http://classic.tcj.com/blog/the-two-sides-of-ebony-white/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-two-sides-of-ebony-white The Comics Journal is a magazine that covers the comics medium from an arts-first perspective. Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:56:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://classic.tcj.com/blog/the-two-sides-of-ebony-white/comment-page-1/#comment-2323 patford Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:53:30 +0000 http://www.tcj.com/?p=29895#comment-2323 This topic has always struck me as a simple one. The visual look of Ebony is the typical racist stereotype of the time. The other side is that Ebony is portrayed by Eisner is an admirable character. He's intelligent, often the most clear thinking person in the strip. He's very hard working, motivated, and trustworthy. He's also independent, he doesn't come across as simpering. My feeling is Eisner just adopted the common cartoon shorthand of the era, and had no racist intent in doing so. This topic has always struck me as a simple one.
The visual look of Ebony is the typical racist stereotype of the time.
The other side is that Ebony is portrayed by Eisner is an admirable character. He’s intelligent, often the most clear thinking person in the strip. He’s very hard working, motivated, and trustworthy. He’s also independent, he doesn’t come across as simpering.
My feeling is Eisner just adopted the common cartoon shorthand of the era, and had no racist intent in doing so.

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