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This essay deals with The Obscure Cities, a well-known series elaborated by Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten between 1982 and 2019, a period that witnessed the emergence and further institutionalization of digital media. It aims at examining the way in which the author have addressed both the possibilities and challenges of digitization, while also focusing on the indirect effects of the digital revolution on a series that demontrates a strong attachment to the materiality of the book.