"Figure 4, Peyote": Comics and Graphic Narrative in Anarchist Cookbooks, 1971-Present. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sarat-St. Peter, Hilary A.; St. Peter, Austin L.
• Is Part Of: Technical communication quarterly. Volume 29:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 255
• Page End: 270
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Research methods -- textual analysis -- visual rhetoric/visualization techniques -- tactical technical communication comics -- graphic narrative -- qualitative research -- anarchist cookbooks; Technical writing -- Periodicals; Technical writing -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 808.0666
• DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2020.1768293
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1057-2252

Abstract

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.