Losing Faith in Comics Translation
Résumé
In comics translation, proving that a translator has been “unfaithful” to the author or the source text they were given to translate is practically impossible. The fundamental problem with notions of faithfulness in translation is that they imply the existence of a measurable scale of loyalty. Yet there is no such thing as a 100% faithful translation. Any attempt to reproduce a text in a new language will inevitably change it.