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🏛 Routledge 📅 2019 📖 274 pages 🌐 English 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9781138483583

📝 Description: Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives

This book provides readings of contemporary comics that depict, or that are produced by, artists and collectives resident in cities marked by histories of division and which continue to be shaped by ongoing forms of physical and cultural segregation.

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