Drawing Obama And Using Blue Lips

I'm grateful to Daryl Cagle for talking about a cartoon from Patrick Corrigan at the Toronto Star being killed because the editor felt that drawing the president with blue lips is a racial stereotype. Unfortunately, this just leaves me more baffled than intellectually sated because I can't find 1) anything that indicates blue lips has ever been a racial stereotype, 2) any reason why you'd draw the president with blue lips. Two explanations asserted, that cartoonists in Canada draw everyone with blue lips and that blue lips are a sign the President has been sneaking smokes, aren't very compelling and compete in a way that makes the whole thing seem weird. I think everyone should just stop drawing President Obama this way and we should pretend it never happened.
 
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