Talk:Portrayal of black people in comics

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Good initial entry![edit]

Hi, Maple Leaf — always glad to help. Overall, I think you did a very solid job that mostly avoided POV and contained good footnoting. Bravo!

I made a quick and by no means comprehensive pass. Most of my edits were technical in nature: Footnotes ref-tags have no spaces before them; image captions don't have forced line breaks; individual years aren't wikilinked; numerical decades don't have apostrophe-s — boring stuff like that. I also broke up some long paragraphs; streamlined some sentences; and for topics that have their own articles, such as Dell Comics' Lobo, all we need to do is give a basic paragraph or so to identify them, and use the "main article" template.

I removed one or two sentences of claims not supported by footnotes, which seems like original-research conclusions / POV, but really, not much. I excised a reference to sidekicks since one of the examples was the Black Panther being in the Avengers; that's not being a sidekick, but a team-member.

And again, these are small, mostly technical things. In my humble opinion, this is a very, very solid start. Congrats. --Tenebrae (talk) 03:44, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Comic strips[edit]

This article either should include comic strips, or a separate article devoted to African-American comic-strip characters should be created. What do other editors say? --Tenebrae (talk) 18:08, 15 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Or create a separate article for newspaper comics. Sajita (talk) 18:41, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. What about Friday Foster (1970-1974), first african american female title character? ( --donguijote 00:04, 16 ago 2019)

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Merge form African characters in comics[edit]

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To not merge, given that the topics are distinct. Klbrain (talk) 19:27, 2 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The topics seem very similar, with this being a bit broader. No need to split this. The list at African characters in comics doesn't meet MOS:POPCULT, and if we discount this, the prose size is quite mergeable. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 16:26, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, definitely a good merger. Perhaps the "Listed by company", "Small Press: Comic Book", "Small Press: Graphic Novel", "Webcomics" and "Other media" sections could be merged into List of black superheroes, at least partially? Any other characters could be added to List of black animated characters which I've been trying to update more as of late. Historyday01 (talk) 18:17, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. There are non-Black people native to Africa (such as Arabs), and there are Black people that are not from Africa. Libcub (talk) 00:02, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

NO. Being Black and being African are NOT automatically the same. Being classified as black means recent ancestry from dark-skinned Sub-Saharan Africans. Many African populations are not dark-skinned and thus not considered Black. The groups that make up the Black African diaspora greatly differ from each other and from Africans and, though having the same origin, do not consider themselves the same. 1encyclopediaphile (talk) 05:47, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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