ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author treats the frame of the gutter, the frame of the logic of the panels and the frame of words and images in combination. With regard to the frames of words and images, the author considers the particular combination of words and images in the process of transmitting or instigating the experience of violence in a way that actively includes the reader’s/viewer’s body and mind in this process of representation. To facilitate the overlapping of discourse and lived experience in the construction of knowledge, a space for the ineffable may be opened up within discourse. Sacco’s position is different from that of Khamis, in that he is not himself a survivor of the massacre. Nonetheless, Sacco finds himself in a similar position to Khamis, in that he must give an account of deaths that he did not experience himself. Sacco can only bear ‘witness’ through the accounts of those who survived the massacre.
