Comics, Crisis, and Catastrophe: Eli Valley and Solomon Brager in Conversation
Join Jewish Currents in celebrating contributing writer Eli Valley’s new book, Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque, a collection of eight years of Valley’s comics, contexts, and analysis. Valley will be in conversation with Solomon Brager, another Jewish Currents contributing writer and cartoonist, whose graphic memoir Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory was published last year.
Valley and Brager—both of whose cartoons have been essential to the Jewish Currents canon in the years since the magazine’s relaunch in 2018—will discuss art, history, and memory at a time of unending crisis; comic satire and memoir as testimony; and the challenges of rendering the unimaginable. We hope to see you there.
This event will be in-person at Topos Too, located at 59-22 Myrtle Ave in Ridgewood, Queens, NY. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Masks are optional and will be available for attendees on-site.
Doors at 7pm and the discussion at 7:30pm. Seating is limited, so please arrive early!
Daniel Sieradski
Eli Valley is a Jewish Currents contributing writer. His comics collection Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel, and his new book, Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque, are available from OR Books.
Solomon Brager is the author of the graphic memoir Heavyweight, a 2023 – 25 Jerome Hill Artists Fellow, a member of the Pinko magazine editorial collective, and a contributing writer at Jewish Currents.
