Hard to believe, but this Dennis the Menace strip ran all over the world in 1970. Yet again, NO ONE in the entire process spoke up to suggest this might be a racist depiction of a black person?” Following outraged responses, the strip’s creator Hank Ketcham apologized that the strip was a product of his own naivete, not racism. Had the man never met a black person in his life? Crazily enough, according to Ketcham (according to the authoritative source “Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace” (Fantagraphics Books) “I named him ‘Jackson’ and designed him in the tradition of Little Black Sambo, with huge lips, big white eyes, and just a suggestion of an afro.” YEESH!
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