The Obscure Cities

The Obscure Cities, published by IDW beginning in 2016, is a seven-issue comic series that adapts the celebrated European graphic novel saga of enigmatic, isolated city-states. Created by the Belgian duo François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, the series explores a labyrinthine, retro-futuristic world where each metropolis follows its own peculiar logic and history. This English-language edition brought the duo's meticulously detailed, architectural art and philosophical storytelling to a wider audience, making a landmark work of speculative fiction accessible to new readers.