I'm writing a multicultural comic book-I want to know what's your views on these ideas?

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I am writing a multicultural family/kids comic book about streetfighting cats and dogs. Is it bad to use certain breeds of cats and dogs to represent different races/cultures? They've been doing stuff like that in cartoons and comics for years. I don't see anything wrong with that as long as they aren't racist ethnic caricatures.

Is this a bad idea to put in a comic book?

I'm writing a comic book about street-fighting cats and dogs, and they live in cat-and-dog towns. I want to make rabbits criminal and hail from a town that's a rabbit version of Brooklyn, NY- Bucktown. (Get it? Bucktown is a nickname for BrookIyn, and male rabbits are called bucks). I got that idea from some old hip-hop songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP2mlvJkAPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRNBY4BvylU
I want to have some "black" gangster bunnies attacking the cat-and-dog towns and going to these towns and acting like "dirty rabbits."

Is this idea offensive? I'm black-I don't see anything wrong with it.

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[+3] - djjd62 - 02/17/2011and none of them are rabbits the only evil rabbit i know is white, and smokes [img]http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d2b63e28bc34f2a3c2e0aa9c24bd68dc?r=R&d=identicon&s=60[/img]

Yes, I see something wrong with making the criminal/bad boy gang villans all Black.
Can't you??

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@PUNKEY,

I didn't say they all the bad guys were going to be black.

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@JGoldman10,

JGoldman10 wrote:

I didn't say they all the bad guys were going to be black.

some of them could be italian Wink

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@djjd62,

Or Hispanic or Asian or Arab.

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@JGoldman10,

ecru?

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@Rockhead,

silly, there are no bad ecru people, jesus was ecru with blonde hair and blue eyes (kinda like a surfer in the pictures i've seen)

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@Rockhead,

Just like there's different nationalities of people, there's different cat and dogs breeds. Some countires have their own cat and dog breeds that originated there.
I want to use these breeds to represent different countires/nationalities/races/ethinciities.
The point I'm making is I'm not going to use certain cat and dog breeds and make them look like culturalistic stereotypes, like:

http://images.wikia.com/looneytunes/images/4/47/Speedy_Gonzales.jpg

http://stormstrike.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/scrooge_mcduck1.png

http://www-static.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/26/pepelep.gif

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@JGoldman10,

that's not a cat...

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@Rockhead,

and none of them are rabbits

the only evil rabbit i know is white, and smokes

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@djjd62,

please don't stand so close to me when you say that...

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@Rockhead,

They are ANIMALS and they are CULTURALISTIC stereotypes.

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@JGoldman10,

tell me about the french skunk, please...

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@JGoldman10,

I think whenever race and the possibilities of stereotypes are involved you are on thin ice. It's not that it can't be done, it's just difficult. No matter what you do someone will probably be offended just because that is how people are. People might see rabbits and think Brer Rabbit and Uncle Remis which leads to the tar baby...see? It's a slippery slope.

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I bet none of you remember M.C. Skat Kat:

http://www.guyspeak.com/paulamcskatkat-200.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Skatkat.jpg

An animated character who appeared with Paula Abdul in some videos. I don't consider him a culturalistic stereotype-he's more of a black caricature.

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@Green Witch,

Cats and dogs are the main ones. I'm not sure about the rabbits.

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@JGoldman10,

i'm proud to say i've never seen a paula abdul video

in fact i've never seen paula abdul on anything

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@JGoldman10,

I do remember it (yeah, I'm that old) , but I don't remember specifics as to how the character acted. Maybe instead of focusing on the "race" of your comic animals you can focus on their environmental conditions. Animals from the poor inner city will have certain traits as would an animal living in the luxury district. No race needs to be implied, just class.

I'm writing a multicultural comic book-I want to know what's your views on these ideas?

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