Contributions / Interviews in non-scientific media

Publication year: 2010

URL: http://henryjenkins.org/2010/08/comics_and_the_city.html

Abstract: 

In 2007, I attended a really exciting conference in Berlin which brought together comics scholars from the United States and Europe to talk about the intersections between comics and the city. Here's a blog post that I wrote about the conference at the time. More recently, the conference organizers Jorn Ahrens and Arno Meteling have published a book, Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence which builds upon the conference, including many of the key papers presented as well as some edited for the collection. My own work on Retrofuturism in the comics of Dean Motter was included in the book in a slightly different form that the version I shared with readers of this blog. The book is organized around five key themes: History, comics and the city; Retrofuturistic and nostalgic cities; Superhero cities; Locations of crime; and the City-Comic as a Mode of reflection. I have really been enjoying reading some of the other contributions to the book. Among the comics and artists represented in the collection are The Yellow Kid, Jason Lute's Berlin, the works of Eurocomics masters such as Francois Schuiten and Jacques Tardi, Batman's Gotham City, Ex Machina, Promethea, Spider-man's New York, Will Eisner, From Hell, 100 Bullets, Carl Barks, and Enki Bilal.

Harvard Citation style: Jenkins, H. and Ahrens, J. (2010) Comics and the City : An Interview with Jörn Ahrens : Confessions of an Aca Fan, The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, 19. August 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/08/comics_and_the_city.html

APA Citation style: Jenkins, H., & Ahrens, J. (2010). Comics and the City : An Interview with Jörn Ahrens : Confessions of an Aca Fan, The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, 19. August 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/08/comics_and_the_city.html