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ABSTRACT
This special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly engages comics, graphic storytelling, and creative methods of research and production in technical communication. The guest editors briefly overview intersections between comics and technical communication, then introduce the special issue’s contents and contributions to ongoing conversations in the field.
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Notes on contributors
Erin Kathleen Bahl
Erin Kathleen Bahl, who illustrated this introduction and our call for proposals, is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Kennesaw State University. Her research explores the possibilities digital technologies afford for creating knowledge and telling stories. She publishes scholarship on comics and makes folklore-inspired vector art webcomics.
Sergio Figueiredo
Sergio Figueiredo is an associate professor in the Department of English at Kennesaw State University. His research focuses on the relationship between comics, new and emerging media, the histories of rhetoric, and electracy. In 2017, he published a translation of Rodolphe Topffer’s essays on the invention of modern comics, Inventing Comics (Parlor Press, 2017).
Rich Shivener
Rich Shivener is an assistant professor in the Writing Department at York University. His research revolves around digital media composing and emotions. Prior to his professorship, he was a technical communicator and reported on comics for magazines.
