Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance

Comics & Graphic Novels

Passmore, Ben

Graphic Novels

Pantheon

An Afrofuturist horror-comedy about gentrification, hip hop, and cultural appropriation. Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, the “Bottomyards” is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the walls of their new home. Like a cross between Jordan Peele’s Get Out and John Carpenter’s The Thing, Daniels and Passmore’s BTTM FDRS (pronounced “bottomfeeders”) offers a vision of horror that is gross and gory in all the right ways. At turns funny, scary, and thought provoking, it unflinchingly confronts the monsters―both metaphoric and real―that are displacing cultures in urban neighborhoods today. Full-color illustrations throughout.

BTTM FDRS

Daniels, Ezra Claytan

Fantagraphics

After her city wins the Super Bowl for the first time, Tea is separated from her friend during a riot and joins a small clique fighting its way through armed groups of football fanatics to met a star receiver that just might end the civil war or become the city's new oppressive leader.

Sports Is Hell

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Koyama Press

As Boyz II Men sang, â€œitâ€™s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.â€ Itâ€™s hard to say goodbye to love, to friends, to ourselves. Our identity is a myth we make. We were early at a party, early enough to miss all those pretentious kids that knew about Catharsis before you. You had a long hard day making protest fliers with all the Aâ€™s circled and you just want to makeout with the new punks and practice reciting early Amiri Baraka with the only other black punk there. Okay, maybe this is just my myth...In time we have to say goodbye to all the truths we were convinced of so that we can acclimate to the ever changing world. You can get a credit card with an Anarchy symbol on it now, weird right? Our End is neigh but maybe itâ€™s not such a big deal? Maybe thereâ€™s a sunshine after the rain. The comic book Goodbye by Ben Passmore is comprised of three vignettes: A myth about polyamory, a parable about real punks, and an argument for aging gracefully or killing yourself.

Goodbye

Silver Sprocket

Ben Passmore's necessary contribution to the 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. On the heels of viral online success with 500,000+ views, 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 Coatesâ€™ Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen. Known for his politically charged science fiction comics, enthusiastic fans of Passmoreâ€™s work include Brandon Graham (Island, Image Comics), Carolyn Nowak (Lumberjanes) and Josh Simmons (Fantagraphics).

Your Black Friend

History & Criticism

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore, including the Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award-winning "Your Black Friend," named one of NPR's 100 favorite comics of all time in 2017. 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. The comics in this 112-page collection include works previously published by The Nib, VICE, and the As You Were anthology, along with brand new and unreleased material. These comics are essential, humorous, and accessible, told through Passmore's surreal lens in the vibrant full-color hues of New Orleans.

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Review\n"A dead-on parody of the good-and-evil, triumph-and-tragedy narratives fostered by organized sports." --Etelka Lehoczky, NPR\n"Amid the story's chaos and the exhausting noise of politics today, Sports Is Hell provides an unexpected clarity on the complex schisms of modern American culture while serving up a ton of laughs." --Moe Abbas, Broken Frontier\n"A raw political fable that uses a sports night riot to express disillusion with the calculated human sacrifices made in the interest of political gain." --Jamie Lovett, ComicBook.com\nNOW AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER!\nSome wars are for religion and some are for political belief, but this one is for football.\nAfter her city wins the Super Bowl for the first time, Tea is separated from her friend during a riot and joins a small clique fighting its way through armed groups of football fanatics to meet a star receiver that just might end the civil war or become the city's new oppressive leader.

Sports is Hell: Hardcover Edition

Some wars are for religion and some are for political belief, but this one is for football. After her city wins the Super Bowl for the first time, Tea is separated from her friend during a riot and joins a small clique fighting its way through armed groups of football fanatics to meet a star receiver that just might end the civil war or become the city's new oppressive leader.

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Books by Passmore, Ben

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Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance

BTTM FDRS

Sports Is Hell

Goodbye

Your Black Friend

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

Sports is Hell: Hardcover Edition

Sports Is Hell