TY  - GEN
AU  - Ahrens, Jorn Ed.
AU  - Meteling, Arno Ed.
TI  - Comics and the city : urban space in print, picture and sequence
SN  - 9780826440198
U1  - 741.5 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Notes on the Contributors vii
Jorn Ahrens and Arno Meteling : Introduction 1
| Jens Balzer: "Hully Gee, I'm a Hieroglyphe" —
Mobilizing the Gaze and the Invention of Comics
in New York City, 1895   19
| Ole Frahm: Every Window Tells a Story: Remarks on
the Urbanity of Early Comic Strips 32
| Anthony Enns: The City as Archive in Jason Lutes's Berlin 45
II Retrofuturistic and Nostalgic Cities
| Henry Jenkins: 'The Tomorrow That Never Was"
— Retrofuturism in the Comics of Dean Motter 63
| Stefanie Diekmann: Remembrance of Things to Come:
Francois Schuiten and Benoit Peeters's Cities of the Fantastic 84
| 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
Notes on the Contributors
Jorn Ahrens and Arno Meteling: Introduction
I History, Comics, and the City
| Jens Balzer: "Hully Gee, I'm a Hieroglyphe" —
Mobilizing the Gaze and the Invention of Comics in New York City, 1895
| Ole Frahm: Every Window Tells a Story: Remarks on
the Urbanity of Early Comic Strips
| Anthony Enns: The City as Archive in Jason Lutes's Berlin
II Retrofuturistic and Nostalgic Cities
| Henry Jenkins: 'The Tomorrow That Never Was"
— Retrofuturism in the Comics of Dean Motter
I Stefanie Diekmann: Remembrance of Things to Come:
Francois Schuiten and Benoit Peeters's Cities of the Fantastic
| Michael Cuntz: Paris au pluriel: Depictions of the
French Capital in Jacques Tardi's Comic Book Writing
III Superhero Cities
| William Uricchio: The Batman's Gotham City™:
Story, Ideology, Performance
| Arno Meteling: A Tale of Two Cities: Politics and
Superheroics in Starrnan and Ex Machina 133
| Anthony Lioi: The Radiant City: New York as Ecotopia in
Prometfiea, Book V 150
I Jason Bainbridge: "I Am New York" — Spider-Man,
New York City and the Marvel Universe 163
IV Locations of Crime
I Greg M. Smith: Will Eisner, Vaudevillian of the Cityscape 183
| Bjorn Quiring: "A Fiction That We Must Inhabit" — Sense
Production in Urban Spaces according to Alan Moore
and Eddie Campbell's From Hell 199
| Jorn Ahrens: The Ordinary Urban: 100 Bullets and
the Cliches of Mass Culture 214
V The City-Comic as a Mode of Reflection
| Andre Suhr: Seeing the City through a Frame: Marc-Antoine
Mathieu's Acquefacques Comics 231
1 5 I 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 City 265

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