ABSTRACT
The chapter studies HR literature’s key theme: witnessing. It proposes that the testimonial encounter in HR graphic texts involves the creation of a ‘witness space’. It demonstrates how this witnessing space works at two levels: of the panel, where the panel is a window through which we as reader-spectators see and hear the witnesses, and of the panel as a diegetic space that functions as a space of proximate encounters between witnesses and between witnesses and mediators. It argues that the panel-as-witness-space invokes a sense of response-ability from the witnesses and the reporter. The chapter discusses the forms of witnesses one encounters in these texts.
