Mastodawn

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

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Kruku

@rohini
In all honesty, Tintin was not the worst piece of white Supremacist propaganda that came out in the 1930s. Hergé(Georges Remi) had a long history of churning out propaganda for the far Right and he couldn't get away from his roots even after WWII when he came close to getting thrown in jail for enthusiastic collaboration with the Nazis.