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Yvan Alagbé: Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures (2012/2018)

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Episode 88: Alagbé, Ruillier, Kupperman, Starkings

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Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures by Yvan Alagbé

The Strange by Jerome Ruillier

All the Answers by Michael Kupperman

The Beef by Richard Starkings and Shaky Kane

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Review: Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures

Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures is excellent and confronts, racism, ageism, sexism, xenophobia, and nationalism #comics

Living in America, we tend to be caught up in our own bubble, to plainly say, we only concern ourselves with what is going on in the USA. The news media is good for contriving this narrative, as they usually push the fact that America is a superpower. For the most part, this narrative is very much true, as our influence not only politically but culturally can’t be felt in places most American…

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Early Review: Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures

Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures confronts racism, ageism, sexism, & xenophobia #comics

Living in America, we tend to be caught up in our own bubble, to plainly say, we only concern ourselves with what is going on in the USA. The news media is good for contriving this narrative, as they usually push the fact that America is a superpower. For the most part, this narrative is very much true, as our influence not only politically but culturally can’t be felt in places most American…

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Yvan Alagbe @ New York Comics and Picture Story Symposium, Parsons.

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Rebus Books will not be exhibiting at this year's SPX festival, but copies of Barrel of Monkeys will be available from Frémok at W69.

Artists Yvan Alagbé and Dominique Goblet will represent Frémok, and will bring with them a number of new releases. These include Plus si entente, a gorgeous new avant-garde work produced collaboratively by Goblet and Kai Pfeiffer; École de la misère, Alagbé's new meditation upon intertwined legacies of colonialism and desire (recently reviewed on The Comics Journal); Histoire de la Belgique (pour tous) a brand new Cowboy Henk book by Kamagurka and Herr Seele that offers a hilariously absurd false history of Belgium presented in comics and surreal paintings; and Dernière bande, the self-proclaimed final graphic novel by "the Pope of Frémok," Alex Barbier. 

Other titles on hand will include Frémok's Cowboy Henk anthology, an instant sell-out at MoCCA; Eric Lambé's ball-point-pen masterpiece, Le fils du roi; Stefan Van Dinther's CHRZ; other works by Alagbé and Goblet; and many more fascinating and exquisitely produced titles. 

Alagbé and Goblet will appear in conversation with Bill Kartalopoulos on Saturday at 1:30 in the White Flint Auditorium:

The Roots of Frémok: Yvan Alagbé and Dominique Goblet

Yvan Alagbé and Dominique Goblet are foundational figures in the poetic comics movement represented by the the avant-garde publishing house Frémok. Alagbé’s work expresses in harsh lines and soft tones his narratives of mysterious desire and explosive cultural conflict, as in his most recent book, École de la misère. Goblet’s work troubles the distinctions between fiction and autobiography, and between narrative comics and poetic image-making. Her new graphic novel Plus si entente was produced collaboratively with Kai Pfeiffer to test the possibilities of narrative within the comics form. Moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos.

Frémok's presence at SPX represents a still-rare opportunity to learn more about the history of this unique and significant publisher, and to explore their backlist and latest publications.