Austin Sauerbrei
ContributorAustin Sauerbrei is a community organizer and artist based in McMinn County, Tennessee. He currently serves as the Director of Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM), a 52-year-old, member-led organization in Tennessee. A lifelong comics enthusiast, he practices visual storytelling as a form of popular education. He is currently writing and illustrating Trouble! at Coal Creek, a graphic novel based on the events of the 1891-1892 miners’ insurrections known as the Coal Creek War (forthcoming from Haymarket Books in spring of 2025).
Reviews
October 3, 2024
“Fight Like Hell. . .”: A Book Review of Black Coal & Red Bandanas
In their new graphic novel, Raymond Tyler and Summer McClinton bring to life stories of labor leader and reformer Mary G. Harris “Mother” Jones and the West Virginia mine wars.