Yeah, I agree. There is a context to herge’s racism against Japan and he did some positive portrayals of indigenous Americans. But the Congo is straight up racist. And a lesser known one is the virulent antisemitism in a few panels of the one comic whose name I forget, the shooting star I think, with the mushroom on the cover. Herge wrote it while Germany was occupying Belgium so he just wrote it to be antisemitic and portray the Americans as evil, which, the latter is alright but for the wrong reasons.
Yeah, I agree. There is a context to herge’s racism against Japan and he did some positive portrayals of indigenous Americans. But the Congo is straight up racist. And a lesser known one is the virulent antisemitism in a few panels of the one comic whose name I forget, the shooting star I think, with the mushroom on the cover. Herge wrote it while Germany was occupying Belgium so he just wrote it to be antisemitic and portray the Americans as evil, which, the latter is alright but for the wrong reasons.