“Really profound and alive...beautifully drawn, painted, and felt.” — Tom Hart, New York Times #1 bestselling graphic novelist, author of Rosalie Lightning"Heavyweight raises the bar of what we can expect from nonfiction comics.” — Sara Lautman, The New Yorker cartoonist"Filled with equal parts tragedy, humor, and inter-generational anxiety, Heavyweight is a Holocaust memoir for the grandchildren. From the global to the personal, history expands and contracts under Brager's pen. I couldn't put it down." — Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto“[An] introspective visual memoir… The deeper Brager reaches into Erich’s past, the more questions they have about the intersectionality of historical artifacts and ethical responsibility, of those who avert their gaze unless touched by exigent circumstances. A slow, emotional buildup develops when Brager’s haunting and mesmerizing scavenger hunt through the annals of memory reveals the ugly cracks in humanity’s desperate attempts at survival.” — Booklist"An intense, brilliantly conceived graphic memoir announcing the arrival of a new talent to watch.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“I learned so much from Heavyweight. As Sol presents their family’s story, I felt like I was sharing in their process of discovery, exploring the nuances of memory, research, trauma, and, yes, boxing. Sol’s beautiful, hand-drawn and painted comics weave together sweeping historical narrative with family stories of resistance and escape. Heavyweight is nonfiction comics at its best.” — Dan Nott, artist and author of Hidden Systems“Rendered with loving elegance, Heavyweight is an exquisite project of excavation and memory-work, an act of compassionate and pinpoint scholarship. Brager zooms in and out of history seamlessly, weighing their own reckoning with ancestry and trauma, and provides us, as a result, with a hefty testimony to the power of comics to act as witness to generations of lived experience.” — Bishakh Som, author of Apsara Engine and Spellbound“Heavyweight is a moving graphic memoir that intertwines family history with the author’s struggle for understanding, uncovering more questions than answers…This is an impressive layering of complicated insights and personal discovery, and Brager deftly uses comics to explore these complex ideas.” — Jennifer Camper, cartoonist and director of the Queers & Comics Conferences“[An] eye-opening graphic memoir debut… Brager compels readers to look at atrocities in the world around them… This brilliant and incisive work takes stock of the intermingled horror, humor, and pathos of history.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Narrated in shades of gray, Brager's graphic memoir offers a sensitive and incisive personal history about the intersecting legacies of oppression and colonial violence." — New York Times
