Die Stadt, die es nicht gab

A singular, haunting work from Carlsen Comics, Die Stadt, die es nicht gab (The City That Never Was) is a 1987 one-shot comic by writer Pierre Christin (with Resel Rebiersch) and artist Enki Bilal. This German-published volume presents a dystopian vision of an imagined metropolis, blending political allegory with Bilal’s signature painterly, melancholic art. It stands as a potent, self-contained European graphic novel that captures the era’s anxieties about urban alienation and state control.