Roosevelt became president in 1933, if you’re curious (I had to look it up myself).
So, yeah, Bruno’s gram never played a huge role in the strip. The area I grew up in, and even the college I went to didn’t have a large amount of diversity, and I always felt weird writing characters of different races who spoke like the white middle/lower-class kids I grew up with. So, I made Bruno 25% black.
These days I am not afraid to write different races, and i don’t pretend to write dialects or cultures (although I put in a nod or two). I just try to write human beings, and let the skin color be only that.
But it’s a tough thing. I wanted to be good, but I wasn’t sure if it was better to write almost-no diversity, or to write diversity badly. I didn’t know, and still don’t. But I do my best.
*Thank you*
And this panel makes me want to hug everybody involved!
I just realized that Bruno’s Gram must have gotten married at a time when interracial marriage were rather frowned upon ?
Ayyyup, @Wood. I wanted Bruno’s gram to be fiesty, like her.
I’ve tried to submit this comment twice, let’s see if it works without the website…
She is Bruno’s maternal grandmother, right?
Yes, maternal. I may have only implied this (mom’s curly hair), or maybe stated in the later strips when she appears again.
My first wife was either half or 1/4 Native American. We don’t know which because her father passed away at an early age, and his family wouldn’t discuss his parentage. Even that recently, it was considered shameful to be “Indian” in his family.