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The 'Cartoonists of Color' Protest


The Washington Post recently ran a story on a group of syndicated cartoonists who planned a protest for today. They targeted newspaper editors who choose not to syndicate one strip created by or featuring minorities because they're already publishing another strip -- often just one strip that meets that "diversity demand." The cartoonists drew strips with similar plot lines -- all of which involve an older, white character lamenting the appearance of "politically correct" minority-drawn strips on the comics page.

Welcome to Lucky + Guy


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Lucky + Guy is a webcomic consisting of a bunch of manga-looking, indie rock-listening, video game-playing liberal arts college students and post-college ronin talking smack about politics. I've been drawing it since 1998 when it was originally relegated to the back page of my middle school newspaper, then took it with me to high school, college, and beyond.

The top tier characters are Lucky and Guy.

On the lower tier, clockwise from the top: Chief Drowning Fish, Waylor, Laputa Lilywhite, Cerveaux, Hatz, Sylvia, Josiah Southdakota, and Mayinca.