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  Annals of Damage Control: Tintin Edition - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog - Complaints about “Tintin in the Congo,” a comic book originally published in 1931, gathered momentum recently when David Enright, a lawyer in London, happened to pick up a copy as he strolled through a Borders store there.
What he saw in the book — suggestions “that Africans are subhumans, they are imbeciles, that they’re half-savage” — is not in
- BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bid to ban 'racist' Tintin book - A racism watchdog calls for a Tintin adventure to be removed from the shelves of a leading bookshop.
- BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Book chain moves 'racist' Tintin - A US book chain removes a Tintin adventure story from the children's section over concerns about its "racist" content.
- Ban 'racist' Tintin book, says CRE | Uk News | News | Telegraph - Get the latest UK news and World news from the Telegraph. Your source for sport news, business news, travel news, motoring news and property news
- Ban Tintin? It's not a black and white matter | St Opinion | Opinion | Telegraph - 'Pneumothorax!" as Captain Haddock might observe. Tintin, the ginger-quiffed boy detective, who, together with his faithful dog Snowy, has been confounding the forces of evil since 1929, stands accused of being one of the forces of evil himself.
According to the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), his adventures in the Congo reveal our hero
- Blistering Tintin's Barnacles - So just exactly what is the Commission for Racial Equality, the UK organization that by virtue of a single citizen complaint, has deemed Tintin and the Congo a racist work of art and, in the process, cast an unexpected pall over the franchise Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are hoping to finally turn into an American big screen bonanza?
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- Borders UK yanks 'Tintin in the Congo' from children's section over racism concerns - LONDON: The bookstore chain Borders is removing the comic "Tintin in the Congo" from the children's section of its British stores, after a customer complained the work was racist, the company said Thursday.
David Enright, a London-based human rights lawyer, was shopping at Borders with his family when he came upon the book, first published in
- Coco and his white mister - There are two kinds of post-colonials — the guilty and the giggling. In the apportioning of modern justice, the ex-colonizers get the guilt, and the ex-colonized often manage to wrest for themselves the right to find it all terribly funny. Political correctness is largely the creation of the former. It is a kind of ‘white noise’ that seldom escapes
- Congolese student begins legal action against 'Tintin In The Congo' over racist content | the Dail - A Congolese student has started legal action against the publisher of the comic book Tintin claiming it is racist and should be removed from bookshops
- Editorial: Blistering barnacles! Tintin racist? - 22 Jul 2007 - NZ Herald: Opinion, Editorial and re - The silliest aspect of the furore surrounding the second adventure of the comic-book character Tintin is that it should have erupted now. The bookstore chain Borders removed copies…
- Foundation defends Tintin against racism charge| Lifestyle| Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters Life!) - A foundation which protects the rights of Tintin author Hergé leaped to his defense on Thursday after criticism from a British racism watchdog.
The Hergé foundation said the 1931 "Tintin in the Congo" comic book -- one of 23 books which track the adventures of the fictional young journalist and his trusty dog Snowy -
- Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - books: From boot boy to revolutionary: Tintin's political journey - Tintin in the Congo, which has been removed from children's bookshelves, is naive and xenophobic, but doesn't represent Herge - or Tintin - in full.
- IOL: Let's talk about Tintin - Zapiro - The Afrikaans publisher of the popular Tintin series, Human and Rosseau, decided not to release an Afrikaans version of the book because it depicted "indigenous African people in an unflattering stereotypical fashion", said company spokesperson Carina Diedericks-Hugo.
- Let Tintin the racist speak - lived in Brussels until I was nine. One of my abiding memories is of a school trip to the Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, a vast, grandiose building built by King Leopold II, who also ordered the construction of the equally outsized Palais de Justice, which became Hitler’s favourite building.
- Librarians to review race row Tintin book - The adventures of Tintin and his pet dog Snowy have been enjoyed by generations of young people across Europe for more than 70 years.
A series of comic books written and drawn by the Belgian Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, documented the pair's battles against villains in exotic locations including America, Tibet and even The Moon.
But
- NDTV.com: Tintin caught in racism case - All Ndtv news on India:Tintin caught in racism case - A student from Congo has started legal action against the publisher of the comic book Tintin, claiming it is racist and should be removed from bookstores.
- NDTV.com: Tintin comic accused of being racist - All Ndtv news on India:Tintin comic accused of being racist - A British watchdog has warned readers about its racist content and want Tin Tin comics off the shelves.
- Racist fears remove Tintin comic | Herald Sun - THE classic comic book Tintin in the Congo has been removed from the children's section of a major Australian book chain because of fears it may be "offensive".
Borders is taking similar action to stores in the US and UK, after complaints there the book was racist.
"We are committed to acting responsibly as a retailer and with sensitivit
- South African publishers slap restrictions on 'Tintin in the Congo' over racism - Internat - JOHANNESBURG, South Africa: South African publishers have placed restrictions on the comic book "Tintin in the Congo" following complaints of racism in Britain.
