comic

Ricky Woodie
Ethics
Blog post
October 28, 2007

Comic Post

When I looked at these comics, they all had a similar theme, which was that the Americans were the good guys and the Japanese were the villains. The comic I looked at was called the Fighting Yank. In this comic the theme was the same thing.
First of all you can tell its America versus Japan because in the title, the word Yank is short for Yankee. Yankee is a name for Americans. Also, the bad guys in the comic had the Japanese flag on their arms to symbolize that they were Japanese. This comic shows the Japanese as villains because it has them taking a women hostage and all trying to kill the “Yank”. The comic shows the stereotype for Japanese it gives them squinty eyes, big teeth, small bodies, and dark skin. The cover shows the American as invincible. He is big and strong and has bullets bounce off of him. He also is able to fight off a group of the bad guys by himself. He doesn’t even need weapons to beat the Japanese where they had to use guns and knives. The comic shows the Japanese as bad and have them act like savages and it portrays the American as a hero who saves the day.
In my opinion this comic is racist. It puts negative images in readers’ heads about Japanese. It is kind of like during the cold war how they always made the Russians bad guys in movies. An example of this would be Rocky.