REBUILDING STORY WORLDS OBSCURE CITIES BY SCHUITEN SC
(W) JAN BAETENS
A collaboration between Belgian artist François Schuiten and French writer Beno t Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Rebuilding Story Worlds offers the first full-length study of this seminal series, exploring both the artistic traditions from which it emerges and the innovative ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space. Comics scholar JAN BAETENS examines how Schuiten's work as an architectural designer informs the series' concerns with the preservation of historic buildings.