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To be completely honest, I haven’t read the book at all, but from what I could dig up, he has brown fur and wears overalls, (I forgot to add his bow tie, oops).Related content
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Compare to his movie counterpart, Roger Rabbit seems uncertain about himself and nice job drawing him too.
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I think in the book the idea was also that the cartoons were a stand-off for the "minor" ethnicities in America, like black people? My memory is blurry, it may just be because brown Roger Rabbit looks a lot like a very popular chocolate powder mascott that is actually linked with a whole debate and case of discrimination and racism
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Yes, you are correct. The prejudice was much more prominent in the book.
I kept this in mind while designing him and integrated it into Roger’s character here. Which why he looks like he does.
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Found back the rabbit I was speaking about, "Quicky", the mascot of the chocolate powder brand "Nesquick". Of course the rabbit is brown like the chocolate, and sometimes actually dressed like a rap singer (even though nowadays he mostly wears sportive or normal yellow clothes). Of course it is to have a rabbit the color of chocolate, but there is also a slight racist theme behind it - because in France, chocolate brands used to have Black people as mascots, because of course a black people just HAD to do the chocolate. If you want a good example, search for the brand "Banania", it is remembered today as the one that had the most racist advertisement
But interestingly, Quicky never was associated with any racist scandal - probably because he is actually the result of a slight "scandal". Quicky became Nesquick mascot in the 90s, but before that the mascot of the brand was named "Groquik", it was a big giant fat yellow rabbit (well... it is supposed to be a rabbit but its design make it look like an alien or a weird mosnter). But this Groquik, which was a beloved figure of children and heavily present in advertisement, was completely get ridden off and replaced by Quicky, because Groquik being visibly fat/overweight, it gave the impression that Nesquick made children fat, or that the brand was encouraging a slothful and fattening lifestyle.
So he was replaced by a thin, active, fast-talking and sportive rabbit - Quicky (hence the name), its complete opposite
(In fact, in a web series that is extremely popular in France, called "Les Kassos" that mercilessly parodies figures from childhood cartoons and television programs, we see Groquick talking about his replacement and turning out to actually be racist and unable to stand that he was replaced by a BLACK/BROWN rabbit above all)
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And to add to this, some pictures of Quicky:
logonews.fr/wp-content/uploads…
www.artribune.com/wp-content/u…
www.cuniculture.info/Docs/Phot…
And just for the fun and the cultural trivia, pictures of Groquick (the pun being on the word "gros" which in French means "big, fat", and as a result his name unfortunately translated as "fat-fast")
jaimepaslespubs.files.wordpres…
p7.storage.canalblog.com/75/92…
i65.servimg.com/u/f65/11/55/74…
i.pinimg.com/originals/71/92/9…
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