by Dr. Velebita Koričančić, Mexico City   Alberto Breccia’s Report on the Blind adapts the most unsettling section of Ernesto Sábato’s novel On Heroes and Tombs (Buenos Aires, 1961). The episode centered on Fernando Vidal Olmos, a man convinced that blind people form a secret order controlling the world. Breccia’s graphic adaptation turns this obsession into a way of seeing. The comic creates a closed circuit of paranoia: Fernando sees danger everywhere, and the reader is drawn into the same paranoid field. First published by Ediciones B in the 1990s, Breccia’s comic later went out of print. It was reissued… Read More