Why Comics? Quotes

“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