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168 Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 6 2o20 (Travel) Sigrid Thomsen | Navigating Movement and Uncertainty stays “muted” in the comic and that the Palestinians Sarah encounters are “indistinct” (Fischer 2015: 304). While this is a fair critique, it is one with which Glidden herself might agree and which the gutter can be seen to point toward, as it indexes Sarah’s own blind spots and the gaps in her knowledge. They are, then, not just spaces which the reader has to move across, but ones Sarah herself moves across. The watercolors, meanwhile, though still firmly encased in panel lining, underscore Sarah’s geographical and bodily movements while visually translating her growing uncertainty, as they create images which seem fluid rather than fixed. It is this flexible form of the comic which allows Glidden to navigate her relationship to Israel in a way both processual and site-specific. Acknowledgments I would like to thank Matt Johnson for his helpful suggestions, insights, and edits. Bibliography 40 Friends 10 Days: A Free Israel Adventure. Taglit: Birthright Israel. <https://www.birth- rightisrael.com> [accessed 25.05.2020] 2011. ‘MetaMaus’: The Story Behind Spiegelman’s Classic. NPR Author Interviews. <https:// www.npr.org/2011/10/05/141085597/spiegelmans-metamaus-the-secrets-behind-maus> [accessed 04.08.2020] Abramson, Yehonatan. 2019. ‘Securing the Diasporic ‘Self’ by Travelling Abroad: Taglit-Birth- right and Ontological Security’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(4), 656–673 Abramson, Yehonatan. 2017. ‘Making a Homeland, Constructing a Diaspora: The Case of Taglit-Birthright Israel’, Political Geography, 58, 14–23 Alú, Giorgia & Sarah Patricia Hill. 2018. ‘The Traveling Eye: Reading the Visual in Travel Narratives’, Studies in Travel Writing, 22(1), 1–15 Baroni, Raphaël. 2016. ‘(Un)natural Temporalities in Comics’, European Comic Art, 9(1), 5–23 Ben Hagai, Ella. 2018. ‘“We Didn’t Talk About the Conflict”: The Birthright’s Trip Influence on Jewish American’s Understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 24(2), 139–149 Casarosa, Enrico. 2008. The Venice Chronicles (Richmond: AdHouse Books) Chute, Hillary. 2008. ‘Comics as Literature? Reading Graphic Narrative’, PMLA, 123(2), 452–465 Chute, Hillary. 2011a. ‘Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics’, CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 48(10), 176–178 [book review] Chute, Hillary. 2011b. ‘Comics Form and Narrating Lives’, Profession, 11, 107–117 Delisle, Guy. 2011. Jerusalem (Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly) Fischer, Nina. 2015. ‘Facing the Arab ‘Other’?: Jerusalem in Jewish Women’s Comics’, Studies in Comics, 6(2), 291–311 Fischer, Nina. 2013. ‘Graphic Novels Explore an (Un-)Holy Land’, Quest: Issues in Contempo- rary Jewish History, 6, 201–236 Frahm, Ole. 2010. Die Sprache des Comics (Hamburg: Philo Fine Arts)