioi: The Radiant City: New York as Ecotopia in Promethea,
Book V ... 150
10. Jason Bainbridge: “I am New York” – Spider-Man, New York City, and
the Marvel Universe ... 163
IV. Locations of
Crime
11. Greg M. Smith: Will Eisner, Vaudevillian of the Cityscape ... 183
12. Björn Quiring: “A Fiction That We Must Inhabit” – Sense Production
in Urban Spaces According to Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell ... 199
13. Jörn Ahrens: The Ordinary Urban: 100 Bullets and the Clichés of
Mass Culture ... 214
V. The City-Comic as a Mode of Reflection
14. André Suhr: Seeing the City through a Frame: Marc-Antoine Mathieu’s
Acquefacques Comics ... 231
15. Andreas Platthaus: Calisota or Bust: Duckburg vs. Entenhausen in
the Comics of Carl Barks ... 247
16. Thomas Becker: Enki Bilal’s Woman Trap: Reflections on Authorship
under the Shifting Boundaries between Order and Terror in the Cities ... 265
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