Hergé's adventures of Tin Tin

[InsaneApache]

TINTIN will become the first comic strip hero to be honoured by a religious leader when the Dalai Lama presents the Truth of Light award to the Hergé Foundation, named after Tintin’s creator.

The award honours individuals and institutions that have made a significant contribution to the public’s understanding of Tibet. Hergé’s Tintin in Tibet, published in 1959, is the 20th in the classic series, and was said to be Hergé’s favourite.

Tin Tin

What! no Thompsom Twins?

[Mithrandir]

I love the TinTin series.

Even today it's not outdated imho.

[Scurvy]

yeh, i like tin tin (especially the dog )

[Moros]

Je sjal njet ontsnjappen kuifje!

hihi lama.

[GoreBag]

I love the TinTin series.

Even today it's not outdated imho.

Except the caricatures of non-caucasoids. Evem still, it's a fun read once in a while, and I used to watch the cartoon series as a child.

[Mithrandir]

You mean black people ?

Yeah, they're depicted not politically correct,if it would be drawn these days he'd probably get a lawsuit against him. It's been a while since I read them, but I think he was always interacting in a positive way to all people, black,yellow red and white ?

[Epistolary Richard]

Hergé's attitudes are a far more interesting question than I originally thought. I found the wikipedia article on him most interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herge

I think it's clear from that that Hergé's attitudes towards race were certainly not static and developed throughout his life. It's important to note that the most obvious example of what Gorebag is referring to, Tintin Au Congo, was first published in 1930 (and to my knowledge never translated into English) whereas the book he's being honoured for, Tintin in Tibet, was published in 1958 - world, and perhaps his own, attitudes had changed.

[discovery1]

You mean black people ?

Yeah, they're depicted not politically correct,if it would be drawn these days he'd probably get a lawsuit against him. It's been a while since I read them, but I think he was always interacting in a positive way to all people, black,yellow red and white ?

I remember him saying that the land some oil was found on belong to some native Americans. They were offered much less then they were offering Tintin, who they thought owned the land. The Native Americans are promptly forced off the land by the army. I guess that doesn't really prove the point that Tintin tends to portry everyone in a positive light. Does attack US policy towards natives though.

[Mithrandir]

what book was that?

[GoreBag]

You mean black people ?

Yeah, they're depicted not politically correct,if it would be drawn these days he'd probably get a lawsuit against him. It's been a while since I read them, but I think he was always interacting in a positive way to all people, black,yellow red and white ?

I would have said negroids, then. No, I mean all non-caucasoids, from the 'yes suh' Congolese with the exaggerated lips to the same exaggerated features found in India to the extreme proliferation of East Asians with bucked teeth.

[thrashaholic]

I would have said negroids, then. No, I mean all non-caucasoids, from the 'yes suh' Congolese with the exaggerated lips to the same exaggerated features found in India to the extreme proliferation of East Asians with bucked teeth.

Caucasoid characters are hardly drawn accurately either. It could be argued that the shape of their noses and large comical moustaches are derogatory to white people, and, in the English version of the cartoon at least, some of the stererotypical portrayals of British people are offensive or objectionable, but they're not because it's a cartoon.

Cartoons, and comedies in general, are funny because the characters are all to a certain extent caricatures and stereotypes of people we encounter in real life, and no one is harmed by that.

If you want gritty realism, watch the news.