As a Master’s student in the Department of English, I work primarily with visual-verbal graphic novels of displacement. My research, situated in the nexus of formalist comics studies, diasporic students, migration studies, and border studies, investigates how cultural identities are shaped and expressed through the multi-diegetic comic form. I examine how, when coupled with its narrative content, the form becomes crucial to examine a narrative’s potential to produce non-hegemonic gender and/or racial subjectivities, using the aesthetic of otherness to communicate narratives of (dis)empowerment.