Comic Strip's Black Face Image Sparks Discussion of Appropriateness

This Chris Muir cartoon's depiction of Hillary Clinton in blackface, a commentary on the presidential candidate's attempts to reach a black audience through things like inflections of voice during speeches that has been criticized by a wide variety of pundits. Here's one such article. Dirk Deppey at Journalista! has a veritable cowboy-style blogger drive today rounding up various emerging takes and opinions on the story (scroll down to Digital Media).

I think there are two thing worth noting about the issue. One is that this will be compared to a previous incident where a blogger put black face on a photo of Joseph Lieberman, which should make for some compelling distinctions between photos and cartoons and intent of satire. The other is I don't know Chris Muir or his basic set-up and situation, but I believe Day by Day is self-syndicated and gets most of his traffic on-line, where it's a well-respected veteran of the webcomics world. If that's the case, this might be the first time when a comic ended up in a story like this one without the traditional avenue for complaints through a newspaper and its advertisers or fear of losing clients through such a complaint. Okay, I admit that may only be interesting to me.
 
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