As the black man in the white neighborhood got out of his expensive car, the cop slapped on the cuffs and held him, face down, at gunpoint. A frightened black man in the white neighborhood thrown ...

French cartoonist Yvan Alagbé uses a stark black and white palette to investigate the ways Western comics portray race — and the ways his country treats (and mistreats) its immigrant population.

When we brought it up to graphic-design guru Debbie Millman, she said, “I think this comes from a combination of the skin-color contrast, the mustache, the eyebrows, and the eyes.

White hasn’t commented on this supposed confrontation. He has been known to do a little scrapping, getting in a well-publicized fight with the singer of the Von Bondies in 2004 and carrying on a ...