Drawing from my experience as a cartoonist and educator, and grounded in my research into works like Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina, this talk examines how visual silence invites reflection, tension, and ambiguity, allowing students to approach storytelling not as a march toward plot, but as an experience. Ultimately, silence in comics is a form of invitation, a moment where the artist steps back and allows the reader to enter. In teaching students to embrace this space, we prepare them not only to make stronger visual stories but to become more empathetic, attentive readers and makers.