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Comments about '''Hergé and ideology'''.

[[Herge|Hergé]] started making the comic strip series [[Tintin]] in 1929 for the children's section of the [[Belgium|Belgian]] newspaper ''[[Le Vingtième Siècle]]'', aligned with the [[Rexism|Rexist]] right-wing movement. He continued on other media until his death in 1983. 

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=== Post-war ===

''The Calculus Affair'' is anti-[[Stalinism|Stalinist]] but there is nothing specifically controversial in it.

''The Castafiore Emerald'' takes part for the [[Roma and Sinti|Roma]].  Captain Haddock and Tintin find a gypsy community camping in a garbage dump for want any other place they are 
allowed to be in .  Disgusted at the community's mistreatment, theyHaddock invites the community to camp on his estate grounds of Marlinspike over the objections of their bigoted butler.

''Flight 714'' is obviously mocking [[Marcel Dassault]] who was both Jewish and a weapon seller, this could be interpreted as [[anti-semitic]] by some but there's no reference to the fact he was Jewish. Weapons sellers are a recurring theme in Tintin, there are several (more or less obvious) references to [[De Havilland]] and [[Vickers Armstrong]].
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=== Picaros ===

The last controversial album is ''Tintin and the Picaros''; it has been seen both as left-wing and right-wing. In it, Tintin goes through profound changes. Where the fans were originally put off by cosmetic changes, this is the first album in which Tintin changes from a faceless hero to somebody of flesh and blood. Where in all earlier stories the reporter was able to change his environment for the better, here he is able to change the environment too, through [[revolution]], no less. Or so it seems. For in the very last panel of his very last finished album, Hergé shows how the new order still has the military keeping order in the slums, of which the inhabitants are off no better and no worse.

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* Hergé got arrested: his working during the war was seen as collaboration.
* Hergé rewrote and redrew an enormous amount of his stories. For instance, Captain Haddock's heavy drinking got edited severely, and ''The Black Island'' was almost entirely redrawn, because the British publisher felt the depiction of [[England]] and [[Scotland]] in that album was outdated. Yet, possible [[racist]] and [[anti-semitic]] parts of the story were maintained. See http://www.cwi.nl/ftp/dik/strips/KUIFJE/ for examples.
*''The Red Sea Sharks'' is of course a statement against the modern day [[slave trade]], although it is not clear if it is ideological in nature.