ABO COMIX

ABO is a collective of artists and activists who smashed together their love of comics and hatred of the prison industrial complex in order to keep queer prisoners connected to community outside prison walls and help them get paid for their creative labor. We work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ and HIV+ prisoners through the comix medium with 100% of profits going back to incarcerated artists and organizations working towards prison abolition and queer advocacy. Our mission is to take a sledgehammer to the culture that treats humans as disposable, criminalizes the poor, and boasts a sense of justice at the expense of oppressed and vulnerable populations. Through the art form we love the most, we hope to proliferate the idea that a better world means redefining our concepts of justice and accountability without relying on cops, the state, or its sycophants to solve our interpersonal and societal issues by locking people in cages.

We recognize the prison strikers as our comrades in struggle against the prison industrial complex. Without a strong, committed, and organized front on the inside, we on the outside are limited in our capacity to curtail the prison system’s growing influence.

The unrestrained greed of the prison industrial complex claimed the lives of seven comrades at Lee Correctional Institution. They were not the casualties of an accident, but victims of an apparatus of slave labor that forces the most vulnerable in our society into degrading, inhumane living conditions.