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    1. Adam Serwer  🍝‏Verified account @AdamSerwer 2 Sep 2020

      Even as a little kid goscinny and uderzo’s depictions of black people were jarringly racist, even so going back and reading Asterix again it’s still kinda shocking.

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    2. Alkali‏ @alkali19 2 Sep 2020
      Replying to @AdamSerwer

      I'm certainly not going to say they aren't racist — they are! — but to some extent the depictions may implicate specifically American racist tropes that wouldn't have been obvious to the French illustrators

      4 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    3. Adam Serwer  🍝‏Verified account @AdamSerwer 2 Sep 2020
      Replying to @alkali19

      I don’t know enough about the history of comics to say, (maybe @HeerJeet does) but the influence of racist southern caricatures seems really prominent to me and it’s hard to see it as unintended even if they did not think of themselves as acting maliciously.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Sep 2020
      Replying to @AdamSerwer @alkali19

      I've written a bit about this. The grotesque minstrel imagery was pervasive in USA comics during nadir of Civil Rights (1880-1950s). European & Japanese artist imitated that. In USA, groups like NAACP protested & got images changed starting in 1940s. Didn't happen in Europe.

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        1. Len Schiff, the Modern Warrior-Artist‏ @Golem_of_Queens 2 Sep 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @AdamSerwer @alkali19

          Which made the appearance of a Golliwog in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen all the more bizarre to me.

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        2. Ravi Swami‏ @oshunoxtra 10 Sep 2020
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          George Herriman was a mulatto so if there were “racist” stereotypes in “Krazy Kat” I doubt if they intended to be malicious.

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