Oddly enough, in newspapers that run comic strips in old-fashioned black and white (like the Boston Herald) Franklin is white. That’s because in the original strip Schulz used diagonal lines to represent skin color, but today those lines have been eliminated in favor of an actual color. Unless it’s in black and white, in which case Franklin’s skin color is the same as all the other kid’s.
Why isn’t this the strip that actually ran in the newspapers? And why did the strip that actually ran say cats don’t have pockets when G had a pocket just this Sunday?
Having pockets on Sunday and not having pockets on Tuesday makes me wonder if Davis has two “teams” working on weekday and Sunday strips…that don’t talk to each other.
Oddly enough, in newspapers that run comic strips in old-fashioned black and white (like the Boston Herald) Franklin is white. That’s because in the original strip Schulz used diagonal lines to represent skin color, but today those lines have been eliminated in favor of an actual color. Unless it’s in black and white, in which case Franklin’s skin color is the same as all the other kid’s.