Contents
List of Illustrations
1 A New
Series, A New Type of Author
2 A World of
Its Own
3 More than a
Possible World
4 Between
Chapter and Series
5 A New
Fantastic
6 In and Out
the Medium
7 Doing
Politics in Comics
8
Close-reading The Leaning Girl
9 A
Conversation with Benoît Peeters
10 Image Gallery
Acknowledgments
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index
JAN BAETENS is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium. His recent books on comics and visual studies include The Graphic Novel, coauthored with Hugo Frey, The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel, coedited with Frey and Steve Tabachnick, Novelization: From Film to Novel and The Film Photonovel: A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations.
"In this compelling study of world making and storytelling
in The Obscure Cities by François Schuiten and Benoît
Peeters, Jan Baetens offers a subtle and intelligent reading
of how structures of authorship, character, image, and world draw
readers into a truly fictional universe in which interpretation and
rereading are key. With this book, Baetens has certainly
brought The Obscure Cities into its rightful place
in the history of American and European comics."— Nancy Pedri,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
"Baetens ‘monograph is devoted to the overall concept of a series
that was not originally conceived as such. The heterogeneity of the
individual, complementary and contradicting volumes that stand for
themselves and can be read in the context of the other volumes."—
Comic.de
"With clarity, insight, and depth, Jan Baetens’ Rebuilding
Story Worlds gives the reader all the essential keys to
navigate François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters’ sprawling graphic
novel series The Obscure Cities—Belgium’s most sophisticated,
contemporary bande dessinée opus."— Jean-Paul Gabilliet,
author of Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of Comic Books in
America
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