Angela, you said you didn’t know what I meant by “crackers”. That link told you. I’m trying to figure out if you’re trying to pretend you don’t know anything just to be obtuse or whether you do in fact know nothing.

Some of your stuff, like:
“Hence the need for Candorville, Watch Your Head, etc. which are strips by real, live breathing ethnic minorities.”
is first rate comedy. Unless it’s meant seriously, in which case it’s tragedy.

http://jennyspouse.com/September2007.html

http://www.rabbitandbearpaws.com/aboutus.php

We need to get them syndicated and into North Dakota, quick. ;-)

We have all these legacy strips that take up lots of real estate on newsaper pages. Because of this, it’s more difficult for the comic pages to keep up with the culture.

So what syndicates could do is, next time these strips have an opening for a new cartoonist, they could give it to a woman or ethnic minority. This would naturally update the point of view and voice of the characters.

No one seems to be coming up with positive alternatives. Seems there’s a lot of complaining. There needs to be a vision of the right way to do it, for the old way to transition to it. I’ve only dealt with one or two editors before, so those of you that have all the experience with them, how should they decide? What should they do differently to be truly deliver the best possible product to their reader base and fair to cartoonists?

Actually, I don’t think that was Malcom’s logic at all. He’s off ranting about crackers or something and posting senseless links. (LOL)

There are several Native-American strips by Native-American cartoonists. You just don’t know about them and they haven’t been picked up for national syndication. Yet.

Your posting of the 1919 Bud Fisher strip is extremely cool. Thanks so much for sharing it. I guess it proves the more things change the more they stay the same even 89 years later.