Benjamin Fraser 
Barcelona, City of Comics [EPUB ebook] 
Urbanism, Architecture, and Design in Postdictatorial Spain

Barcelona, City of Comics introduces readers of English to a range of Spanish- and Catalan-language comics published after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. During this time of palpable social change, the Catalonian capital regained its reputation as the hub of comics publishing in Spain. Comics collectives such as El Rrollo and Butifarra, as well as individual artists from Montse Clavé to Mariscal, contributed to a thriving comics subculture that drew from and pushed beyond the countercultural comics tradition in the United States. As the Salón Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona (1981–) drew greater attention to the city, comics magazines teemed with graphic depictions of urban scenes. On the comics page, themes of architecture and city life were employed as social critique, while the city of Barcelona itself increasingly solidified its reputation on the global stage through urban planning. With a foreword by Pere Joan,
Barcelona, City of Comics delves into the relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe’s most notable global cities.

Содержание

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Foreword: My Barcelona,
el seny i la rauxa in the Comic


Pere Joan



Introduction:
La ciutat dels tebeos




Part I: The Right to the City



1. The Housing Question: Anti-urbanistic Salvos from
Butifarra!



2. A Space of Her Own: Montse Clavé’s Feminist Urban Revolution



3.
A la calle: Martí, Pepichek, and the Underground Style of El Rrollo




Part II: On the Move



4. A Comix Jailbreak:
Fuga en la Modelo by Miguel Gallardo and Juan Mediavilla



5. Out of Place in the Eixample: Tilting at Windmills with Antonio Pamies



6. Mobile Societies: Space, Place, and Nonplace in Pere Joan’s
Passatger en transit




Part III: Design Aesthetics and Architecture



7. Spectacular Modernity: The Urban Visions of Victoria Bermejo and Juan Linares



8. Branding
Bar Cel Ona: Mariscal’s Design Aesthetics and the Business of Comics



9. Architecture, Antoni Gaudí, and the Global Urban Imagination



Conclusion



Notes

References

Index

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Benjamin Fraser is Professor of Iberian Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of many books, including
The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape, and Comics Form and
Visible Cities, Global Comics: Urban Images and Spatial Form.