Roundup: Cartoonists of Color Sit-In
The Daily Cartoonist has a great roundup of yesterday’s Cartoonists of Color Sit-In, with links to participating strips and mainstream coverage of the event, as well as some interesting statistics related to the issues at the heart of the sit-in.
In case you missed our mention of the Cartoonists of Color Sit-In a while back, the event was organized as a protest of what participating cartoonists perceive as limits newspapers set on the number of comic strips with primarily non-white casts of characters. Each of the participating cartoonists used the same script for the day’s comic, written by Watch Your Head creator Cory Thomas.
Among other coverage of the event, Thomas appeared on lastnight’s CBS Evening News to discuss the event (links provided in Daily Cartoonist article).
Did it seem odd to you that they decided to show how diverse minority-created strips can be by running the exact same joke in all of them?
Well, yes, but it's like, all FIFTEEN of them. I'll bet there are few papers that carry more than two or three, if that many.There's a kid here in Norwalk who's one of the fifteen. Got a nice front page story about him in the local paper on Sunday. Sadly, his was the only strip in the section so the point was kind of lost. Such as it was.