Misery of Love by Yvan Alagbé. $29.95, 232 pages, color, softcover, translated from French by by Donald Nicholson-Smith, published by New York Review of Comics.

I’ve sold this book many times in its original French edition, Ecole De Miserie, and I’m extremely grateful to offer this masterpiece to our readers in a great new English translation from New York Review of Comics by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Dubbed a ‘spiritual sequel’ to Alagbé’s Yellow Negores work, I think this is actually the superior book (and can be fully enjoyed independent of reading the other). The storytelling here is nothing short of revolutionary, matching the critique at the heart of the narrative. The story is told through images here that are open rather than didactic, and those open images are incredibly beautiful. A poetic work that proves the aggressive strength of poetry at its finest, an essential graphic novel.

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