{"id":551,"date":"2009-09-01T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/09\/black-history\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T15:14:00","slug":"black-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Black History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another urgent <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/funny-answers-to-stupid-questions.html\">cultural-history question<\/a> for you: Does anyone out there know who was the first cartoonist to depict a scene taking place in darkness via a completely black panel?<\/p>\n<p>I ask because without quite outright stating it, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Farr\">Michael Farr<\/a>, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/30974\/biblio\/9780867199017 \">Tintin: The Complete Companion<\/a>, strongly implies that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tintin.com\/index.html#aventures\/herge\/herge.swf&#038;lang=uk\/&#038;mc=_root.ban7\">Herg\u00e9<\/a> originated the technique in his first Tintin adventure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/30974\/biblio\/9780316003742 \">Tintin in the Land of the Soviets<\/a>. (Interestingly, Farr theorizes that Herg\u00e9 may have intended the panel as an homage to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kazimir_Malevich\">Malevich<\/a>&#8216;s famous <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Black Square<\/span>, seen below.)<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/Sp08M3xZAxI\/AAAAAAAAAws\/-PTGd3dqO70\/s1600-h\/malevich_black_square_rm.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 399px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/Sp08M3xZAxI\/AAAAAAAAAws\/-PTGd3dqO70\/s400\/malevich_black_square_rm.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376519721977447186\" \/><\/a><br \/>Does anyone know if Farr&#8217;s right? Is it possible that no one had employed the technique earlier than Herg\u00e9 did in 1929\/1930? The Looney Tunes film series didn&#8217;t get started until 1930, so Daffy Duck didn&#8217;t get there first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the answer, but whoever did it first was a genius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another urgent cultural-history question for you: Does anyone out there know who was the first cartoonist to depict a scene taking place in darkness via a completely black panel? I ask because without quite outright stating it, Michael Farr, in Tintin: The Complete Companion, strongly implies that Herg\u00e9 originated the technique in his first Tintin adventure, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. (Interestingly, Farr theorizes that Herg\u00e9 may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[271,306,562,819,837,1330],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics-vs-art","tag-darkness","tag-herge","tag-m-farr","tag-malevich","tag-trivia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}