Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures

<i><b><b>One of the </b></b></i><b><b>Globe & Mail’</b></b><i><b><b>s 100 Best Books of 2018</b></b></i><br><b><br></b><br><b>A timely collection of work about race and immigration in Paris by one of France's most revered cult comic book artists.</b><br>Yvan Alagbé is one of the most innovative and provocative artists in the world of comics. In the stories gathered in <i>Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures</i>—drawn between 1994 and 2011, and never before available in English—he uses stark, endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race, oppression and escape. It is both an extraordinary experiment in visual storytelling and an essential, deeply personal political statement.<br><br>With unsettling power, the title story depicts the lives of undocumented migrant workers in Paris. Alain, a Beninese immigrant, struggles to protect his family and his white girlfriend, Claire, while engaged in a strange, tragic dance of obsession and repulsion with Mario, a retired French Algerian policeman. It is already a classic of alternative comics, and, like the other stories in this collection, becomes more urgent every day.<br><br>This NYRC edition is an oversized paperback with French flaps, printed endpapers, and extra-thick paper, and features new English hand-lettering and a brand-new story, exclusive to this edition.