A Black Comic
April 2026
QUESTIONS:
• How do I deal with whiteness as a truth, standard or norm?
• How do I deal with the representation of Blackness?
• How do I deal with black pain in all its forms?
KEYWORDS:
Deconstruction, Whiteness, Racism, Discrimination, Slavery, Blackness, Colonialism, Racial Discrimination, Colorist, Color Struck, One-Drop Rule, Alice Walker, Whitewashing, Acting White , Colorism, The Pencil Test and Brown PaperBag Test
THE ROOTS OF COLORISM, SKIN TONE DISCRIMINATION
Blackness is characterized by a high narrow skull, dark skin color, frizzy hair, flattened nose, lazy, stupid, ignorant, primal, obsessively self-indulgent, angry, physically strong, animalistic, and violent. Black bodies are descendant of Negro slaves imported from Afrika in the old days.
COMICS:
Within the topic of colorism I had to deal with the representation of black bodies and blackness. The comics I collected overtime help me to deal with one form of the representation of black bodies. These are the names of the comic books I used, Kijfje in Afrika (1947), Suske en Wiske - De Vliegende Aap (1948), Asterix - Cleopatra (1965), Jommeke - De verloren zoon (1965), Jommeke - Straffa toebaka (1975), De Kiekeboes - De Dorpstiran van Boeloe Boeloe (1977), - Jommeke - De Njam-Njambloem (1977), Jommeke - Prins Filiberke (1978), De Kiekeboes - De Zwarte Zonnekoning (1979), Blondie en Blinkie - De Blanke Neger (1984), Jommeke - De rib van Kalafar (1986), Suske en Wiske - Het grote gat (1996), Violetta 2 (2003), Asterix - De Papyrus (2015), Asterix - De Race door de Laars (2017) & Suske en Wiske - Mami wata 340 (2017)
The book was produced outside the white standard of printing. The pages were printed directly on black paper with a white carpet pad and full color prints on top. All pages were deconstructed into black bodies only in their original place on the pages. I encountered various forms of racism, including colorism. The more a person's skin color, hair type and appearance resembled a white person, the better. This created a skin color hierarchy that manifested in the form of discrimination based on criminal justice, business, the economy, housing, health care, media and politics.
