Harlem Composition: Adapting Chester Himes into French Comics

Melvin Van Peebles remembers that it was 1963 or 1964 when his boss at the weekly news magazine France-Observateur assigned him to do a story on someone “who had just won some big French crime writing prize.” That someone happened to be another Black American writer living in Paris, Chester Himes—although he had won the Grand prix de littérature policière in 1958, not