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8:12 pm
01/16/2011
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Simon
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Tintin is a young Belgian reporter who travels around the world on assignments. He reports back to the Belgian public on world matters and is always accompanied by his loyal dog Snowy.
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9:02 pm
01/16/2011
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Ian
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I used to love Tintin as a kid, but I still haven't read that Congo issue. It's so weird – a far cry from the Milestone comics I also grew up reading ;)
As unfortunate as it is, it certainly seems like the image Herge uses was "comic shorthand" for black people during that era of cartooning. Eisner uses similar caricatures through his run of the Spirit, though his characters definitely had more depth than Hergé's (and editor's) unfortunate victims of Belgian colonial thought.
Sorry about the lack of high quality scans for the second one. I can't afford to get a copy right now, but hopefully in the future I'll fix the images to match this books actual presentation.
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4:55 am
01/17/2011
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jonah_X
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My father has many of the Tintin comics (which are called here "Tim und Struppi", Struppi being the dog), so I looked at the pictures when I was very young, and also read them when I was a little older – but despite which age, I loved them.
That's all I have to say…no, there's one thing. Tintin i nthe Land of the Soviets? I'm curious, why have I never heard of that?
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1:16 pm
01/17/2011
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Ian
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Probably just because it was never recolored and released in most languages.
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1:51 pm
01/17/2011
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Simon
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Struppi :D
I love that it seems in every language Snowy has a different name; Snowy, Milou and Struppi so far.
I am sure there must be more and I am very interested in finding out what they are.
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1:54 pm
01/17/2011
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Simon
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According to the ever accurate Wikipedia:
"The 1939 Portuguese edition of Tintin in the Congo, renamed as Tintin em Angola, was locally colored and had a yellow female Snowy, renamed Rom-Rom."
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1:58 pm
01/17/2011
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Ian
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hahah, Rom-Rom. I wonder why the dog was female? Wouldn't that be the only main female character in Tintin, then? I swear, I don't remember many girls.
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2:00 pm
01/17/2011
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Simon
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The images all seem to fine Ian, although I am likely to be less picky than yourself on their quality.
The only difference appears to be that the French version has the sound effect "BUM" rather than "CRASH".
It is a shame about the racism in the book; the first story s full of comments on Russian life that make you feel he isn't an ignorant man like the second story does.
But on looking at his reported source material for Soviet Russia it turns out he was just being ignorant there too, even if it turned out he was mostly right.
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2:02 pm
01/17/2011
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Ian
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I'm not sure where I heard it, but I once learned that he wasn't really a well traveled man. Apparently he just did a lot more research for his latter books. He definitely gets much better as it goes on.
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2:04 pm
01/17/2011
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Simon
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Milou was named after the writers girlfriend, so was thought to be female until he was called a "good boy" in one strip.
There is only one female character I can think of that appears often, Bianca; but she plays an annoying character, so you'd be right in saying there is no main female character that comes off favourably.
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2:14 pm
01/17/2011
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Ian
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yeah, I think I've heard that before.
Not that it's really that bad. It's not outright misogynistic, just the kind of Boys Adventure literature that was popular across many media in that era.
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6:05 pm
02/18/2011
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Drakul
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I'm catching up since I've been MIA since December.
Glad to see an american blog review some Tintin. I'm French so to me Tintin is the be all and end all of European B.D. (Bande Dessinee which means drawn strip)
If you're curious about other BD classics I'd recommend checking out Asterix, Lucky Luke, Spirou and Fantasio, and finally Johan and Pirlouit (a spin-off from the Schtroumpfs (Smurfs))
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6:01 am
02/24/2011
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Simon
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Hey Drakul thanks for the time to leave a comment.
As swell as the Americans are, I have to point out that I'm proud to from Ecosse .
I love Asterix, I grew up reading it along with Tintin although I much prefer the later.
I haven't heard of the rest, if you were to recommend just one of them which one should I try to pick up?
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12:36 pm
04/27/2011
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Drakul
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Hey Simon, sorry for the late reply so not sure you'll see this but I'll give you a rundown on each.
Lucky Luke is basically the final of the Triumvirat in France with Tintin and Asterix. It's set in the Far West and he's a quick draw Gunslinger who always squares off with the 4 Dalton brothers.
Spirou et Fantasio is sort of a buddy mystery comic. a very good time overall.
Johan et Pirlouit is the off shot of the Smurfs and it's basically a fantasy setting. Two guys live in the forest, they know a wizard. It's very Arthurian in feel.
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2:57 pm
04/27/2011
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Simon
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I quite like the sound of the gunslinger or the mystery, I guess it'll come down to what kind of mystery (i.e. noir etc)
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