Abstract
<p>Comics, a relatively understudied medium for representations of disability, have enormous potential for providing important critical perspectives in disability studies. This article examines two recent comics that portray individuals with autism: <em>The Ride Together</em> by Paul and Judy Karasik and <em>Circling Normal, </em>a compilation of the comic strip <em>Clear Blue Water </em>by Karen Montague-Reyes. I argue that these comics’ unique narrative geometries make them ideally suited for depicting cognitive disabilities in the nuanced context of embodied life. Through their reworking of stereotypes and their unique portrayals of autism, <em>Circling Normal </em>and <em>The Ride Together </em>demonstrate the power of comics to rewrite (and redraw) traditional scripts of cognitive disability and break the confining cultural framework through which some people are seen and others overlooked.</p> <h4>Keywords</h4> <p>autism, comics, representation, cognitive disability, empathy</p>
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The Ohio State University Libraries
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