The graphic memoir Big Black: Stand at Attica, written by Frank “Big Black” Smith and Jared Reinmuth, illustrated by Améziane, and published in 2020, presents Smith’s recounting of his life leading up to his incarceration at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, his participation in the 1971 prisoners’ uprising at Attica, and his struggles to deal with the aftereffects of the torture he experienced during the violent suppression of the uprising. Through both its narrative and its formal elements, the comic emphasizes the roles that communities play in shaping Big Black’s life and the events that unfold at Attica, from the community that forms among the mostly Black and Brown prisoners, to the larger white community outside the prison walls, to the community of activists and lawyers who take up Big Black’s case—and indirectly lead to the creation of this comic. As such, Big Black: Stand at Attica presents itself as an act of testimony to the history of police brutality as well a call to continued activism in the face of ongoing injustice, drawing a connection between the intersecting communities depicted in the comic and contemporary America in the time of the Black Lives Matter movement.