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'Your Black Friend' Is Back, With Plenty To Say

Ben Passmore expands on his popular self-published 2016 comic — also called Your Black Friend — in this new volume, jam packed with dense, brilliantly colored drawings and thoughtful reflections.
"Your Black Friend" by Ben Passmore

It's ironic that the world of "art" comics should be dominated by graphic novels. In a novel, graphic or no, you've got to tell a story. But many artists who create graphic novels are storytellers second, and it shows. It's not their fault; they're just not as interested in the demands of plot and character as they are in the possibilities of panel and line.

Ben Passmore's is a collection,

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