comics – Carl Brandon Society

June 25, 2009May 21, 2015

Justice League of America fans who prefer tokenism

Dwayne McDuffie (co-founder and creator of Milestone media and the comics writer who co-created Static Shock and other black comic book heroes) points out some of the reader responses to his final issue of Justice League of America, featuring the JLA teaming with Icon and Hardware in battle with Starbreaker:

I don’t think anyone will support an original black “mainstream” character. I know I won’t.

Maybe they should establish a separate league for all the negro superheroes. I’m not saying kick them ALL off. One would be okay. (Doesn’t Hollywood have some kind of law that says every movie has to have at least one black in it?) I just think they’re going overboard with all this diversity stuff. I mean, how many comics do minorities read anyway?

May 7, 2009May 21, 2015

Whiter, brighter washing

From Greg Van Eekhout, via Twitter:

Sunspot then. And: Sunspot now.

I’m thinking that the two guys in the first pic had a kid. What do you think? -nalo

March 30, 2009May 21, 2015

Superman in the Cotton Fields: Comics in Black and White, Mostly White

Superman in the Cotton Fields is a 2005 article by Scott Poole on systemic racism in the comics industry.

A racist society is one in which significant political and social capital rests in white hands, even if that society gives lip service and official tribute to the ideals of ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’. At least in the marginal art form of comics, African American representations are changing.