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The French Beninese cartoonist Yvan Alagb\u00e9 has been\u00a0<\/i>an influential player<\/a>\u00a0in the French avant-garde comics scene since the early nineties, when he copublished the\u00a0anthology <\/i>Le cheval sans t\u00eate. In 1994, his first book,\u00a0<\/i>Yellow Negroes, became\u00a0an\u00a0instant cult classic.\u00a0It tells\u00a0the story of the\u00a0romance between Claire, a white Frenchwoman, and Alain, a Beninese immigrant in the country illegally. Alain lives with his sister Martine, who makes a living doing housework for well-to-do families. In 1997, Alagb\u00e9 released \u201cDyaa,\u201d a short story\u00a0exploring Martine\u2019s tragic romantic involvement with another immigrant. The story is published in full below. In 2012, in France, the two stories were collected, along with other work, into a single volume. This\u00a0April, they will be released for the first time in English, under the title\u00a0<\/em>Yellow Negroes\u00a0and\u00a0Other Imaginary Creatures.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Yvan Alagb\u00e9 is a French graphic artist and cofounder of Fr\u00e9mok, a European comics publisher. He lives in Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n

Donald Nicholson-Smith\u00a0is an English-born translator who lives in New York City.<\/em><\/p>\n

From <\/span><\/em>Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures<\/span>,<\/span> coming April 3 from New York Review Comics.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Copyright \u00a9 2018 by Yvan Alagb\u00e9.\u00a0<\/span>Translation copyright \u00a9 2018 Donald Nicholson-Smith.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The French Beninese cartoonist Yvan Alagb\u00e9 has been\u00a0an influential player\u00a0in the French avant-garde comics scene since the early nineties, when he copublished the\u00a0anthology Le cheval sans t\u00eate. In 1994, his first book,\u00a0Yellow Negroes, became\u00a0an\u00a0instant cult classic.\u00a0It tells\u00a0the story of the\u00a0romance between Claire, a white Frenchwoman, and Alain, a Beninese immigrant in the country illegally. 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