Why isn't Fang's Picture Black?

Okay so I've been wondering why people draw Fang pictures and make him ghost white? Or why his profile picture is also white when James Patterson clearly wrote more than once that he has dark skin! In the manga and on the book covers! Probably in the movie too! Anyway it just bugs me when people say he's emo and pale white and all that other stuff. He has olive skin and he's quiet; his life spent in a cage made him careful what he says, ga! This just gets me worked up sometimes.
Oh, how I miss the old website where Fang was just Fang...

Tags: black, fang, olive, white

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Permalink Reply by Squight on November 3, 2009 at 4:35pm: Fang's described as "olive-skinned." He's not black.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gateway on November 3, 2009 at 5:28pm: Second.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ann Sultan on November 3, 2009 at 6:03pm: I am with you, even in the movie he is going to get up being white, they all are going to end up being white except Nudge.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by jo jo pederson on November 3, 2009 at 6:21pm: i liked the old webiste too. they actually posted funny stuff; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JamesKel on November 3, 2009 at 7:54pm: Yeah and the clubs you could be in and all the polls and the silly people and I liked the layout better too.
What was your old username, do you remember?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ann Sultan on November 4, 2009 at 9:37am: he looks a bit young; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RantingSidekick on November 5, 2009 at 6:16am: No, he looks about fourteen or fifteen.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JamesKel on November 3, 2009 at 7:53pm: Sorry, I put black. I just meant dark skin. I know it doesn't say black (and that just makes me dumb, it's almost as bad as the people I got angry at). What I did mean was olive skin, sorry. It's just I really don't like how light (pale) pictures depict him. And that picture posted, yes it is darker skin and fine with me! I really don't care that much as long as he's not stereotypically emo with his milk white skin.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Squight on November 5, 2009 at 2:26am: They don't usually show subtle differences in skin tone in mangas, since they're in black-and-white. I don't have much to back this up since there aren't many non-white characters in mangas, but, like... Brock in Pokémon.

Anime Brock:

Manga Brock (top left):

Plus, even if that argument is invalid and stupid, you've got to remember that the manga artist is not a native english speaker. How the hell is she supposed to know what "olive skin" is?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JamesKel on November 5, 2009 at 9:25pm: I meant on the cover he's white and I'm sure she got character descriptions translated into the language she speaks.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Squight on November 9, 2009 at 9:46pm: Maximum Ride hasn't been translated into Korean. The manga artist speaks English, but I don't imagine her vocabulary containing stuff like "olive-skinned."; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JamesKel on November 10, 2009 at 12:07am: I'm sure she just didn't decided to right the manga and then get permission. She probably got outlines, character profiles, things to add in for later in the plot and so on. Even if she doesn't know what olive skin is she could look it up or ask someone seeing as she speaks English.
But really the thing I mostly care about is people saying he has pale skin.; ▶ Reply to This