Queenie : La Marraine de Harlem

In 2021, Éditions Anne Carrière launched Queenie : La Marraine de Harlem, a single-issue graphic novel by artist Elizabeth Colomba. The book dramatizes the real-life story of Queenie, a Black gangster and philanthropist who carved out a powerful, violent empire in 1920s Harlem. Colomba’s lush, historically grounded artwork brings this overlooked figure to vivid life, restoring her place in the annals of American crime and resistance. A striking, self-contained work, it stands as a distinctive entry in the modern European bande dessinée tradition.