Good conversation in response to this tweet about how American minstrel imagery had a long after-life in French comics (decades after such imagery had ceased to be pervasive in American cartooning. I had the same experience as Adam of being shocked as kid by this stuff.https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1301176652496502791 …
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Anyways here's an old piece I did on minstrel imagery which touches on how it migrated around the world. Irony is that in USA it met with strong opposition from Black social movements & started disappearing in 1940s. In Europe & Japan it persisted http://www.tcj.com/racism-as-a-stylistic-choice-and-other-notes/ …
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that's so cool - I loved all those comics as a kid. We had European relatives and so got Asterix & Lucky Luke. Also Tintin, but I guess he doesn't fall in this group.
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Great photo! Morris had already created Lucky Luke by this point (in 1946).
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Ah, for some reason I had late 1950s in my head for Luke.
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