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Køhlert, Frederik Byrn. "Comics, Form, and Anarchy." SubStance 46. (2017): 11–32. Added by: joachim (8/9/17, 1:47 PM) Last edited by: joachim (12/24/20, 4:52 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed BibTeX citation key: 2017e Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Anarchy Comics", Anarchism, Deleuze. Gilles, Guattari. Félix, Politics, Underground Comics Creators: Køhlert Collection: SubStance |
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| Attachments | URLs https://muse.jhu.edu/article/666773, https://www.academ ... s_Form_and_Anarchy |
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This article suggests a deep relationship between comics and anarchism. The examination of this fundamental relationship serves to illustrate how similar organizational and communicational principles are embedded within these two apparently disparate forms of human expression, and therefore also makes an argument for why an understanding of the history and form of comics is incomplete without a consideration of anarchism, and vice versa. In order to provide an example of how the two traditions have fruitfully cross-pollinated each other, I end by offering an examination of several anarchism-inflected underground comix from the American counterculture years and beyond, including a reading of perhaps the most explicit attempt to bear out this relationship in practice, namely the four-issue series Anarchy Comics (1978-1987). In my reading of Anarchy Comics, additionally, I expand my analysis beyond narrow structural concerns and discuss various other anarchism-inflected strategies of visual narrative available to comics makers, including such punk-inspired techniques as collage and the satirical redeployment of corporate comics and cartoon characters for subversive purposes. While my focus in what follows is thus largely on formal features, my argument ultimately aims to illuminate the relationship between comics and anarchism at the levels of both form and content.
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