Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures

He returned to study mathematics and physics at the Université de Paris-Sud, where he met Olivier Marboeuf. In 2001, Amok partnered with the publishing group Fréon to establish the Franco-Belgian collaboration Frémok, now a major European graphic novels publisher. Alagbé and Marboeuf founded a contemporary visual arts review called L’oeil carnivore and the magazine Le Chéval sans tête (“The Headless Horse”), which gained

It is a bold and nakedly intense effort to represent the way bereavement may trigger memories, dreams, and rationalization, as well as to describe how, like it or not, family dictates our lives.” —The Comics Journal. Alagbé uses stark, endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race, oppression and escape." —Publishers Weekly“Nègres is one of those works that becomes emblematic not just of its publisher, but of a particular moment in comics. Where the individual parts just click, where every creative decision feels right and supports the author’s intent, while retaining the spark of youthful ambition. "A timely collection about race and immigration in Paris by one of France's most revered cult comic book artists. The bookdeserves attention

It is already a classic of alternative comics, and, like the other stories in this collection, becomes more urgent every day.. 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. A timely collection of work about race and immigration in Paris by one of France's most revered cult comic book artists.Yvan Alagbé is one of the most innovative and provocative artists in the world of comics. In the stories gathered in Yellow Negroes and Other Ima