Dittmar, J. F. (2019). Blind readers and comics: reflecting on comics’ storytelling from a different perspective. Comics Forum. Retrieved from https://comicsforum.org/2019/08/04/blind-readers-and-comics/
ABSTRACT:
This paper discusses comics for the blind, based on the example of the tactile comic life by Philipp Meyer and Astérix par Touchtatis ! by Olivier Poncer. It looks into the potential and the restrictions of sequential pictorial storytelling that is accessible to blind readers. Special attention is given to the elements of comics narratives and the technical background of tactile text and image representation. Due to the process of giving information in tactile comics, these present an extreme challenge for readers who have been born blind, while readers who have become blind later in life seem to be able to refer the elements of spatially dispersed tactile information representing the visual appearance of environments (images) to their memory of visual information.