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

[[Herge|Hergé]] as a young artist was influenced by his mentors, specifically the [[Abbé Wallez]]. This shows in his most important works, the [[Tintin]] series. As the artist develops ideologically, so does the series.

Hergé started drawing Tintin in the 1929 and continued until his death in 1983. 

=== First albums === 

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=== The Second World War ===

Things got more complicated later. ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' was obviously anti-[[nazi]]. But some albums were more controversial. The early and unfinished version of ''Land of Black Gold'' is generally considered as pro-[[Arab]], anti-[[Zionist]] and anti-[[Britain|British]].

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morevery controversial book is ''The Shooting Star'' which is about a race between two crews who are trying to reach a [[meteorite]] landed in the [[arctic]] seas. This race can be interpreted as a competition between [[Europe|Europeans]] ([[Germany|German]] occupied at that time) and Anglo-Americans (the financial backer of the Anglo-Americans has a [[Judaism|Jewish]] name, although this has been changed in some editions, and Tintin flies a German plane at least in first edition). Others say th(contracted; show full)
*''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.