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- @domjoly I liked the first 1/2 to 2/3rds but last part, i.e. the new material, was weak. >>
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- Almost 300 members of @tintinid watched the Tintin Movie together at Blitz Grand Indonesia yesterday #tintinID >>
- Tintin in the Congo defended by the Vatican! -- http://t.co/wKW6ln7E >>
- Tintin continues to triumph in cinemas. -- http://t.co/4KN1JRBH >>
- Nice collection of images from Toronto Draws Tintin -- http://t.co/8TJUL3rE >>
- RT @akajonah The movie is exquisite! Beautiful ! Need to watch it again,2 much to take in! Breathtaking! 3D awesome. Felt like a kid again! >>
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- Toronto Draws Tintin -- http://t.co/qdCie78C >>
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Tintin in Angola
The bottom half of this image is from Tintin in Angola (“Tim-Tim em Angola”), the Portuguese version of Tintin in the Congo. The top half is the original version.
This is a great example of how colonial / racist attitudes displayed in Tintin in the Congo were the norm for the time. The Portuguese publisher clearly felt that their country’s superiority over its colony Angola was identical to Belgium’s superiority over the Congo. Clearly the racism demonstrated by Herge in his early work was simply reflecting the widespread racism across all western, colonial powers at that time.
This image comes from Héctor Germán Oesterheld’s and Carlos Roume’s Nahuel Barros’ Last Story – Coda, from the web site of a Portuguese comics critic. The blog is in English and probably contains lots of interesting stuff but the layout of the text is an unreadable dense mass. This is a shame as I suspect breaking things into a few paragraphs and adding a ton of whitespace would make it a really good blog.



Thanks for your criticism. I noticed that a while ago too. I resisted change until now (don’t ask why!), but your comment convinced me…
May 9th, 2009 at 2:15 am