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The ideology of Tintin
Comments about '''Hergé and ideology'''.

[[Herge|Hergé]] started drawing Tintin in the 1929 for the children's section of the [[Belgium|Belgian]] newspaper [[Le Vingtieme Siecle]], aligned with the [[Rexism]] right-wing movement. He continued on other media until his death in 1983. 

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A very 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 p
alane (an Arado 193), at least in first editions. Others say the ideology is not obvious and maybe it was done to fool [[censorship]] but it can be discussed.

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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.