Sol J Brager

@soljbrager.bsky.social

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Author of HEAVYWEIGHT (William Morrow 2024). Historian, teacher, cartoonist. Mostly drawing comics, doing research. https://solomonbrager.com/

Cartoon guy in a way too big suit saying “I am the global average height for men! Come on!”
The thumbnail sketch and final drawing for a comic of a bunch of people reading at a student encampment
A weird tree fall on a car
Trees down around Prospect Park one is on a car.
My dog having a trauma response to fireworks.
The citations and notes section at the back of Heavyweight.
Sketch for an in-process comic, setting the NYT and Atlantic on fire.
One of my more worn out mitsubishi drafting pencils, and an in-progress drawing.
David Hockney-socks
Jewish currents spring 2026, a black cover with white silhouettes on it
Hosing off a cyanotype print in the grass, the image slowly appears, of a folding chair with wildflowers in a plastic gas station cup that reads “ALL THE SIPS!”
“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.
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!
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.
My open sketchbook with a red and blue Mitsubishi drafting pencil + the bottom of my Mac computer with reference materials open.
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.
Thumbnails for a comic, a chalkboard reads “today’s transsexual agenda: full communism now”
A list of favorite guys names in my diary in 2002: Hayden, Tristan, Aidan, Adrian, Griffin
Me, a normal guy, with a regular face.
Ben Passmore, Sol Brager, Pony Rose the dog, and Lou Tam sit in Burning Books bookstore in Buffalo taking about comics
Buffalo
Article on how AI sucks with a browser pop up offering to give an AI summary of the anti-AI article.
The author, a white guy with a mustache in a red took reading from a comic about the film Daddy Dearest at Pete’s Candy Store.
Scene from Shrinking two friends in a car singing Les Mis
Thank you for the thought, the risk, the clarity (and sometimes the beautiful lack of it) that you brought to your application
Blowing the whistle, recording the agent, getting license plate numbers, making sure mutual aid was happening, protecting families, and following up. This is the kind of resistance work we need to do to go toe-to-toe with the federal government.
Flier for “drawing sense memory” comics workshop at UIUC 4pm March 27
Flier for UIUC Holocaust Genocide and Memory Studies graduate conference March 27th featuring keynote by yours truly Solomon Brager esteemed author
“I spoke with upper management regarding your request. As business operating costs have risen significantly I am unable to offer you”
Loose sketches from a figure drawing session and the news, of a cute naked bear and a heinous cop in a gas mask with a beanbag gun and safariland tear gas.
A nasty amount of pencil dust on my hands, sketchbook in the background.
Detail of an In progress oil painting that is starting to look like something, in this case, a dog.
A cast iron figurine of a skunk with the head of Adolf Hitler found at an antique mall in Tennessee.
Multiple fraudulent charges from the MTA on my credit card statement.