Clockwork Comics Ends
- Posted by Johanna on March 5, 2009 at 7:53 am
- Category: Webcomics
Clockwork Comics, Jane Irwin’s historical strip about the Mechanical Turk chess-playing robot, will be ending due to authorial concerns over racial stereotypes.
I’m very disappointed to hear that news. I enjoyed reading the strip, and I was very much looking forward to the hoped-for collection. I won’t criticize Jane for doing what she thinks is right, but I don’t see the problem with portraying historical attitudes.
March 6, 2009 at 10:16 am
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