The latest decade has seen comic books become diverse, but it hasn't come easy or as rapidly as fans would expect.
At the 2014 New York Comic Con session "#WeNeedDiverse (Comic) Books -- Diversity in Comics," the panelists comprising of Amie Wright, Craig Anderson, I.W. Gregorio and Mat Bird addressed the history, present and future of diversity, and the lack thereof, in comic books.
"I always feel that comic books have been a little bit progressive, in general," Anderson said. "That's not to say there haven't been more conservative comic books over the years, but I always feel that they kind of leaned a little more towards the progressive-liberal side."
According to Anderson, comic books were liberal because of the perspective from a journalism and humanities background who tend to be "sympathetic" toward progressive elements in society. Regardless of ideology, stereotypes were "rampant" with superheroes having a sidekick of "color" such as Ebony White and Whitewash Jones. The World War II era also introduced stereotypical Asian villains. READ MORE.
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