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Editors’ Introduction: Drawing Out the A in English Language Arts
... Gutters highlight the juxtapositions and image-text tensions that ultimately make the medium's hybrid readings possible, and they provide liminal spaces for narratives (and readers) to transition from one moment, subject, body, or scene to another. David has written previously about transnational children and youth who used comics gutters to safeguard aspects of their narratives from outside readers (Ghiso & Low, 2013;Low, Monea, Stornaiuolo, Campano, & Thomas, 2020;Low & Pandya, 2019), not entirely unlike Reese's discussion of literary curtains (2018). VOLUME 5(2) 2022 ...
Through an analysis of published graphic novels and comics created by schoolchildren, and building upon Rudine Sims Bishop's literary metaphors, we discuss how comics serve as compasses and kaleidoscopes that allow readers/composers/educators to center justice in the storying process. We argue that the comics medium provides readers and authors specific affordances (interiority, multiperspectivity, liminality, fragmentation, ambiguity, juxtaposition, and focalization) for bending reality and framing stories of the unseen, unheard, and hidden in the margins. We address teachers directly in exploring what's possible when texts are read kaleidoscopically to engage the multiperspectival/multiversal/liminal nature of a robustly multimodal medium.
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