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A timely collection about race and immigration in Paris by one of France's most revered cult comic book artists. Alagb� uses stark, endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race, oppression and escape. --Publishers Weekly One of the most arresting comics works to hit stands in a good long while. --Abraham Riesman, Vulture N�gres 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.... The book...deserves attention. 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

Negres 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.... The book...deserves attention. 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

A timely collection about race and immigration in Paris by one of France's most revered cult comic book artists. Alagbe uses stark, endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race, oppression and escape. --Publishers Weekly Negres 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.... The book...deserves attention. 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 Negres 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.... The book...deserves attention. 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

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Yvan Alagbe was born in Paris and spent three years of his youth in West Africa. He returned to study mathematics and physics at the Universite de Paris-Sud, where he met Olivier Marboeuf. Alagbe and Marboeuf founded a contemporary visual arts review called L'oeil carnivore and the magazine Le Cheval sans tate (""The Headless Horse""), which gained a cult following for its publication of innovative graphic art and comics. Labeling these artistic collaborations as ""Dissidence Art Work,"" Alagbe and Marboeuf soon founded their own publishing house, Amok, drawing from the material serialized in Le Cheval, including the first version of Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures. In 2001, Amok partnered with the publishing group Freon to establish the Franco-Belgian collaboration Fremok, now a major European graphic novels publisher. Alagbe lives in Paris. Donald Nicholson-Smith is an award-winning translator of French literature. He has translated Jean-Patrick Manchette's Fatale and The Mad and the Bad, Jean-Paul Clebert's Paris Vagabond (all NYRB Classics), and the forthcoming NYR Comics title The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux. He lives in New York City.

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