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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 556
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 01:35 pm: | 
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http://www.gettosake.com/
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Rashena
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Username: Rashena
Post Number: 28
Registered: 08-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 05:48 pm: |
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Wow, that's hot! I have a friend that is a great artist, we did a comic strip in The Source last year, and he has done a lot of the art on the set of Rap City. He's also done a cover for one of the Urban Books family! I'll pass this along to him. Thanks! |
Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 691
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 09:19 pm: |
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hmmmm....thats nice....it reminds me of stuff i used to do in my teens! |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 564
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 11:09 am: |
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Yeah it is nice and I'm passing it along because they seem like some brothers who are really trying but I wonder about the viability of black comics.
Black characters as a whole have not been very successful in mainstream comics unless they are part of a mostly white ensemble. Particularly black superheroes.
There have been a number of attempts to start up whole lines of comics featuring black or multcultural characters. They have largely failed.
I think it is because the audience for this kind of entertainment is mostly white. Most mainstream comic book fans--by that I mean fans of superhero or adventure or crime comics--tend to be young males between 10-14. There has reportedly emerged a strong market of adult males in their 20' and 30's but I don't see it.
At any rate most of them are white. They just have not gone for black characters (some of it is I believe due to the fact that this is escapist literature, the readers get a certain amount of vicarious participation, and they just cannot see themselves as black--for this reason comic books featuring female superheroes have not done well. Girls do not read them and the young boys do not imagine themselves Wonderwomen, and the erotica is not on a par with what you can find on the net, in skin magazines, or in movies, tv, etc even.
I mean, I can see myself maybe checking out an issue or two to see what they are doing, or passing along some to younger relatives, but I cannot see myself collecting issues, etc.
I think it is the problem that faces all artists and purveyors of intellectual or artistic entertainment--who is the audience? What do they want?
Another thing, comic books were largely a working class, poorer class entertainment. Instead of seeing them in the corner store, now they are in suburban shops. They have moved away from their audience. |
Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 698
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 12:26 pm: |
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i'm sure those comic heads...love them regardless of their socalled "race." But you're right! |
A_womon
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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 650
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 - 03:22 pm: |
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hmmmmmmmmm..... |
Ssmoothe2003
First Time Poster
Username: Ssmoothe2003
Post Number: 1
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 03, 2004 - 06:38 pm: |
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Oh, thanks so much A_womon...there will be more to come very soon.
peace
Silky Smoothe |
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