{"id":6106,"date":"2009-09-19T20:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T19:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2010-01-10T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T15:12:25","slug":"echoes-of-the-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/09\/19\/echoes-of-the-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of the Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mysterieux retour du Capitaine Nemo.<\/em><\/p>\n

This week has been incredibly hectic work-wise but I’ve managed to keep these posts going, so here’s the last one devoted to an appreciation of the Cit\u00e9s Obscures of Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten and Beno\u00eet Peeters. A week of posts barely scratches the surface of their vast and involved creation of alternate worlds, fantasy design and architecture, and Borges-like metaphysical speculation. When I try to explain my disaffection with the popular end of American comics, it’s works such as these which I offer as an alternative. The problem, of course, is that only a handful of the books have been translated into English, a detail which tells you all you need to know about English-speaking comics publishers and\u2014since demand fuels the market\u2014their readers.<\/p>\n

This final set of pictures is a selection from Schuiten and Peeters’ L’Echo des Cit\u00e9s<\/em> (1993), a facsimile edition of the main newspaper which serves the cities of the Obscure World. Unfortunately, this remains untranslated but the bulk of the book is full-page illustrations, many of which are among Schuiten’s best. A number of these were later reprinted as limited lithograph prints.<\/p>\n

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Les r\u00eaves engloutis d’Oscar Frobelius.<\/em><\/p>\n


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Les oublies de Blossfeldtstad.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Les naufrages du Battista.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sauv\u00e9s!<\/em><\/p>\n

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La resurrection du Lac Vert.<\/em><\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The fantastic art archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Further tales from the Obscure World<\/a>
\n\u2022 Br\u00fcsel by Schuiten & Peeters<\/a>
\n\u2022 La route d\u2019Armilia by Schuiten & Peeters<\/a>
\n\u2022 La Tour by Schuiten & Peeters<\/a>
\n\u2022 La fi\u00e8vre d\u2019Urbicande by Schuiten & Peeters<\/a>
\n\u2022 Les Murailles de Samaris by Schuiten & Peeters<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten<\/a>
\n\u2022 Taxandria, or Raoul Servais meets Paul Delvaux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mysterieux retour du Capitaine Nemo. This week has been incredibly hectic work-wise but I’ve managed to keep these posts going, so here’s the last one devoted to an appreciation of the Cit\u00e9s Obscures of Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten and Beno\u00eet Peeters. A week of posts barely scratches the surface of their vast and involved creation of alternate … Continue reading “Echoes of the Cities”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42,27,51,9,21,48,20],"tags":[712,710,715,349,1663],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-borges","category-cities","category-comics","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-science-fiction","tag-benoit-peeters","tag-francois-schuiten","tag-jules-verne","tag-paul-delvaux","tag-raoul-servais"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}