I have no problem with caricatures accentuating features, of course that is their thing. Maybe they are not a million miles away but for me they don't cross a line.
I don't think I was alone in my reaction when I saw the Herald Sun cartoon. I immediately thought of those Sambo style cartoons...
There are a few in this article.
https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/culture/article/2018/09/12/artists-share-alternative-takes-racist-serena-williams-cartoon
and of course here...
I would say it is not. Which is evidence to show that there are different way to caricature a black person. Some evoke the 'sambo' style cartoons of yesteryear and ones like this don't. The questions to me remain: Why did he choose this particular style of caricature? and Why did he choose to...
There are many different ways to draw a caricature of Serena and the artist chose this one. He claims that he has no knowledge of the 'Sambo' style cartoons his work echoes. I find this very difficult to believe, being that he is a cartoonist and it is clearly his area.
This incident was a...
I find it hard to believe that the cartoonist didn't look at his finished work and see a piece that harks back to the 'sambo' depictions of black people. What amazes me is that he didn't think that it might be an idea to make some adjustments to his work.
Perhaps he did? Perhaps he decided to...