ABSTRACT
The conclusion proposes pareidoliac reading as a method of reading solicited by the HR graphic novels’ employment of unnamed, unidentified faces. It argues that in the panel-as-place we encounter the unidentified stranger, the Other, towards whom, by virtue of being within this ‘place’ (panel), we have to respond. The HR graphic texts’ placing of strangers within our visually and haptically proximate space demands an acknowledgement of the completely alien Other’s common ground with all humans. This pareidolia of the HR graphic novel brings to us the face of Human Rights.
