Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award recipient Ben Passmore will discuss his most recent book, Black Arms to Hold you Up, a boisterous, darkly funny, and sobering march through Black militant history from Robert Charles’s shootout with the police in 1900, to the Black Power movement in the 1960s, to the Los Angeles and George Floyd uprisings of the 1990s and 2020.

Ben Passmore is the author of the ongoing comic book series Daygloayhole, as well as the award winning, Your Black Friend. He also wrote and illustrated Sports Is Hell (Koyama Press), collaborated with Ezra Claytan Daniels on BTTM FDRS and contributes to publications such as The Nib and the New York Times. He lives in Philadelphia.