2011-06-28 by shaenon on June 28, 2011 at 12:01 am Chapter: If I Ran the Zoo Want the original art for this strip?
He’s black?
Who are “king and malcolm x”? … And is “Tip” using the term “black” in the sense that Japanese folk do… i.e. clothing colouration?
Your google fu is weak. Two US black civil rights advocates from the 60s, one pacifist, one militant.
No one in the US uses “black” that way. Note that his skin has been consistently shaded around the edges, like half of Unity.
I was actually confused by this. The only character’s I’d realized where black were half of Unity and Tigerlily, both from being portrayed in color. Was the mortician from New Orleans also black?
Yep, as eventually shown here:
https://skin-horse.com/comic/thanks-to/
The first appearance of Artie in colour was here, back in Narbonic:
http://narbonic.com/comic/guest-art-with-artie-and-mongor/
Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, the American civil rights leaders. And no, Artie is actually black…