S.M. Park

Steve Park lives in Portland, Oregon. He can be reached through his company, Park Art, at (503) 236 0470. Use the BACK button on your browser to return to your previous page.

His Comment

"The explanation for the censorship of my comic—as related to me in a phone call I received from retired professor Sid White, who put together both the exhibit and the book—is that minority staff members felt my work was racist because:

1. In the final panel my cartoon of the Mexican attorney and portrayal of Tijuana as a dump degraded Chicanos;
2. In the "Student Body" panel I didn't color the lips of the black students, thereby making them look like "Sambos"; and
3. In another group drawing, I colored the lips of the black female student but stationed her too close to a monkey.

I could write volumes on how absurd, unfounded, and unfair these charges are—how, in fact, the very cowardliness of them has hurt me deeply—but I'd be the last guy to tell a minority that his or her pain isn't real.

Suffice to say that we live in very pathetic times."

S.M. Park

Steve Park lives in Portland, Oregon. He can be reached through his company, Park Art, at (503) 236 0470. Use the BACK button on your browser to return to your previous page.