"Comics and the City" deals with possibly the most important aspect
of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and
environment. This collection of essays covers a variety of
international approaches from the three main comic book cultures:
the U.S., Europe, and Japan. "Comics and the City" deals with
possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives
of comics - urban topography and environment. This collection of
essays covers a variety of international approaches from the three
main comic book cultures: the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Not only is
the city depicted repeatedly in comic books, but it also serves as
a major structural and aesthetic influence on them. 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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