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Notes on the Contributors vii
Introduction Jörn Ahrens Arno Meteling 1
I History, Comics, and the City
1 “Hully Gee, I'm a Hieroglyphe” — Mobilizing the Gaze and the Invention of Comics in New York City, 1895 Jens Balzer 19
2 Every Window Tells a Story: Remarks on the Urbanity of Early Comic Strips Ole Frahm 32
3 The City as Archive in Jason Lutes's Berlin Anthony Enns 45
II Refrofuturistic and Nostalgic Cities
4 “The Tomorrow That Never Was”—Retrofuturism in the Comics of Dean Motter Henry Jenkins 63
5 Remembrance of Things to Come: François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters's Cities of the Fantastic Stefanie Diekmann 84
6 Paris au pluriel: Depictions of the French Capital in Jacques Tardi's Comic Book Writing Michael Cuntz 101
III Superhero Cities
7 The Batman's Gotham City&Trade;: Story, Ideology, Performance William Uricchio 119
8 A Tale of Two Cities: Politics and Superheroics in Starman and Ex Machina Arno Meteling 133
9 The Radiant City: New York as Ecotopia in Promethea, Book V Anthony Lioi 150
10 “I Am New York”—Spider-Man, New York City and the Marvel Universe Jason Bainbridge 163
IV Locations of Crime
11 Will Eisner, Vaudevillian of the Cityscape Greg M. Smith 183
12 “A Fiction That We Must Inhabit”—Sense Production in Urban Spaces according to Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell Björn Quiring 199
13 The Ordinary Urban: 100 Bullets and the Clichés of Mass Culture Jörn Ahrens 214
V The City-Comic as a Mode of Reflection
14 Seeing the City through a Frame: Marc-Antoine Mathieu's Acquefacques Comics André Suhr 231
15 Calisota or Bust: Duckburg vs. Entenhausen in the Comics of Carl Barks Andreas Platthaus 247
16 Enki Bilal's Woman Trap: Reflections on Authorship under the Shifting Boundaries between Order and Terror in the City Thomas Becker 265
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Matt Britt
reviewed Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence on December 10, 2010
Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence
This collection by Ahrens and Meteling examines different approaches to the portrayals of cities in comic books. It's a pretty wide-ranging collection, including material on early comics (Hogan's Alley), superhero comics, and a nice range of European and American comics, although there's no consideration of the city as portrayed in manga. Alan Moore is particularly well represented, as there are essays on Promethea and From Hell, but there are also examinations of writers such as Carl Barks (Scrooge McDuck), Will Eisner, Brian K. Vaughan, James Robinson, Dean Motter and Jason Lutes. I particularly liked Meteling's essay on superheroes, and Henry Jenkins' essay on Mister X. While the theory is geared more towards comic books than cities per se, there is also a lot of application of the theories of people such as Umberto Eco, Michel de Certeau, and Foucault. As someone at least mildly familiar with comic book theory, I found it an interesting read.
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