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Comics and Complication:  Racial Stereotypes and  Golden Legacy Comics
Still, there is a darker past in comics when it comes to the depiction of marginalized ethnicities, races, racial stereotypes, genders, and lower socio-economic individuals. This cartoon, appearing April 8, 1848, was drawn by John Leech. The Irish have long been depicted as ape-like brutes in English comics, with these images being infamously denoted as "the Irish[...]