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The Be-Bop Barbarians

By By Gary Phillips, Illustrated by Dale Berry

The Be-Bop Barbarians
The following is an exclusive excerpt from The Be-Bop Barbarians, written by Gary Phillips and illustrated by Dale Berry. In the following excerpt from this graphic novel set in the 1950s, an illustrator with her own comics line is recruited to draw for the FBI, while another illustrator sees his creation stolen from him after the newspaper he writes for discovers he is passing as white.

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From THE BE-BOP BARBARIANS, written by Gary Phillips and Illustrated by Dale Berry. Used with the permission of the publisher, Pegasus Books. Copyright © 2019 by Dale Berry.

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