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

Published in 2020 by Routledge, this academic volume serves as a critical exploration of the intersection between urban infrastructure and graphic narrative form. Dominic Davies examines how contemporary comics and graphic novels depict the logistical, social, and political networks that define the modern global city. The work is situated within the broader academic field of comics studies, focusing on how visual storytelling captures the lived experience of space in increasingly complex urban environments.

The volume analyzes a range of international graphic narratives, arguing that these works do more than represent cities; they actively map the invisible systems of power, transit, and communication that sustain them. Davies adopts an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on postcolonial theory and urban studies to illustrate how the medium of comics is uniquely equipped to visualize the tensions between global capital and local realities in cities across the world.