The Conney Project on Jewish Arts, in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival, presents:
Heavyweight
Solomon Brager
April 10
7:00pm
Madison Central Library, Community Room 301 & 302
About Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory (Solomon Brager)
Heavyweight is an analog inkwash comic about situating family Holocaust history in the context of ongoing colonialism, resisting trauma narratives that excuse the violences of the present, and figuring out whether the ghosts you’ve invented to keep you company are really the ghosts you need.
Solomon J. Brager is a cartoonist and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Their comics and research have appeared in The Nib, Jewish Currents, ArtForum, World War III Illustrated, Pinko Magazine, Refract Journal, and The New Inquiry, among other publications. They hold a PhD from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and teach in history, media, and gender studies.