New Hinterland Pulp Characters

[Mancha]

I was telling Dr. Mathias, I think there's actually some rule in the LAF FAQ that one may only be a member if one has read all the Tintin books.     

[Hammers]

Is it me, or was it about 15 years ago I read an album?
Damn, now I have to buy them all just to indoctorine my child...

As a Swede I know where Silversixx is coming from with this one. The 'artistic director' of the Stockholm Cultural Center was just the other day about to purge the library from Tintin album because of their colonialist and racist outlook. There was of course a huge public outcry.

[Bugsda]

The 'artistic director' of the Stockholm Cultural Center was just the other day about to purge the library from Tintin album because of their colonialist and racist outlook. There was of course a huge public outcry.

Oh c'mon, Tintin's hardly Biggles is he  

Excellent characters Mancha  

I'll be buying some after I've fleeced Malamute next month............um! I mean sold some Alamo paintwork 

[Steve F]

Oh c'mon, Tintin's hardly Biggles is he  

It's one album in particular which causes all the trouble: Tintin in the Congo, which is indeed pretty ghastly.  It was meeting Chinese schoolchildren while working on The Blue Lotus which convinced Hergé to research his books.  Up until then, he just used the clichés that were prevalent among right-wing Catholic Europeans of his day.  Tintin in America, for example, is as guilty as this as Tintin in the Congo, but the prevailing clichés about Americans weren't as poisonous as those about Africans.

[Plynkes]

He did have something of a Damascene conversion. The Blue Lotus even has Chang lecturing Tintin about bigotry and stereotypes. For me Tintin really hits its stride around the time of this watershed moment, in a storytelling sense as well as regarding realism, accuracy and dumping all the conservative propaganda that Le Petit Vingtième wanted him to ram down the throats of young Belgians. We get interesting stories instead of just a bunch of mad skits and random events slapped together into a book.

[Bugsda]

Aha! Stealth bigotry, a bit like Enid Blyton's Famous Fifth Column 

[FramFramson]

Aha! Stealth bigotry, a bit like Enid Blyton's Famous Fifth Column  

As a Canadian I read noddy books as a kid (my grandparents had a whole set), when I was so young that my primary memory of the series was "Parp parp!"

Many years later someone mentioned the series again and I had a look to refresh my memory. Bit of a minor shocker to come on it again with a (more or less) modern adult perspective. Those er, car theives are something else.

[scoilt]

Nice. Looking at some future purchases.