“Comics puts productive pressure on what ‘normal reading’ is — not because it is so easy, or immediate, but rather because paths of reading and different moments of time can compete as alternatives.” – Hillary Chute
Some key terms from Hillary Chute’s “Comics for Grown-Ups”:
- Decode (vs. read)
- Gutter
- “Secret language of comics”
- Spatially site-specific
- Weirdness of time
- All-at-onceness (or symphonic effect)
- Directions of reading
- Slowness
- Hybridity
- Graphic medicine