Black Bleeds and the Sites of a Trauma in GB Tran’s Vietnamerica

‘The gutter’ is the space between panels where panel transitions happen—readers fill in the blank space by connecting panels to make sense of the story. In GB Tran’s Vietnamerica (2010), however, black gutters become part of black ‘bleeds’ (pages congruent with single panels in them) to portray the...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
Main Author: Jin Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-09-01
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Online Access:https://www.comicsgrid.com/article/id/3554/