MICE Presents: Comics in the divided age
When:
Friday, Dec 05, 2025 5:30p -
6:30p
Friday, Dec 05, 2025 5:30p -
6:30p
Where:
WBUR CitySpace
890 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
Admission:
$10-30
Hosted by:
Event website:
https://www.wbur.org/events/1052021/mice-presents-comics-in-the-divided-age
How United States history is remembered is often dictated by the loudest voices in the room. In our charged political environment the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 has been intensely debated with significantly different viewpoints. Harvard Law School professor Alan Jenkins grew alarmed about the historical record of Jan. 6 and the future of democracy. A comic book enthusiast, he channeled his concern into “1/6: The Graphic Novel,” developed with graphic novelist Gan Golan and illustrator Will Rosado. The novel imagines what would have happened if the insurrection had succeeded.
Like the re-casting of history on Jan. 6, the national conversation around the killing of Black Americans by law enforcement, has changed amid a second Donald Trump presidency. But cartoonist Ben Passmore has taken the moment to cast a longer historical lens on Black activism with his graphic novel, “Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance.”
In partnership with The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE,) Joel Christian Gill, cartoonist, associate professor of art and chair of the Department of Visual Narrative at Boston University, will lead a conversation with Jenkins and Passmore centered on social justice comics.
Copies of “1/6” and “Black Arms to Hold You Up” will be available for purchase from and Jenkins and Passmore will sign following the conversation.
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