In Black Arms to Hold You Up, Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore tumbles - literally - through more than a century of armed Black resistance against the state. From Robert Charles's shootout with the police in 1900, to the Block Power movement in the 1960 to the Los Angeles and George Floyd uprisings of the 1990s and 2020 meet firsthand the mothers and fathers of the Black freedom struggle, whose stories were often as tragic as they were heroic.
What after so many decades lost to violence, is there left to fight for ? Deeply researched, grimly funny, and bracingly introspective, Black Arms to Hold You Up dares to search for an answer.
In Black Arms to Hold You Up, Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore tumbles - literally - through more than a century of armed Black resistance against the state. From Robert Charles's shootout with the police in 1900, to the Block Power movement in the 1960 to the Los Angeles and George Floyd uprisings of the 1990s and 2020 meet firsthand the mothers and fathers of the Black freedom struggle, whose stories were often as tragic as they were heroic.
What after so many decades lost to violence, is there left to fight for ? Deeply researched, grimly funny, and bracingly introspective, Black Arms to Hold You Up dares to search for an answer.