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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 
of any other place they are allowed to be in .  Disgusted at the community's mistreatment, Haddock invites the community to camp on his estate grounds of Marlinspike over the objections of their bigotprejudiced 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]].

=== Picaros ===

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*''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.