Talk:The ideology of Tintin/to do

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• Add: Hergé got arrested: his working during the war was seen as collaboration.
• Add: 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was almost entirely redrawn, because the British publisher felt the depiction of England and Scotland in that album was outdated.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.
• Add: 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. There is a noteworthy (if subtle) contrast between Tintin's moral outrage at first hearing of the slave trade and Emir Ben Kalish Ezab's tacit acceptance of it (The Emir only threatens to reveal the trade when Arabair refuses to have their planes loop-the-loop to gratify the spoiled Abdullah).