On Wisconsin Public Radio’s Here on Earth program — moderated by the able Jean Feraca — Gene Kannenberg and I chat about Tintin and field listeners’ calls; you can find a streaming of the show at this link. Enjoy my dulcet tones– or, rather, my robotic stammer. ——————————————— Some have chided me for overlooking the [...]
After three installments criticising Hergé for rampant racism and xenophobia, I uneasily picture his ghost appearing before me, with a quizzical smile. « So, » says the ghost, « you’ve really dragged me through the mud, eh ? But what about yourself, Alex? Are you a racist?” “No!” I answer. ”No, but…” New York, Washington [...]
The entire Tintin in Otherland series is here. ____________________ The immediate aftermath of the war was harsh for Hergé, even though he could be accused, at worst, of passivity. He learned his lesson – what political satire there was in his books would henceforth be muted; minorities treated with greater respect. The books would be [...]
[Part One here.] Wherever you look, you come face-to-face with the Other. Other race, other religion, other sex, other age, other individual… you name it. Reactions to the Other are complex and often self-contradictory: they run the gamut from instinctive loathing to fascinated attraction. The same person may be viciously hostile to, say, Indian immigrants, [...]
The children’s comics album Tintin au Congo, by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, has been much in the news of late– and not in a good way. In Britain, the Commission for Racial Equality has condemned the book’s “abominable” racism (and proving once more that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, its sales have jumped [...]
So…what is the big deal about Sailor Moon? Let me tell you my story.
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