In this catalogue-chapter, the use of types and stereotypes of Africans in comics is looked into. Focus is put on some distinct strategies of representing and negotiating race in comics, most notably one example by Birgit Weyhe and several by Anton Kannemeyer a.k.a. Joe Dog because of their exceptional high quality of reflected experimentation. The choice of examples has been directed by the argument put forward here, not by the referred comics' sales figures or genre. We need to keep in mind, that there is a close relation between the genre of a comic and its visual style: a distorted, caricatural representation is expected in humoristic comics (Lefèvre: 2008, 177). This is different from the notion of prototypical figures and behaviours argued for from a narratological perspective, where specific figures have to act according to their own and the stories' established formal demands (Colm Hogan 2010). How far comics are depending on suchlike prototypical narratives or protocol is a very interesting question but cannot be addressed here.