In my vampire comic, I have some Chinese and Romanian characters. In my Martian comic, I have aliens and characters from alternate Earth. In another one of my obscured comics, I have some French and 1 Spanish characters. In my old comics, I have some white and 1 black Americans.

I notice that the preference I chose for my characters' ethnicity is partly due to the fact that I had never traveled to America and Europe and their culture and arts fascinate me. What about the rest of you guys here?

Well technically most of my characters should be English since it takes place in an (alternate) England. Though I'm bad at remembering to include the occasional English...erm, slang. XP

Orlock would probably have a slight mix of accents because he's so damn old and has probably been a lot of places (think Highlander or something)...though he'd sound mainly English too.

My characters are ethnicity-less. I usually think of one of the families (the Veronas) as being of Italian descent. Aside from that, I don't really think in terms of ethnicity. I guess they are all pretty "American."

I have a multi-cultural comic (MAG-ISA). Since its set in N. America. And because I'm Filipino that is why the main character is Filipino.

Well, the characters that have been seen in my comic are either white American, Swedish, Cuban, Mexican, Canadian, or Brazilian. *Not counting the frist characters who was seen, the Eygptian.*

And thats just the ones that we've seen! @_@

Ethnicities in my 2 comics:
WASP, Western, Medieval, Irish, and lots of alien cultures.
In terms of phenotypes:
Blonde, brunette, redhead, Nordics, Alpines, Mediterraneans, Native American, supernatural, alien, cyborg.

In the end, I couldn't find a single African character that I would have liked to adapt... that's friggin' 80's animation for ya, all blonde-haired blue-eyed heroes. But I finally found one character who wasn't African but was so kickass he might as well be. So I turned him African.

!!!!!!

LOL no, I didn't take Jim Kelly.

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I want to use the term 'Negro', because that's how I learned it in my anthropology classes. But nowadays it's often considered a slur, unfortunately. It's like saying 'Caucasian' is a slur. I'm uncomfortable with the word 'Black.' It's so colloquial. Since I live in the US, in conversation I just say "African American."

The terms Nordic/Alpine/Mediterranean are no longer in use, except in historical anthropology, due to their racist connotations and inaccurate nature. Basically it means "Tall blonde white peeps," "shorter darker white peeps," and "Greek-looking peeps."

The main characters in my comic aren't human, but so far they've run across a king who's a white guy, a Hispanic couple who run a restaurant, and some more white guys cutting down trees in the distance. Oh yeah, and Dick Cheney and his helicopter pilot. So, mostly white people.

White, white, and more white. >_>
I was planning on making one of my main characters Latina- but then i realized her personality is catty, outspoken, likes flashy things,and she's kinda mean. So i felt if i made her Hispanic she'd be a horrible stereotype and piss off viewers ._.

Kate is of Irish descent. Amy and Will's mom is half chinese, half white and their dad is mixed parts Korean, Japanese, German, and "other". The most obviously non-white characters are half black, half gypsy. They were raised in a caravan traveling across Europe. Ella's sister is part hispanic and Sean is half english, half divine.

I don't really have characters with "pure ethnities, with the exceptions of Kate and Nick.

Cricket's supposed to be mixed ethnicity, it's been shown that her grandmother is black and her mother is supposed to be Chinese, (maybe it doesn't come across very clearly in a black and white comic,) Not much has been shown apart from that. Even though Vladimir Higgins has a Russian first name I imagine him as English, though he's probably descended from Russian immigrants. I imagine Ollie as Irish and Creature's an alien, (if that counts!) The rest I haven't thought all that much about. Basically I wanted practice drawing people that don't look like me, and I wanted to see how much I could get across without using color. Also having characters from multiple backgrounds sort of sets the mood for the "cultural melting pot" mentality of the early 20th century industrialized cities. It is supposed to be steampunk after all!

lol! "white" isn't an ethnicity...

