packing an entire suitcase of paper for residency like “what if i haven’t brought enough paper!”
Sol J Brager
@soljbrager.bsky.social
Author of HEAVYWEIGHT (William Morrow 2024). Historian, teacher, cartoonist. Mostly drawing comics, doing research. https://solomonbrager.com/
every so often i remember that i spend over 50% of my income on rent and healthcare and that’s… really discouraging.
Queer & / or Feminist Archives in the 2020s: 15-minute survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... deadline extended to July 25 Please fill this out right now and tell your friends to, as well. It's a chance to share what you've been going through or brag that you haven't been going through it
Queer & / or Feminist Archives in the 2020s
My name is Jenna Freedman, and I'm the founder and former Director of the Barnard Zine Library and an adjunct lecturer at the Queens College School of Information Studies. I am working on a book chapt...
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A trio of Senate Republicans from Indiana, Oklahoma, & Alabama have introduced S 4925 a copy of HR 7661- the exact same text, which would ban any book mentioning "gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. Please call your Senators to say NO to both bills! More info below
Maia Kobabe@redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere are currently three federal book ban bills aiming to ban all trans books from U.S. public schools! HR 2616, HR 8705, HR 7661. Please call your representatives and ask them to vote no on these bills! Follow @authorsabb.bsky.social for updates. #bookbans #bookchallenges #HR2616 #HR8705 #HR7661
my five year old niece was here for two days with four adults to hang out with and i have not been this exhausted in years i absolutely do not know how anyone does it like i am going to sleep for a week but my sister just went home with this kid plus her entire other kid that’s too much!
has anyone read the novel The Crow Girl I really need to debrief on the perpetrator’s identity.
Cartoonists— do you print your pencils in non-photo blue onto your inking paper and if so… how?
Heading to MacDowell residency for three weeks a week from today! Any tips from folks who have been? I have been told to BYO hot sauce.
After three years of research, interviews and labor, our first episode of “Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements before and after FOSTA-SESTA” by the Hacking//Hustling Collective is now live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnUr...
EP 01 / Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements before & after FOSTA-SESTA
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RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...
I love that my editors fact checked this panel in a forthcoming comic.
Thumbnail v. Inks (shading/ lettering to come) before I finished drawing the book covers.
The TERF movement really features some of the world’s thinnest eyebrows.
muscle will never sell itself to netflix, paramount, or sony and will never pivot to making content — i think that’s something worth supporting 🙂 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...
Muscle Distribution@muscledistribution.bsky.social · 4w ago
Is this a normal amount of trees down in Brooklyn or more trees than usual down in Brooklyn? It seems like a normal amount of storm but an abnormal amount of tree.
Early 20th-century artist Claude Cahun left a legacy of aesthetic and political autonomy in the face of fascism. Tausif Noor's introduction of Cahun's Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is now out from behind the paywall jewishcurrents.org/claude-cahun...
Claude Cahun’s Disavowals
The early 20th-century artist left a legacy of aesthetic and political autonomy in the face of fascism.
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Real haters don't leap. They wait and watch. They know the true reasons for hating will be Revealed
These emails are so funny. “Because it is not just one book. It is Solomon Brager growing up with the story of their great grandparents' escape from Nazi Germany, the myth of a boxing champion great grandfather thrashing Joseph Goebbels and carrying his family over the Pyrenees.”
19 days left for @muscledistribution.bsky.social to raise another 30K to support this restoration initiative - theirs is a pretty reasonable ask for 4 long-unavailable films + helps a trans-owned company stay afloat while doing important cultural/archival work - www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...
Dozens of people waiting on the platform when a conductor from a train on another line shouts “there’s no trains” no announcement no train time update no transfer tickets just an MTA employee upstairs shrugging and saying “go to a different station.” The @mta.info is like a sick social experiment.
hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering
Friendly reminder to make a plan for your dogs this 4th of July— at the very least, keep them inside. Every year this day is a crisis for dogs bolting including slipping leashes and jumping fences out of panic and confusion and getting lost or worse.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.This is going to be a disaster
This was an absolutely monumental part of my teenage years along with that weird animation about the world ending where a French guy says “but I am le tired.”
David Firth@davidfirth.bsky.social · last mo.22 years ago today I released Salad Fingers.
I don’t think it’s a perfect approach but for Heavyweight I opted to have a list of endnotes in the back that reference the page and panel without inserting numbers into panels. If the book was physically larger I might have opted for footnotes on the page but they would have been minuscule.
I teach a course called Graphic History where one of the things we talk about is how cartoonists use sources in published work and also how to do research for comics, perhaps these conversations and skill sets would be helpful to some in the comics world.