Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, Conglomerations

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