Finally, there’s a comic book store for the blind

This was published on Vice. It was a good journalism piece, I feel, even though I am no longer a journalist. Still, this was great because I got paid well above what I was expecting. It was my first publication where I negotiated my salary so it will always hold a special place in my career. Now that Vice is no more, enjoy this snapshot in time. Finally, there’s a comic book store for the blind. by Robert Kingett. August 9, 2016, 6:33am Comics Empower sells and makes in-house audio adaptations of comic books for the blind and visually impaired. I’ve been blind since birth. Growing up, I devoured novels translated into braille and adapted into audio books, but there was never an equivalent for comic books. While my sighted friends were enjoying Batman and Spider-Man comics, I became complacent with hearing about them secondhand but never experiencing the stories for myself. Later, I would discover companies like Audio Comics and Graphic Audio, which have produced audio versions of…