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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 In this compelling study of world making and storytelling in The Obscure Cities by Francois Schuiten and Benoit 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 With clarity, insight, and depth, Jan Baetens' Rebuilding Story Worlds gives the reader all the essential keys to navigate Francois Schuiten and Benoit Peeters' sprawling graphic novel series The Obscure Cities--Belgium's most sophisticated, contemporary bande dessinee opus. --Jean-Paul Gabilliet author of Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of Comic Books in America

With clarity, insight, and depth, Jan Baetens' Rebuilding Story Worlds gives the reader all the essential keys to navigate Francois Schuiten and Benoit Peeters' sprawling graphic novel series The Obscure Cities--Belgium's most sophisticated, contemporary bande dessinee opus. --Jean-Paul Gabilliet author of Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of Comic Books in America In this compelling study of world making and storytelling in The Obscure Cities by Francois Schuiten and Benoit 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

""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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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.

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