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Q: Can you tell us what inspired your book, Heavyweight? How long was the process from premise to production? A: I've been interested in and researching family history and Holocaust memory for a long time—I first started thinking about doing a comic about my grandparents in like 2016, I did a mini-comic called "String of Pearls" that year about my Oma bribing the French resistance with a pearl necklace.

This November you may be considering the most momentous decision of your life, one that could possibly save democracy as we know it or instead usher in a 1000 year rule of Christendom upon the heathen nation of Babylon. Or maybe you are just contemplating whether it’s time to get rid of that fossilized retired gym teacher on the school board who always dozes off when the agenda moves to considering the superintendent’s request for a new school bus, and replace him with the energetic young mom who’s been knocking on all the neighbors doors, often toting one or more of her little ones, in order to plead for an increase in the budget for art and music programs.