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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you haven't picked up the new ADL Critical Reader, get it from Pluto with the discount code ADL30! I'm in it with a lot of really smart people.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pretty lucky in the friend department.

Remy bumps Bear while he looks at me. Remy is a fat tabby cat, Bear is a small brown and white dog, I am a guy in a hoodie looking lovingly at Bear. We are on an orange couch.

Same picture as before but Bear is kissing my nose while Remy looks at me.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kalshi is doing a promotion on 125th st in front of @housingworksnyc.bsky.social and down the street from @onpointnyc.bsky.social, I am infuriated. Their marketing is deceptive and really clearly targeting vulnerable communities that have been locked out of financial markets.

Kalshi selling or giving out coffee in a truck with the slogans “markets for everyone” and “freedom to forecast”

A Kalshi coffee cup that reads “freedom to forecast”

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

PSA of the day if you see a pigeon alone on the street at night puffed up, that pigeon needs your help. Pigeons are a species that we domesticated and abandoned and we have (even more of) a responsibility to care for them. Anyway this guy is heading to the Wild Bird Fund for a check up.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The excerpt, which is chapter 5 of Heavyweight, is in this newly released collection “Multidirectional Memory in Comics” from Brill Fink, which also includes a reflection I wrote on the chapter as well as what I believe is the first published academic essay about the book.

A photo of the cover of the book Multidirectional Memory in Comics from Brill Fink

An essay I wrote about my research process

A photo of an academic paper about Heavyweight

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One day I hope my book gets like a premium reprint—I put a lot of work into the depth of inkwash and the way it was printed washed that out quite a bit. I knew that but it’s really driven home looking at an excerpt printed by a different press. The tones are so much deeper.

Heavyweight the original book on top of/ compared to an excerpt published in a different book.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I had to get a doctorate in gender studies for this, you’re welcome.

a comic in progress about gender— a paper doll of a guy with a paper doll suit.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I haven’t written or spoken much publicly about getting fired from my job in 2020 or the repercussions for me, first because of a NDA and then because it has never felt like I want to pull attention— my essay in this new book is the first I’ve sat down and written something about what happened. 1/2

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It looks really good in print!

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Another nudge that if you want to read my new comic in print, subscribe to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social —and use code CONTRIBUTOR30 for 30% off your subscription: secure.jewishcurrents.org/forms/170

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Banned from San Quentin for light transsexual satire. jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/f...

DISRUPTING THE ORDER: Jewish Currents received a letter last week from the mailroom of the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center informing us that the fall issue of the magazine is being “withheld” from a subscriber imprisoned there, “pending review.” According to the mailroom office assistant who signed the letter, the cartoon by Solomon Brager, “Diary of a Transgender Ideology Extremist,” which is available for subscribers to read on our site, violates two separate sections of California’s prison contraband law. Those sections ban people from possessing any matter “of a character tending to incite murder; arson; riot; or any form of violence or physical harm to any person, or any ethnic, gender, racial, religious, or other group,” and from possessing matter concerning “plans to disrupt the order, or breach the security, of any institution.”

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Some more, from my Philadelphia days, I might have gotten paid for the Defiant Archives one but the Dybbuk one is literally just to show a movie at a friend’s house.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I just found a cache of scans of some fliers I made in my very early 20s, mostly for zine stuff and I’m pretty certain all unpaid, and I really miss making stuff like this, spending a day drawing or collaging a flier just to let people know something is happening. These are all DC ones—

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

honestly @newsweek.com is crazy for this, the 5k dividend is not real, no one qualified because it’s not a thing. Trump just said some shit.

Newsweek article “Donald Trump Announces New $5,000 Dividend Checks: Here’s Who Qualifies” which is absolutely a lie.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“this is the only flavor of tepache we have idk how you were able to order grapefruit.”

can of mango tepache with a message written on blue tape.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

a warning— I missed my subway stop not once but TWICE because I was so engrossed in Nicholas Russell’s debut novel Observer. Absolutely go get it right now but take care it will absorb you completely

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Thank you to my editors at Jewish Currents who were like “can you make a comic about trans politics yes you can have jokes.” And now, my jokes are your jokes.

a comic of a gay with a mustache in a recruiter tank top holding a pamphlet that says “hey: just try it why not!”

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

back from macdowell where i spent a lot of time figuring out character design and world building for my new book (damn you/ thank you @mattielubchansky.com) and a decent amount of time looking at fungus. i already miss it. #madeatmacdowell

character design sketches for a new project, pinned to a wall.

me showing a slime mold on the edge of a knife to some friends

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I love that my editors fact checked this panel in a forthcoming comic.

