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Book

Your black friend and other strangers

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL 305.896 P288.1 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

San Francisco, CA : Silver Sprocket, 2018.

Physical Description

119 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Summary

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about race, gentrification, the prison system, online dating, gross punks, bad street art, kung fu movie references, beating up God, and lots of other grown-up stuff with refreshing doses of humor and lived relatability.

Contents

  • As way of... introduction / Ben Passmore
  • Your black friend
  • It's not about you
  • OK stoopd!
  • I don't want no smoke
  • Art is shit
  • A letter from a Stone Mountain jail
  • No justice, just us!
  • When Trump Trump's family
  • The last defender
  • Take em down
  • Ally I need is love
  • Whose free speech?
  • A Pantomine horse I
  • Mrsa & Billy
  • Ben and the porn
  • The punk lord
  • Nolimitz vs Gawd
  • Goodbye
  • The vampire
  • Goodbye, for real this time tho.

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