Nobody · 9mo
Hi, i just wanted to share a quick concern - I'm sure it wasn't intentional, since it can absolutely just be an issue difficult to notice with screen color settings when drawing, but the art of the Argo II crew by Neneneems depicts Frank's skin tone as extremely yellow, especially compared to the rest of the characters, and Annabeth and Hazel's lips as extremely pale in contrast to their skin tones, which makes all three of them look uncomfortably close to racist caricatures. Again, I'm sure it wasn't intentional and was probably just a screen color setting error (happens to the best of us! my old monitor had awful color settings) but you might want to fix that before sending it off for printing.
Also I don't know if the product for that is supposed to be all of them together as one item or a set, but in the promo image Frank is overlapping Jason when it seems based on the cut-off of his arm that you'd want Jason to overlap Frank there to help hide that. Just in case that was an error.
Thank you so much! Our art mod is taking a look at their color settings & will be adjusting the files before anything prints (we'll also be running a test print to make sure they come out right!) This has also helped us realize that Percy is a bit yellowed out, which we'll fix as well.
In the meantime, we appreciate your diligence & would hate to perpetuate any racist stereotypes. Thank you!!
We also wanted to clarify that we don't have any product with these 9 characters — that was just decoration for our POs open post. But we will be using them in our book for the superlatives page so thanks for helping us make sure this comes out right! Mod Neems & our mod team sincerely apologize if these illustrations offended any viewers of color.
