It is not often that reading—let alone the reading of comics—is identified as a "need," a function of basic physical "survival": In Argentina, we were forced, as a question of survival, to use metaphor. … Readers often 'saw' hidden details in panels, which, let's be honest, the authors were not even conscious of—they had such a need for it. … A large number of graphic allusions … were evidently the work of [Alberto] Breccia. This is how scenario-writer Carlos Trillo looks (...) back on artist Alberto Breccia's tactic of opaquing the visual in their collaborative comic Buscavidas. The embedding of "graphic allusions" is figured as an incentive to the inventiveness of... (shrink)