The people in my comic come from all over the world, but the main guys are members of the "Crimean Empire". So they'd be Slavic/Russian/Eastern European, whatever. There are French, Americans, Italians, Tunisians, Libyans, and very likely British later on. And more.
Even among the Crimeans they're naturally mixed. People have Scandinavian, Greek, Arab, Indian heritage. And more :)

It's not too important, people are as mixed as they are in everyday life, or not, depending on the group and the place they come from (in the comic). Some people in more isolated areas and small villages will be less mixed.

I do alot of fantasy type characters, or monsters...so Im not sure about the ethnicity. I would say white with a hint of NEW YORKER........not a race you say? Have you LIVED in New York recently? They are their own race I tells ya.

Oh you asked one of my favorite questions:

Due East:
Doug Hu is mixed, Chinese and White/Anglo
Crystal Mills is African-American
Sapphira Hu is African-American, Chinese and White/Anglo
Brielle Mills is African-American, Chinese and White/Anglo
Carolyn Maye is Hispanic and White/Anglo
Deon Maye is Hispanic and White/Anglo
Nathan Maye is White/Anglo

Being set in post-war Britain (and being about traditional British character traits), all the main characters in Shades are white, Western Europeans.

For anyone who's interested enough look beneath the surface, however, the move towards a more "multi-culural" society is reflected in the fleeting glimpses we get of the relationships of Stan's daughter, Jill. Her son (Sunil) clearly had an Indian father, her first husband (Greg) is implicitly white and her new prospective husband (Yemi) is a black North African.

Sunil himself - the youngest character in the book (and therefore representative of the future) - is, by definition, of mixed race.

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I would say white with a hint of NEW YORKER........not a race you say? Have you LIVED in New York recently? They are their own race I tells ya.

New York is a separate country from the rest of the USA.

Good thinking ahead -- but you coulda made her mixed, too. Technically, you still could -- some grandmother, 2 times removed -- or something lol!

Skullbie
White, white, and more white. >_>
I was planning on making one of my main characters Latina- but then i realized her personality is catty, outspoken, likes flashy things,and she's kinda mean. So i felt if i made her Hispanic she'd be a horrible stereotype and piss off viewers ._.

I don't go out of my way to make Bulletproof multi-ethnic. Not all my characters are white, but it's never specifically been referred to that they aren't. I use it mostly as a way of having a certain amount of visual diversity more than anything else - Bulletproof is set in an imaginary place, and it's hard to fit real-world cultural friction problems into a setting that isn't a real place and thus has no "real" cultural basis.

Well none of my characters are from real countries....

My main character is from a small pious and rural village, Theres a lot of war and fighting so other characters are effected eiether by poverty or a monarchy. Most of them are from very very different countries. Some of them are different races/species/colors

my main character's ethnicity is. well. i'll say dogo argentino, maybe a little pit bull. hahaha.

i'm actually starting to work on a second comic project though, (sshhh, don't tell anybody! i can't just draw dogs all the time!) and the main character is mixed hispanic and east indian. it's not a story point at all, and won't be mentioned in the comic, either but i like to figure out these details about my characters so that they seem more tangible to me. :) then, i keep a little bank of them in my head.

We-ell... The main trio is Caucasian, I believe (it's hard to tell with Nico being a bit albino-ish and all), and while I do have people of differing skin-tone, there are several plot-related reasons as to why I can't give them a clear ethnicity.


All my other WIP comic-plots are set in fantasy worlds, so it's kind of hard to give the characters an ethnicity there, too. I can say "Oooh, this guy comes from a culture that is sort of Asian-influenced", but that's not the same thing as saying "Ooh, this guy is Chinese!", so...

BTRN is all over the place nationality-wise, and I owe this mostly to my near-obsessive fascination with everything that is a country. The main sextet (yes, haha, sex) are a Southern American, a Western American, an Irishman and his equally Irish sister, a Russian, and an Italian.

