Comics Is a Space for Sharing Experiences
摘要
Eszter Szép presents her statement in comic form, emphasizing comics as a space for sharing experiences through embodied, interactive, and dialogic engagement. Her comic invites readers to physically manipulate the page and reflect on overlapping spaces—personal, architectural, cosmic—while exploring the performative nature of reading. Barbara Postema responds with a formalist analysis, drawing on theories of embodiment, multisensory engagement, and reader participation. She references Szép’s own scholarship in Comics and the Body and engages with concepts like Thierry Groensteen’s braiding, Charles Hatfield’s tensions, and Scott Bukatman’s multimodality. Postema highlights how Szép’s comic enacts the dialogic and vulnerable relationship between the creator, the reader, and the material object. Szép’s reply, also in comic form, is succinct but appreciative.