Comic / Hey Chubbs!

Christopher Blackwell February 24, 2025

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Christopher Blackwell is an award-winning journalist currently serving a 45-year prison sentence in Washington State. He is a contributing writer at Jewish Currents and the co-founder and current executive director of Look2Justice.

Solomon Brager is a cartoonist and writer in New York, author of the graphic memoir Heavyweight, and a member of the Pinko Magazine editorial collective.