YELLOW BABY #1 - ALTERNATIVE COMICS (2003)

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ENGLISH BOOK

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Yellow Baby opens with the first part of a longer work, “Turtle, turtle”. A young boy, Cesar, goes to live with his grandmother in Mexico for the summer, and begins to head down a path of discovery. Alexander infuses this story with a wonderful sense of narration, which moves rhythmically with the art in a way that makes the story sound as if the protagonist is recounting the story directly to you. “Free Ideas” is a twist on the old “where do you get your ideas?” question, as Alexander begins to offer up a series of crazy ideas for stories, each goofier than the one before. They’re all deliberate takes on other existing ideas, but Alexander takes each of the ideas one step further, hammering the joke with an added layer of nervous laughter. “Making Little Boys”, on the other hand, is much more serious as two young girls use a concoction to “make little boys” out of a mold. Short and sweet, Alexander knows how to disturb the reader with a simple and innocent idea that’s gone horribly wrong. “Fil’s La La” is an over-the-top explosion of violence and mutilation as Fil gets his very own “la la” and then things go horribly wrong.