... I sat here for a while wondering if I should go through the entire cast list and just ramble off nationalities, but I feel like that would be boring >>; So I'll just ramble off countries, like Germany, England, France, Scotland, India, Japan (and she was totally Japanese like, three years before it was cool to be Japanese), South Korea, Colombia, and one girl is African-American.

Oh, and there's a Chinese ghost.

a majority of the cast of are of Japanese descent.
Yokai's love interest Mckinney is Irish American.
as to supporting characters there will be a variety just to make each character interesting. Culture for me is important to a characters design.

Wakon Yosai is set on another planet so they are fake ethnicities. Slugo, Adrian, and Catherine are Hederian which is mostly like a nordic culture but also appears to be somewhat asian. Aldrake and Delphine are Florian which is the closest thing to what we would thing of as white. Paga, Sylphie and Will's ethnicities have yet to be revealed and I ain't doin it here nwah :p! Then of course there are demon races of which two have been revealed Lilith and Chaimek are Sphinxes which as you would guess are winged creatures that are half man half lion. Then Snowy is a dragon also obvious.

BLNT is multi-racial. However, the community it takes place in (San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California) mirrors the demographic of that region for what is an upper-middle class area. You will see Asians, a great deal of Latinos, upper-middle class Caucasians/Non-White Hispanics (if you will), SEVERAL mixed races...and of course, Armenians (Persian-Armenians especially).

The cast:
-Teddy and Rayne are BLACK. Period. African-American? To quote many of you DD members..."meh". Complain if you want :). Rayne will eventually trace her family roots back to Ethiopia in her 7th Grade year. Cannot wait to draw that arc (See Seth).

-Desmond is also BLACK, however...his grandmother is also Belizean - On his father's side.

-Russell is Asian mixed (His father is Chinese, mother is Korean).

-Vanessa is Latin mixed (Her father is Cuban, mother is Mexican).

-Seth is of Jewish descent, however... (Interesting spoiler for the 7th Grade year - When Seth also traces his family roots, he discovers he too...is...black).

-Ethan was born in Hawaii. Does this make him HAWAIIAN? If not, his CAUCASIAN roots are French/English.

I don't really have "races", just species (fox, dog, wolf, giraffe, bear, etc.) Guess that's the downsides to a furry comic.

I have nationalities though, like how Raphael is Italian and how Andy is of Irish Decent.

I haven't really established ethnicity with my characters - at this point, I don't have any storylines where that particular aspect would be important. I had different heritages in mind when designing the characters, but again, I doubt that will ever come into play.

All the main girls in Rival Angels were born in America, except for Brooke who was born in Australia. All the girls have American citizenship.

Sabrina is italian. Krystin is African Amerian and Sun is Asian (Chinese, Japanese and Korean).

Most of my characters are southern Waspish, since my comic's set in Atlanta. However, I've included a good deal of nonwhite characters---both the VIsionary and Forethought are African-American (as is Ulysses Shore, an important supporting character), L.A. and Cassie are Asian-Americans, Man-Mountain is Chinese, and in my current storyline, I have intelligent animals--not "furries", I hasten to say, physical chimpanzees, elephants and parrots with their intelligence raised a dozen times, who are treated as persons, not property, at least in their own township.---Al

When writing my comic, I draw from death folklore found around the world. My main character Grey is British, her assistant Bella is French-Japanese, and their cohort Shoki is Chinese in origin (although he uses a Japanese name). In the future there are two more Americans, three Germans, one character of Middle Eastern ethnicity and other of African, and two more Japanese who will be introduced. Not to mention all the monsters that are in it.

It's a job keeping all the characters straight. (^^;;

Ohh I like this thread!

Actually most of my character's ethnicities are crucial to the development of the story. It also has to do with the fact that I was living in Japan working at a preschool that 3 characters are Japanese, one being a child who mostly speaks it. My main character Angela comes from Italy, Marissa is not sure of her own ethnicity and I'm hoping to introduce a Pakistani character later as one of the girl's friends at school since I don't see Muslim girls in comics very much I wanted to include one, especially since it all takes place in Toronto Canada :)