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The study argues that the comic medium—via the immediacy of signs and vivid color—can generate radical images beyond traditional architectural representation. By analyzing exemplary comics, the research highlights how visionary worlds frame specific architectures and the contemporary city through criticism and future-oriented reflection.","9 / 2021  \nDrawing Creator of Worlds.  \nCriticism and Representation of the City in Comics  \nSara Conte, Valentina Marchetti  \nAbstract  \nIn the Walking city illustrations, large insect-cities walk the earth, while the materialization of what will be the interconnection concept is the protagonist of the project for the Plug-in-city. This was a vision where megastructures populate the world, while single housing units, transfigured into space capsules, hook and unhook there. In these utopian visions, Archigram blend graphic codes of Marvel covers, Pop Art references and the language of science fiction comics.The graphical medium, thanks to the immediacy ofthe sign and the vividness of the colors, is the ideal tool to give back a radical image, which is able to bring out bolder concepts than the traditional ones. The fusion between architecture and comics thus becomes instrumental in the creation of a futuristic vision, which starts from the analysis of a nearby reality. The world of comics also deals by nature with the drawing of an environment aimed at portraying real or ideal cities or real caprices, where architectures distant in time and space are mixed, sometimes with fantasy elements or projects never realized, to form new plausible imagery. Today more than ever, the comic strip is not limited to passively reflect the society, but it offers a criticism and it opens reflections also on architectural and urban issues. Through the analysis of the drawings of some exemplary comics, the research proposes to highlight the creation of visionary worlds capable of focusing on specific architectures and on the contemporary city.  \nKeywords: comics, visionary architecture, criticism, drawing, representation  \nIntroduction  \nThe comic strip, due to its nature of drawn image belonging to the worlds of representation and communication, represents one of the media that, in its attempt to make consistent the worlds of fantasy, utopia and imagination, has best highlighted the fantastic and sometimes innovative aspects of architecture, contributing to the formation of a collective idea of the future city (fig. 1) . It is no coincidence that Archigram merges the graphic codes of Marvel covers with the style of Pop Art and the language of science fiction comics to represent the Walking city or Plug-in-city. In fact, architectural design does not exhaust its potential in the representation of elements aimed at construction, but is above all the concretization of a vision, the prefiguration of a space’s transformation and the  \n[https://doi.org/10.26375/disegno.9.2021.20](https://doi.org/10.26375/disegno.9.2021.20)  \nprojection of an idea. At the same time, drawing is a criticism tool able to support a practical and theoretical reflection on the surrounding reality, as well as on the idea of real or ideal city, both present and future. The bond between comics and architecture goes beyond affinity and is a mutual and continuous influence that converges towards the representation of a vision of the city. The attitude of comics towards the exploration of architectural space is born with the medium itself. The construction of the set and the choice of its representation proceed in parallel with the creation of the story where architecture is used to develop new methods of constructing narrative time and to make criticisms of society or architecture itself. The symbolic power of architecture,  \n205  ISSN 2533-2899   \n9 / 2021  \nportrayed or involved in storytelling, allows readers to identify urban background scenarios or to involve them in fantastic worlds, arousing wonder or fear in them [Conte, Marchetti 2020] . In fact, as Enki Bilal points out,“Cinema by definition shows everything that happens, while literature requires the reader to imagine everything. 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