Comics And The City

Author : Jörn Ahrens
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826440193
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comics and the City written by Jörn Ahrens and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes international essays on possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment.

Author : Jörn Ahrens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441130802
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comics and the City written by Jörn Ahrens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Frank Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781878574596
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sin City written by Frank Miller and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychopathic hard man, Marvin, is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the murderer of his lover, Goldie, and the police. As he teams up with Goldie's twin sister and friends, he finds himself taking on the corrupt authorities and the influential man behind it all - Cardinal Rock.--Amazon.com.

Author : Dominic Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351054481
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Comics written by Dominic Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studies and urban studies, offering a decolonisation and reconfiguration of both of these already interdisciplinary fields. With chapter-length discussions of comics from cities such as Cairo, Cape Town, New Orleans, Delhi and Beirut, this book shows how artistic collectives and urban social movements working across the global South are producing some of the most exciting and formally innovative graphic narratives of the contemporary moment. Throughout, the author reads an expansive range of graphic narratives through the vocabulary of urban studies to argue that these formal innovations should be thought of as a kind of infrastructure. This ‘infrastructural form’ allows urban comics to reveal that the built environments of our cities are not static, banal, or depoliticised, but rather highly charged material spaces that allow some forms of social life to exist while also prohibiting others. Built from a formal infrastructure of grids, gutters and panels, and capable of volumetric, multi-scalar perspectives, this book shows how urban comics are able to represent, repair and even rebuild contemporary global cities toward more socially just and sustainable ends. Operating at the intersection of comics studies and urban studies, and offering large global surveys alongside close textual and visual analyses, this book explores and opens up the fascinating relationship between comics and graphic narratives, on the one hand, and cities and urban spaces, on the other.

Author : Insight Editions
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 168383481X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DC Comics: Villains of Gotham City (Tiny Book) written by Insight Editions and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the mysteries of Batman's Gotham City in this miniature art book. Throughout Batman's rich comic book history his home of Gotham City has been a minefield of dangerous foes and exciting adventures. Now, fans can hold the details of this sprawling metropolis in the palm of their hand with DC Comics: Field Guide to Gotham City. Featuring intriguing secrets and fascinating details, this colorful illustrated mini book exposes the underbelly of Gotham City and all the characters that dwell within. Part of Insight Editions' new collectible series of mini books, this is the perfect gift for any DC Comics fan.

Author : Brecht Evens
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 1770465855
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Belgium written by Brecht Evens and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisitely drawn exploration of three lost souls’ emotional terrain As night falls in the City of Belgium, three strangers in their late twenties—a most dangerous age—arrive at a popular restaurant. Jona is about to move away; he calls his wife, who’s already settled in Berlin, before trying to make plans with friends for one last night on the town. No one bites—they’re all busy or maybe they just don’t want to party—but he’s determined to make this night something to remember. Victoria is lively and energetic, but surrounded by friends and family who are buzzkills, always worrying about what is best for her. Rodolphe glumly considers his own misery and then suddenly snaps out of it, becoming the life of the party. The three careen through the city’s nightlife spots and underbelly, getting ever deeper in the messiness of human existence as they chase pleasure—or at least a few distractions from their daily lives. Each has a series of misadventures that reveal them to be teetering on the edge of despair, of destruction, of becoming the people they’ll be for the rest of their lives. The City of Belgium occupies a place between lucid dream and tooth-grinding nightmare.

Author : Steenz
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524877980
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart Takes the Stage written by Steenz and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Warm, funny, and a visual delight, Steenz's take on Heart of the City is next-level." –Dana Simpson, Phoebe and Her Unicorn This first book collection of Heart of the City comics by the strip’s new creator, Steenz, is packed with outstanding art, a diverse cast of characters, and engaging, positive storylines about friendship, pop culture, ghost stories, and a wide range of real-world issues. Heart Lamarr is a girl with big dreams who lives in Philadelphia with her single mom. She has her sights set on a life of theater, but she runs into plenty of drama off-stage, too. Luckily, her best friends Dean, Kat, and Charlotte form a stellar supporting cast to help Heart navigate the challenging world of school plays, cliques, rumors, and everything else middle school throws at them.

Author : Peter Sanderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416531416
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City written by Peter Sanderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City has had a profound influence on the Marvel Comics universe. Unlike Batman's Gotham City or Superman's Metropolis, the Marvel superheroes - Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers - are grounded firmly in the streets of New York, working and living beside us. This fun and informative guide will take you through those streets, pointing out locations of interest along the way. Peter Parker's apartment in the West Village? We'll show you how to get there. Looking for the Avengers headquarters? They might give you funny looks when you show up at the Frick Museum, but don't worry, you're in the right place. You'll also discover why Stan Lee decided to use New York as his backdrop in the first place, and what effect that decision has had on subsequent generations of comic book artists and writers. Whether you're a curious traveller or just a Marvel Comics fan, The Marvel Comics Guide to New York Citygives a fresh and fun new look at the greatest city in the world - and the Marvel universe.

Author : Newton Lilavois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736906729
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crescent City Monsters written by Newton Lilavois and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonas is a young blues musician deep-seated in that New Orleans supernatural world. Some unknown being from that supernatural world puts a bounty on his head. The bounty that not only changes Jonas' life, but also the course of the entire supernatural world. Jonas is pulled back from the dead, and desperately needs to find out who put the bounty on him.

Author : FRASER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781438487489
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barcelona, City of Comics written by FRASER and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barcelona, City of Comics introduces readers of English to a range of Spanish- and Catalan-language comics published after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. During this time of palpable social change, the Catalonian capital regained its reputation as the hub of comics publishing in Spain. Comics collectives such as El Rrollo and Butifarra, as well as individual artists from Montse Clavé to Mariscal, contributed to a thriving comics subculture that drew from and pushed beyond the countercultural comics tradition in the United States. As the Salón Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona (1981-) drew greater attention to the city, comics magazines teemed with graphic depictions of urban scenes. On the comics page, themes of architecture and city life were employed as social critique, while the city of Barcelona itself increasingly solidified its reputation on the global stage through urban planning. With a foreword by Pere Joan, Barcelona, City of Comics delves into the relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.