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It's the mothafuckin' Tintin!
Jessidee:
the only tin tin that i have ever known is really bad cartoons on early morning tv. :|
tuna ketchup x:
Maybe it's because of the movie, but it seems there's been a hell of a lot of renewed interest in Tintin over the past year. There were two panels about it at SPX (well, one was about Franco-Belgian comics in general, but Tintin got a lot of attention), and my comic book store put up a Tintin display.
I've only flipped through them, but I don't think the racism is any worse than anything else from the 1930s: that is, it's pretty fuckin' racist, but you have to take it in context. It is certainly not as bad as the stuff Herr Disney was producing.
Nodaisho:
I have to say that reading through The Blue Lotus (a few years ago), I didn't really notice what I could recognize as racism, I'm sure there was some there, but I didn't notice it, so do you think someone of the age it was aimed at would notice? As a little kid, I would have thought "Huh, these guys are drawn kind of funny."
Alex C:
I'd like to point out that there is a difference between prejudice and racism. Racism is an outright belief that being of a particular race makes you superior. Racial prejudice is often misguided and ignorant but is not necessarily malicious. There's a difference between thinking that all black people eat chicken and watermelon every day and thinking they're sub-human. Functionally, it's an often pointless distinction to make since assigning people traits based on skin or origin is typically counterproductive anyway, but it is a thought to keep in the back of your head when dealing with fiction from earlier periods in history when certain mores were often accepted out of hand by the general public.
RedLion:
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And how old is that thread?
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