"Mirth"-filled Protest by African American Cartoonists

Speaking of white privilege, I'm following the conversation over at Daily Cartoonist regarding a plan by several syndicated African American cartoonists (including Cartoonists With Attitude member Keith Knight) to publish a similar cartoon on the same day. The idea is to make fun of the habit of newspaper editors to lump all comic strips created by black cartoonists as "black strips" regardless of the actual content of the strip. For some strange reason, the Daily Cartoonist has called it a "sit-in" which tends to distort (unintentionally) the purpose of the protest. As Cory Thomas puts it, "I think 'sit-in' is making this seem a lot more militant and mirthless than it actually is."

BTW - Until now I had not heard of Cory Thomas. His "Watch Your Head" is incredibly well drawn and pretty amusing. So, yay, new discovery for me!

Without disputing the concerns of the protest, I should add that the chances of new material by cartoonists of all stripes would be greatly enhanced were newspaper editors not so beholden to zombie strips like, oh, I dunno, Blondie?