Snoopy Swings Into Action<\/strong><\/a>, a 1992 British collection of Sunday strips from 1988?<\/p>\nI’ll give you some time to think about this.<\/p>\n
Scrape your memory. Consider it carefully.<\/p>\n
You got it? If so, you’re probably taking a second look at that panel. Yes, that’s the same fellow generally seated in front of Peppermint Patty. It’s the one and only Franklin, specifically identified as such in the strip.<\/p>\n
By this period, Schulz wasn’t doing much hand-shading to indicate Franklin’s skin tone. For daily strips, a patterned tone was added to darken him, and in the Sunday strips, it was left up to the coloring. Now, coloring dark skin can be difficult; I was once involved in a racially diverse comic book line where they actually developed new coloring techniques in order to capture a range of skin tones. I’m now reading some discussions about African-American strip characters whose skin coloration has lightened over the years, with commentators wondering whether its a purposeful attempt to make the characters more acceptable to the audience, or whether there were legitimate reproduction and clarity problems with the original tones.<\/p>\n
Even before I hit this strip, I was strongly suspecting that the coloring of the strips in this book did not match the original newspaper coloring. But the question remains: was whoever colored this strip simply unaware of Franklin’s traditional coloration? Or was it a purposeful decision to whiten up his identity? Danged if I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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