In Dec. 2023, The B-Town Blog introduced a new cartoon series that profiles homeless residents regarding their experiences in Burien. 

Each resident has experienced the horrors of homelessness, and has survived harrowing and often deeply disturbing experiences.

In Burien, the homeless are vulnerable, often harassed, and often targets of violence. They wish to be treated with basic human decency, and to find homes as soon as possible, and we are doing our best to share their stories.

Meet Dr. Al Brown

Below is a 3-panel B-Toon focused on Dr. Al Brown, who you may have seen before – maybe when he was a barber, or a frontline worker, or perhaps when he tried to play for the Dallas Cowboys…or maybe even when he spent a summer homeless on the streets of Burien, while he was a student earning his degree (that was his fourth year homeless).

Click images to view closeups of full cartoons:

Learn More About Dr. Al Brown

Here’s a link to Dr. Brown’s in-depth dissertation on homelessness:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4606331

As well as his portfolio:

https://alfonsobrown.journoportfolio.com/

And his book on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYPLRMH3

View our other B-Toons here.

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