Black Cartoonists set to hold "Demonstration"

According to Newsweek, there are over 200 syndicated comic strips in U.S. newspapers, but only 15 show strips with regular black characters by black cartoonist. So on February 10th, Darrin Bell, a black cartoonist ("Candorville") and eight other cartoonists are going to hold a demonstration. And all black cartoonists don't write/draw strip soley based on black characters or storylines.

No. They won't be picketing outside newspaper offices, but on February 10th, each will be drawing a variation of the same comic strip. This will be a smack at readers and editors who treat all of their work as being the same.

Most of the newsprint black comic strips I have seen tend to appear to be quite similar in themes. Newsweek asked Bell, why did they decide to act on this now?

Bell: "I just thought, enough is enough. When one of my cartoons gets added to a page, I dread asking my syndicate what I replaced because it's too often one of the other 15 "black" strips, even though they have nothing to do with mine thematically. Many of us have even been told: adding one means cutting another."
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Follow the jump to see who else is participating in this protest.