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> A timely collection of work about race and immigration in Paris by one of France's most revered cult comic book artists.</b> <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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.