Well, it is not even like the white characters are well written. People say they need to have depth and a good backstory for every POC or strong woman or whatever, as if they actually do those white hetero males with depth and a well thought backstory.
To prove my point, most of the main characters are orphans (from mother, father, or both), this is not a good backstory, this is just the most cliche backstory of all time. Seriously, there is even a wikipedia list o-o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_orphans
And rich villains, as if being rich is the same thing as being evil.
It reminds me of Ubisoft trying to explain why they didn't make a playable female character for the new Assassin's Creed. x-x Seriously, they could get one of the guys, and say it is a buff woman. awesome, they would have a woman with an uncommon (for games) bodytype. Keep the backstory and the way they act. That works perfectly fine with pokemon games.
@hollyloveheart I have a friend that is a trans woman, she has one or two tumblrs blogs with comics about her life. And she also sent me another Tumblr blog with webcomics written about trans woman, by a transexual woman. I kind of wanted to make a comic about how entitled friends can be jerks x-x
But I don't know any comics about trans man...
End. has a trans woman character. I can't say much because spoilers, but I would like to have more reference for that matter.
@lira , your comic looks adorable <3 And so diverse, that is really awesome. I know the feels about fantasy universe. in End. the main characters are all dead (they are reapers), since death is just the most fair thing in the world, I thought it would be dumb if the judge people by the color of their skin, or people they choose to have sex with. Even though, I am redesigning characters that did not show up yet, because for now it still looks so white o-Ă” Hopefully, there are a looooot of characters to show up xDDD
Oh, the "because that's how the normal world looks", I agree, that's the reason stories with only gay characters annoy me as much as stories with only hetero characters, if I know so many non-hetero people, why aren't there more non-hetero people in the media? o-o And I also know hetero people, so yeah, they should be somewhere, but not only them, for gods sake o-Ăł I know a lot of not-white people... well, yeah, Brazil is ridiculously diverse, I see asians everywhere in my city, but in TV they are super rare, that's a shame!
- I would like to say I am truly happy for making this topic. It's been a long time I've been thinking about stories I read that had more representation. So it is really nice to see people caring about this, and making diverse comics. I think I subscribed to a lot of the comics linked here, and I am going to take a look soon =3