This paper presents how high school students have adapted excerpts of novels into comic strips and shows how using an alternative medium can have an effect on reading literature. Thanks to this pedagogical project, students were able to read the text in a sensitive and imaginative way, but as soon as they found an idea for its adaptation, they did not feel the need to come back to the original text. Thus, by having associate images, students are more efficient than the adapted work itself to start an interpretative reading. On the other hand, the adaptation process, by redefining the border between the reader and the author, allowed the students to develop reflexivity about narrative strategies through the production of their comic strips.