That Astérix is only two years old, so not surprised it's still on sale! As I recall, Tintin and the Soviets is only really offensive if your heart bleeds for Bolsheviks, and the Rackham series if you don't think alcoholism can ever be a subject for humour
(This mother and child surprised by Tintin in America were both black, until the US publisher prevailed on Hergé to make these characters (and several others) white, so as not to confuse young American readers by showing whites and blacks in a story together. In *1973*.)
Yes, what about it??? We should not ban the offensive works of art - we should study them and explain to the younger generations why those works are morally bad and morally bankrupt... 😭😍👍
Go to the comic art museum if you get the chance. No idea on how offensive it is as it's decades since I've been , but it was good! And Tintin's rocket is there too!
I read them all as a kid, and loved the adventures (and Snowy). Agree that no doubt they are not appropriate in many ways by our standards today, but fortunately I had parents who made sure I understood that all forms of intolerance and bigotry were not OK.
I don't think it's withdrawn in France and Belgium though it's now wrapped in an advisory fly sheet. Personally I find the much later 'Coke en Stock' [!] much more problematic.
Haddock bellowing at the simple-minded black African Muslims unknowingly enslaved while making Haj... eeech.
I couldn't remember the title was "en afrique". But yeah definitely a somewhat troubling glimpse into the horrid shit show that was African colonialism.
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(It's still funny though!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgehQnJYYtk
Haddock bellowing at the simple-minded black African Muslims unknowingly enslaved while making Haj... eeech.
If you strip that out as well as the 1st rather crude album 'Tintin in the Land of the Soviets' and the 24th (unfinished) 'Tintin and Alph-Art'
then you're left with 21 enjoyable albums 1931-1976.
Both series remain important to me. 😎
*definite reference for the kids there…