The Afrikaans publisher of the popular Tintin series, Human & Rousseau, has decided not to release an Afrikaans version of the book, SABC radio reported Saturday.
"We felt that it
- The Commission for Racial Idiocy | Dt Opinion | Opinion | Telegraph - The book, it's true, features fairly grotesque drawings that look more like tall monkeys than human beings from the Congo. The harsh reality is that in 1931, when the book was first published, that is how black Africans were commonly viewed by your average European.
Even those less interested in the boy reporter's adventures and more intereste
- The CompleteTintin won't be complete
- The world of Tintin may be gone, but that's why we like it - Opinion - THE adventures of Tintin, the globetrotting boy reporter with the ludicrously improbable hairdo and preposterously Edwardian attire, has always been something of a guilty pleasure for those of liberal inclinations.
Tintin's comic-book career stretched from the gloomy 1930s, when the Western democracies so often seemed in danger of being eclipse
- Tintin - a problematic figure | Uk News | News | Telegraph - Georges Remi, better known by his pen name Hergé, used to boast that the adventures of Tintin were enjoyed by boys aged from seven to 77, and today the appeal of the Belgian boy reporter's adventures and the artist's beautiful ligne claire illustrations is stronger than ever.
But Hergé has always been a problematic figure, who stands accused o
- Tintin book accused of colonial racism - Telegraph - Belgium's state prosecutor is investigating the country's cartoon hero Tintin for racism after a complaint from Congolese student.
Mbutu Mondondo Bienvenu, a political science student at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, has taken legal action claiming Hergé's controversial Tintin In The Congo "constitutes an insult for all the Congolese".
- Tintin book faces racism challenge in Belgium - BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A Congolese student has launched a court case in Belgium to have the comic book "Tintin in the Congo" declared racist and withdrawn from sale, according to media reports Wednesday.
"Tintin in the Congo," which first appeared in Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle as a comic strip in 1930-1931, is part of
- Tintin book is crude, racist and must be banned, says watchdog - Times Online - A cartoon adventure featuring Tintin, the heroic Belgian journalist, shouldnot be sold in Britain, the Commission for Racial Equality said yesterday.
- Tintin defended over racism charge| UK| Reuters - A foundation which protects the rights of Tintin author Hergé leaped to his defence on Thursday after criticism from a British racism watchdog.
The Hergé foundation said the 1931 "Tintin in the Congo" comic book -- one of 23 books which track the adventures of the fictional young journalist and his trusty dog Snowy -- should be read in the con
- Tintin in the Congo sales soar in Britain after racism row - LONDON - Sales of a Tintin comic book have rocketed since Britain's Commission for Racial Equality claimed it was racist, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Sales of "Tintin in the Congo" have shot up by 3,800 percent after the CRE watchdog claimed it contained potentially highly offensive material, said The Daily Telegraph.
The comic has reac
- Tintin out of kids' section in UK stores - NEW YORK: Tintin in the Congo, an illustrated work was removed from the children's section of Borders Group stores in Britain because of allegations of racism, and will receive similar treatment by the superstore chain in the United States.
"Borders is committed to carrying a wide range of materials and supporting our customers’ right to choo
- Tintin's Stepmother Agrees to Ban Album from Children’s Bookshelves | The Brussels Journal - The Hergé Foundation agrees with yesterday’s decision of the international bookseller Borders Books to ban the comic album “Tintin in the Congo” from its children’s section and move it to the adult section of its stores.
The Hergé Foundation manages the estate of the late Brussels writer and illustrator Hergé [Georges Remi, 1907-1983]. The Found
- Tintin's racist adventure kept out of little arms' reach - World - smh.com.au - LONDON: The bookshop chain Borders is removing the comic bookTintin in the Congo from the children's section of its Britishstores, because a customer complained it was racist. -
- Trouble in the Congo - Billions of blue blistering barnacles, but what kind of bashi-bazouk would want a Tintin comic book banned some 77 years after it was first written?.
Herge—his real name was Georges Remi—introduced Tintin, “reporter for Le Petit Vingtieme” in the 1929 The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets for the children’s section of a Belgian
- U.S. Borders bookstores move controversial 'Tintin in the Congo" out of ch - NEW YORK: "Tintin in the Congo," an illustrated work removed from the children's section of Borders Group, Inc., stores in Britain because of allegations of racism, will receive similar treatment by the superstore chain in the United States.
"Borders is committed to carrying a wide range of materials and supporting our customers' right to c
- ‘Racist’ Tintin to be restricted in SA shops - JOHANNESBURG – South African publishers have placed restrictions on the comic book Tintin in the Congo” following complaints of racism in Britain.
The Afrikaans publisher of the popular Tintin series, Human & Rousseau, has decided not to release an Afrikaans version of the book, SABC radio reported Saturday.
“We felt that it depicted indigenous A
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