Technical Communication Quarterly Jul 2020

“Figure 4, Peyote”: Comics and Graphic Narrative in Anarchist Cookbooks, 1971-Present

Hilary A. Sarat-St. Peter Dominican University ; Austin L. St. Peter Dominican University

Abstract

Journalists, politicians, and law enforcement professionals have linked anarchist cookbooks to various crimes including bank robberies, hijackings, terrorist attacks, and mass shootings. By braiding comics scholarship with tactical technical communication (TTC), this article asks how anarchist cookbooks deploy comics techniques, formal features, and affordances to convey subversive tactics to audiences. We identify visual-verbal tactics that recur throughout anarchist cookbooks, identify comics elements associated with these tactics, and suggest implications for research and practice.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2020-07-02
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10.1080/10572252.2020.1768293
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