This is my artistic reinterpretation of the iconic character Tarzan of the Apes as a man of indigenous African descent, instead of the White Englishman he was in the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novels and their various cinematic adaptations. Growing up, the Disney adaptation was my favorite of their whole animated catalog, and I’ve also read several of the Burroughs novels, but unfortunately, the character’s “Mighty White Savior” connotations appear to have made him less fashionable in recent years.

I don’t actually want Disney to give Tarzan the “live-action remake” treatment, since most of their other remakes have felt like soulless cash grabs to me, but if they or any other studio wants to bring the character to life again, I think it would be totally sweet if they made him African by origin as well as by residence.