Hillary L. Chute > Quotes

“The medium of comics is not necessarily about "good drawing"--"It's just an accident when it makes a nice drawing," Spiegelman explained to a curator at the MoMA--but rather about what Spiegelman calls picture-writing and Satrapi calls narrative drawing: how one person constructs a narrative that moves forward in time through both words and images.”
― Hillary L. Chute, Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics

“The medium of comics is not necessarily about "good drawing"--"It's just an accident when it makes a nice drawing," Spiegelman explained to a curator at the MoMA--but rather about what Spiegelman calls picture-writing and Satrapies calls narrative drawing: how one person constructs a narrative that moves forward in time through both words and images.”
― Hillary chute

“The gutter is an absent space that is part of the story—it is where the reader fills in the blank between pictured moments, participating imaginatively in the creation of the story. And different readers do this and experience this blank differently. Comics is as much about what is outside the frame as what is inside it—what can be pictured, and what cannot be or won’t be pictured, and is left to the reader’s imagination.”
― Hillary L. Chute, Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere

“Comics, in fact, is a medium that involves a substantial degree of reader participation to stitch together narrative meaning.”
― Hillary L. Chute, Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere

“So for Spiegelman, the use of animals, paradoxically, limits sentimentality and makes it possible for authenticity and realism to predominate.”
― Hillary Chute, Maus Now: Selected Writing