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Don't forget on 2/10/8 black & other minority cartoonists, and syndicated ones will participate in a protest, where they will all draw the same comic strip with their own personal style added. The "protest" will be symbolic, because it will be seen as a jab back at newspaper decision makers and readers who treat them all as being the same. Read our related post and go to syndicated cartoonist Darrin Bell's Candorvile site. Bias even affects a cartoonist's career.
Suggestions from Darrin's site to help increase minority cartoonist representation in publications:
Write to your local newspaper or favorite website portal. Papers and websites depend on reader feedback to figure out which comics you want to read. You can help Candorville out by writing to your local paper and asking them to add it (or thanking them for running it, if Candorville’s already on their comics page), or voting for it (and getting everyone you’ve ever heard of to vote for it) when your paper runs its comic polls.
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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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