Your Black Friend

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*Your Black Friend is also collected in a graphic novel. By Ben Passmore. Published by Silver Sprocket. Softcover, 12 pages, Color, 2016. Ben Passmore's necessary contribution to t he dialogue around race in the United States, Your Black Friend is a letter from your black friend to you about race, racism, friendship and alienation. The revised print edition of the Your Black Friend comic is in gorgeous full color on fancy matte paper stock. Inspired by Frantz Fanon's White Skin, Black Masks, Your Black Friend is just as direct, immediate, and necessary as Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen. "Beneath its sardonic tone lies a truth that is urgent, sincere and deeply affecting." - NPR Books, 100 Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels “Required reading for white people, especially if we hope to be useful allies and decent friends.” - Women Write About Comics, Top Small Press of 2016 “It’s entertaining and comical and heartbreaking, everything an eye-opening experience should be.” - Comics Bulletin "Powerful and possibly one of the best I’ll read this year." - Comics Beat, Best Comics of 2016 Show more