The Invisible Frontier: Cities of the Fantastic

Rating:
Summary: Fantastic Indeed
Review: This book is pretty much a must for lovers of Euro-comics. The series (LES CITES OBSCURES, here translated as "Cities of the Fantastic"), while regretably not entirely available in English, stands as a classic of sophisticated Euro-comics. But each also stands on its own, so you needn't worry about about ever being lost.

This volume's story focuses on a young, capable but not brilliant character amidst a time and place of historical and cultural turmoil. Be prepared to ask yourself how cartography influences culture and cultures' manifest destiny. If that's not a question you can imagine contemplating, this isn't for you; if it is, this is a delight.

Of course, you can always whip over to amazon.fr and get it in the French original...

-- Julian Darius, Sequart.com (for sophisticated study of comic books and graphic novels)