It’s unfortunate that these particular roller-bladers appear to be Asian, because I did not intend to make an “Asians have small penises” joke. If anything, I was making a “self-improvement freaks are compensating for something” joke. I think it would have been a funnier strip if people weren’t left wondering which way I was going with that gag.
It actually raises the issue of minority representation in clip art collections. I have noticed that happy white people are disproportionately represented among the hundreds of thousands of images in my commercially-bought collection. That works well for PartiallyClips, because it’s often upper middle class sensibilities that I am making fun of. But it might help my creative processes if I had either more miserable-looking white people or more happy-looking minorities to choose from. Well, I’m working with what I’ve got.
