Abstract

This chapter introduces comics as a distinctly spatial, infrastructural, and urban form, comprised of narrative building blocks and an architecture all their own. Through a series of examples taken from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and from both the global North and the global South, it shows how graphic narratives are able to intervene into the socio-spatial dialectic of urban life. Urban comics not only reveal the infrastructure of the city as a material embodiment of competing and often invisible interests. They also recalibrate and re-conceive urban space towards more socially and spatially just ends – often from the ground up.

Publication Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies on 10 August 2022, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003124931
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Departments:	School of Communication & Creativity > Media, Culture & Creative Industries > English, Publishing & Creative Writing

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