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Gutter futures

2021; Routledge; Volume: 18; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/14791420.2021.1954215

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Sasha J. Sanders,

Digital Games and Media

Gutters in comics open liminal spaces of possibility and transformation.11 Sasha Sanders, "(Be)coming Out in Comics: Navigating Liminality and Queer Identity Formation," Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies 9, no. 1 (2020): 39. Gutters are the small gaps that separate the panels. In this comic, the gutters are illustrated as piping to emphasize the gaps. Gutters ask readers to engage all their senses to create meaning and continuity between the sequence of panels.22 Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The invisible Art (Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1993), 89. Gutters incite imagination and welcome future-oriented world-making. The comic form is my blueprint for building more just worlds. In this comic, I seep into the gutters to illustrate movements towards a "Gutter Future," a future where we embrace fluidity, the messy ebbs and flows of un/learning and be/coming.