Rohini Lakshané1d ago

I picked up this copy of a Tintin comic in a waiting room. My first time reading Tintin as an adult. These comics are racist as f**k. The coloniser gaze is everywhere. As a child, I felt it but could never articulate it.

Edit: I found this Wikipedia page about it. This is indeed one of the most racist of the Tintin comic albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo

Show threadLuv Mehta23h ago
@rohini i remember seeing a very good thread over here about the first comic they ever made actually, turns out Tintin started as a comic published in an explicitly fascist magazine pre-WW2.
Show threadRohini Lakshané23h ago
@mehluv well, 'explicitly fascist' clocks.
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@rohini @mehluv A magazine in Nazi-occupied Belgium, to be precise - he was at worst a reluctant collaborator with the fascists (by working for a compliant magazine instead of, idk, getting work as a farm labourer), not someone going out of his way to be fascist

"Tintin in the Congo" is shocking however

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