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Benjamin Fraser has gifted us a path-breaking interdisciplinary study of the way that comics enable us to think through the varied experiences of the urban environment. A truly global study, Fraser transports us from the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona to the streets of Sao Paolo, from the skylines of New York to the types of fictional cityscapes that only comics can produce. This wide-ranging and deep-diving volume promises to open comics studies to entirely new ways of thinking.--Bart Beaty, professor of English at University of Calgary Benjamin Fraser has written a seminal book. Until now we did not have a study covering the field of comics and the city. Fraser's book is now offering a comprehensive overview to the relations between the city and the medium of comics, and it also provides deep readings and analyses of selected works. Whatever research will follow approaching the subject of comics and the city, it will all stem from Fraser's book.--Joern Ahrens, professor of cultural sociology at Giessen University, Germany, and professor of cultural anthropology at North West University, South Africa This is a wonderful book to explore how cities are represented in comics. A superb prompt to deeply reflect on the graphic textures of urbanism, urban life, and the material and iconic representation of global cities. A truly delightful work that inspires one to keep loving comics and think about them with spatial passion and the graphic fascination of the urban heart.--Ana Merino, professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Iowa

Benjamin Fraser has gifted us a path-breaking interdisciplinary study of the way that comics enable us to think through the varied experiences of the urban environment. A truly global study, Fraser transports us from the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona to the streets of S�o Paolo, from the skylines of New York to the types of fictional cityscapes that only comics can produce. This wide-ranging and deep-diving volume promises to open comics studies to entirely new ways of thinking.--Bart Beaty, professor of English at University of Calgary Benjamin Fraser has written a seminal book. Until now we did not have a study covering the field of comics and the city. Fraser's book is now offering a comprehensive overview to the relations between the city and the medium of comics, and it also provides deep readings and analyses of selected works. Whatever research will follow approaching the subject of comics and the city, it will all stem from Fraser's book.--J�rn Ahrens, professor of cultural sociology at Giessen University, Germany, and professor of cultural anthropology at North West University, South Africa This is a wonderful book to explore how cities are represented in comics. A superb prompt to deeply reflect on the graphic textures of urbanism, urban life, and the material and iconic representation of global cities. A truly delightful work that inspires one to keep loving comics and think about them with spatial passion and the graphic fascination of the urban heart.--Ana Merino, professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Iowa

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Benjamin Fraser is professor of Spanish and head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He is author of several books including The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape, and Comics Form; Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the Urban Geo-Humanities; and Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities.

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