McCloud- Comics and the Senses

Wiki: Comics is most obviously a visual medium. In what ways do other senses participate in reading comics?

Scott McCloud explains brilliantly the way we hear comics. Just as our ideas of the actions in a comic can transfer from panel to panel, we also develop ideas about the way a scene sounds. Sometimes we are guided by the author through use of onomatopoeia (thwap!). The texture of lines also helps to convey sound. Other times, the reader mentally creates sounds.