Comment by lexicality
6 days ago
He drew caricatures that would be easy for 1930s children to identify. There are very few depictions of non-white characters in the books that aren't in same way questionable.
It's unfortunate, but a lot of literature of the time needs to be read with the general ambient racism that was sloshing around in mind.
This is true. I have a couple of DVDs of old Tom and Jerry cartoons.
There's no way those cartoons would be released, today.
Come to think of it, Asterix wasn't really any better[0]. There just weren't so many black people to show.
[0] https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/asterix/images/b/ba/The_ma...
It’s a caricature. Nobody has those big noses, either.