City Of Silence is a three-issue comic booklimited series written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Gary Erskine. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... This article is about the comic book author. ... Gary Erskine is a British comic book artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. ...
It was originally to be called Silencers, to be published by Epic Comics in the mid 1990s, but Epic folded and it was not published. In 2000 it finally saw print as City Of Silence and was published by Image Comics. A cover for the mini-series Havok & Wolverine by Kent Williams Epic Comics was a creator-owned imprint of Marvel Comics started in 1982, lasting through the mid-1990s, and being briefly revived on a small scale in the mid-2000s. ... Image Comics is the third or fourth largest comic book publisher in the United States. ...
City of Silence is heavy on the techno-cyberpunk genre in the tradition of William Gibson.
His picture of a dark, techno-saturated society, the City of Silence, is meant to be a representation of the grim possibilities that today's cities can become clouded with too much imagery and not enough true fact.
City of Silence represents a new kind of police state where images are controlled.
Pesonen finds studying the soundscapes of cities interesting, because there is a great variety of sounds in a city and there are a lot of listeners who all have their own way of relating to sounds.
Helsinki residents do not necessarily even notice that they are talking in a loud voice; they have the ability to close their ears to the urban soundscape.
For example, in the northern Finnish city of Oulu, whose centre is pedestrianised, buskers really come into their own.
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