Cartoon guy in a way too big suit saying “I am the global average height for men! Come on!”

Fact checker confirming that I am 5’7”, the global average height for men.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Thumbnail v. Inks (shading/ lettering to come) before I finished drawing the book covers.

The thumbnail sketch and final drawing for a comic of a bunch of people reading at a student encampment

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This one is pretty wild, in the lot next door.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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.

Trees down around Prospect Park one is on a car.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Who wants to put together a “People who appreciate a book that considers how patterns of history emerge and reverberate in haunting layers build list” for Heavyweight?

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

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.”

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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.

The citations and notes section at the back of Heavyweight.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

One more day of Pride and then they’ll put me away until next year (jk this one comes out in the fall).

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Happy pride from this hotbed of screaming faggotry! www.moma.org/magazine/art...

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Summer is always a tough time financially because there’s no teaching money— if you want to support the work of researched leftist comics consider following my patreon!— i post in-process work/ outtakes/ updates/ mail stuff out occasionally… www.patreon.com/solomonbrager

One of my more worn out mitsubishi drafting pencils, and an in-progress drawing.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

RIP to the guy who got me into gym socks and dog paintings, may the afterlife be full of dachshunds and butts.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“Running Toward ICE” in the spring print issue of Jewish Currents, finally arrived!

Jewish currents spring 2026, a black cover with white silhouettes on it

The first page of Running Towards ICE which includes drawings of victims of ICE, ICE officers with guns, monarch butterflies, a chain link fence etc.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This one really got me. R.I.P. Anthony Head, one of the origins of my interest in *older men*—Also fucked of this headline not to mention the musical masterpiece Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008).

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Made this for Queer Trans War Ban some Pride past— all the art for the project can be downloaded and used— queertranswarban.wordpress.com

“War profiteers kill queers— cut ties with Boeing” a drawing in black and shades of lavender of a giant beautiful woman smashing a Boeing drone she is wearing Pleasers and short shorts and a crop top with a cleave cut out and a flower in her hair she is awesome.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Making some gay art, what’s new with you.

A colored pencil sketch of a pile of vintage porn magazines featuring photos of Richard Locke including one of him putting on a condom, drawn mostly in blue and red. It is not a finished drawing!

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In every relationship there’s a boyfriend who doesn’t believe in overhead lighting and a boyfriend drawing by the light of a neck flashlight.

Yours truly a guy with glasses and a mustache in a button down shirt drawing in a notebook with a bendy neck flashlight around my neck.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Clocking back in for deadline comics crunch. Any podcast recommendations? (Will post close ups of pencils and sketches on Patreon today!)

My open sketchbook with a red and blue Mitsubishi drafting pencil + the bottom of my Mac computer with reference materials open.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Really funny that I have used this precise exercise (with different source material) to show my students what NOT to do when making comics. This made me… actually very upset.

So, when I found Fun Home, I realized, oh, here’s a graphic novel where you can actually take all of the images away, and the text reads as a standalone essay. I’m not a full-time teacher in any capacity, but sometimes I moonlight teaching workshops, and that’s one of my favorite things to do. I give students the text of Fun Home as essays first, not telling them what it comes from, and have them look at all the thought and care to literary structure that went into this before it became a kickass graphic novel.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

lol Mattie didn’t you know, he’s a cis ally why aren’t you being more grateful.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The transsexual agenda is coming to a publication near you (Summer 2026)

Thumbnails for a comic, a chalkboard reads “today’s transsexual agenda: full communism now”

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

On the one hand if I had transitioned as a child I would probably have had less turmoil on the other hand my name probably would be Tristan, so, dodge one bullet catch another. (2002)

A list of favorite guys names in my diary in 2002: Hayden, Tristan, Aidan, Adrian, Griffin

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Reality is very individuated and subjective apparently because I’ve been getting she/her’d all morning.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Had a really nice time in Buffalo talking with long-time snack conspirator/ anti-carceral disability studies scholar Dr. Lou Tam and truly one of the best comics artists full stop @benpassmore.bsky.social (buy Black Arms to Hold You Up now)—

Ben Passmore, Sol Brager, Pony Rose the dog, and Lou Tam sit in Burning Books bookstore in Buffalo taking about comics

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In fact the thing I am accusing you of, which you keep making more and more clear, is having a totally incorrect understanding of Trill biology, identity and sociality. Also not that it’s particularly relevant but Jadzia Dax is canonically bisexual.

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