The KKK= The Comics Industry-The Last Great White Supremist Institution?

[BedStuy]

Black: A Graphic Novel That Asks, What If Only Black People Got Superpowers?

 

[The Lonious Monk]

This is a pretty extreme reach. Marvel is running a team right now that is like 6 deep and only has one white character and are putting a lot of minority characters in the spotlight now. Not to mention that historically, comics were on the cutting edge when it came to take up Civil Rights issues. Both Marvel and DC had stories addressing the issues.

You can't call something a white supremacist institution because it doesn't employ as many black people as you want it too. Both Marvel and DC have black employees. Maybe there aren't a lot, but is the number outside of expectation given demographics? Remember blacks only make up 13% of the American population. Also, how many Blacks are actually applying for those positions? You might want to have some of those numbers available before you push the idea that basically a whole industry is racist.

 

[genocidecutter]

Speaking of which are there any well known black comic book artists?

 

[SneakDZA]

isn't there a black spiderman and iron man? isn't the black panther movie about to come out with a 90% black cast? we just had luke cage on netflix.

i dunno man, this thread might be a reach in suggesting that the comics industry is somehow more racist than anything else in this country.

also superman kicked the kkk's ass in like the 40's or 50's.

 

[nujerz84]

Comics has always been a reflection of the times its why you have some stories of popular characters way back in the day that would never fly today. At same time you got folks who feel comics are way to liberal so you will never please everyone.

For example Chuck Dixon, Frank Miller are conservative republicans..but reading their comics you could easily think they are leftist.

For some reason unlike other mediums (music, movies, tv shows, sports, plays, novels) the level of minority support for minority characters and/or minority comic book writers and artist isn't as high as opposed to those outlets. Aaron Mcgruder and Milestone Comics (Icon, Static, Hardware etc) being some exceptions, but even they eventually fell off.

Marvel is having some of its worst comic sales in decades..and its on the heels of trying to push diverse characters, this came out of a Marvel sales executive mouth at this week comic book retail meeting.

Is it race related perhaps, but changing characters ala making New Iron Man a young black girl, Captain Marvel a female Muslim American, Thor a female, just didnt connect with fans..Captain America now a hydra agent, or cancelling Marvel titles after 6 issues doesnt help either.

DC went through it with New 52..Rebirth has killed the sales charts since it started (despite being a continuation of New 52) simply by sticking to the basics of what made the characters popular in the first place.