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The narrative traces imagination, memory, and decision-making as children build comic material “aliveness,” using bodily engagement with tools and materials to connect affect with storytelling. Comics enable images and text to carry what words alone cannot express.","Comics as enchantment  \nFor the sake of affect and imagination  \nVicky Grube  \nABSTRACT  \nAlotis happening atthe drawing table. Children are busy inventing stories, reassembling their thoughts, gleaning knowledge and making decisions. This article digs deep to see what is going on the children’s art-making through drawing and reading comics. In an after-school drawing club the author reveals how children are transformed through comic book drawing, realising their body’s potential to use images to tell a story. Drawing from imagination, memory and inventing brazen story lines, the body steps out of the present and moves into the future, into ‘What’s next? The ownership of theseriated drawn ideas leaps ahead, using all kinds of memory-what the child has seen, experiences, and can imagine as possibility. This all entails choosing which decisions make the most sense, delighting in affect. I call this entanglement with tools and memory to build a comic material aliveness. As children move through life, they have a faint sense that affects are there. The act of drawing – a physical engagement with materials stretches thinking and allows for deep immersion with affects which develop empathy and self-compassion.  \nKeywords: affect, Massumi, Heidegger, comics, Room 13  \nI have a long history of doodling. As a child I drew on the back of envelopes, on my mother’s grocery lists, in the margins of my school papers, wherever I found a blank surface. I looped spirals of blue ink on my white tennis shoes. I preferred to doodle with a ballpoint pen but was happy with a sharp dark pencil. Crayola markers had not yet been invented. However, my father had an indelible red marker on his workbench. I loved watching the red ink bleed into the wood scraps. My doodling appeared as little comic characters. I sketched a series describing the lives of these imaginary people. Using a three ringed notebook with lined paper, I drew families and maps of their neighborhoods. My ten-year-old self became fixated with these folks that were affected by the world around me. For example, my uncle subscribed to Popular Mechanics, a howto magazine for the amateur handyman. In this magazine I discovered architectural drawings of interiors: floor plans and symbols to indicate windows, doors, interior walls. Soon my imaginary families had designed homes.  \nHand in hand with this doodling was my passion for comic books. In the scorching summers, my brother and I rode our bikes to the pharmacy three blocks up the street to  \n76 forum | issue no. 63:3 doi: 10.3898/forum.2021.63.3.09  \nComics as enchantment  \nbuy the latest issues of Fantastic Four, Beetle Bailey, Little Lulu, Spiderman, Richie Rich and Scrooge McDuck. We loved riding bikes, moving under our own power, arriving at the little shop that offered ice-cold air, frosted sodas, and racks of comics. Our hair damp from the heat and plastered to our foreheads, bikes outside leaning against the dumpster, we flipped through the comics, buying as many as we could afford. Standing alongside my brother built deep body memories in me, and I often have quick flashbacks of these early comic collections. Most of all, this experience created a fond affection for my sibling.  \nBrian Massumi, in the book Politics of Affect (2015), described three types of memory.  \nFirst, unconscious memory, in which momentary past events or sensory recollections pop up in the present: ‘This reminds me of the way my grandmother made peanut butter sandwiches’.  \nNext, past memory, in which the remembrance is integrated into a current life and embedded for a long time into the now. For example, ‘I live with an embedded fear of being hurt at night stemming from my childhood bedtime. My brothers and I were sent to bed, and we could be silly and loud. 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