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There are many ways to draw people, and Uderzo had theirs. Asterix is short, has a big nose and promotes drugs abuse, Obelix is dumb and will hurt the feelings of fat people, he eats wild boars and vegan children could feel unconfortable or pick up dangerous ideas reading this comics. Ideafix chase cats in a flagrant case of animal cruelty...

Is just a parody. Please calm yourself.

I'm really tired of this dark soup of neopuritanism, SJW and porcelain people. By the way, who are you to tell me how I must to draw an human figure?. Has returned Maoism or Degenerate art? Do you know what other artists create images depicting black people with big lips and different types of hair ornaments? All african artists.

If you don't like the comics, just don't read it. The solution is really simple.



Does a racist caricature exist? Does racism itself exist? If it does, what does it look like?

If you don't think the pickaninny or the mammy are racist, I have no idea what you think racism looks like.

The pickaninny and the mammy were part of minstrel shows and lots of other pernicious hurtful portrayals. Nobody has ever complained about the other characters in Astérix because there is no history of black people systematically enslaving whites and then making ridiculous shows and cartoons about the enslaved whites. Of course white people aren't offended by how white people draw themselves.

Uderzo didn't even invent the style in which he drew black people. He's just copying the same racist caricatures that existed long before he did.


I'm sorry for what you have been through, are still going through and all that.

I spent some years homeless and I post as openly female on HN, which at least historically was overwhelmingly male.

I do my best to educate people here (about homelessness, being a woman online, etc) and I try to keep it as conversational as possible. People who want to be good and want to see themselves as good don't react well to being attacked and accused. It tends to close minds and, with it, doors.

I'm not trying to attack you nor criticize you. I'm hoping to empower you with a better methodology.

Long experience tells me you probably won't see it that way. I don't plan to argue with you about the choice I've made to comment here.

Here's wishing you fair winds for your journey going forward.


> Does a racist caricature exist? Yes

> Does racism itself exist? Yes

> What does it look like?

Stupid, unfunny, monochromatic and afraid to normalize the appearance of interracial couples, or to show black, jew, indian, or hispane characters in positive roles, or to depict different cultures and religions living together.

Therefore, totally the opposite to this comics.

If comics for you, mean only US schools and Steamboat Willy cartoons, then this is just a tunnel vision problem. Can be treated by exposition to different schools of cartoonists. In Europe there are some really big: Uderzo and collaborators, Hergé (Questionable first history, corrected later), Franquin, Peyo or Ibañez among other. Ibañez is undoubtely the wildest one; If you think Asterix it's politically incorrect you're going to freak out with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERFdmt6NOGw

And yes, is for kids.


I'm not sure what you're trying to freak me out with in that video. Cartoon violence? That's pretty innocuous and not at all what I'm talking about.

Do you know about minstrel shows?

Si quieres continuar esta conversación podemos proseguir por correo: jordigh@octave.org

Creo que también estarás más cómodo en español.




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