Ethical Considerations
Nearly every John Persons comic includes a sequence devoid of dialogue where the couple simply walks through public spaces. We see the panels shift perspective to the eyes of passersby: the gasp from an elderly woman, the double-take from a cop, the leer from a teenager. Persons forces the reader to feel the weight of visibility. In his 2011 classic "Invisible Ties," a black woman and a Japanese man navigate a grocery store in a predominantly white suburb. No words are spoken for five pages, yet the reader feels every judgmental stare like a physical blow. john persons interracial comics
He did not write propaganda. He wrote humanity. And in a genre often defined by the clash of fists (Superman vs. Batman, X-Men vs. Sentinels), Persons insisted on the quiet revolution of the clasped hand. In his 2011 classic "Invisible Ties," a black