It is one of the most controversial albums by the legendary Hergé… “Tintin in the Congo” returns on the occasion of a series entitled “Behind the scenes of a work” published by Moulinsart. “If I had to rewrite Tintin in the Congo, it would be very different,” confided the master in 1979.
As part of a series titled Behind the scenes of a workMoulinsart editions publish Tintin in the Congo : a book of secrets, anecdotes and enlightening archives on one of the most controversial albums by the master Hergé. “Tintin is a mirror, Tintin was not racist but colonialist like everyone was at the time. If I had to rewrite Tintin in the Congothat would be very different,” Hergé told RTBF in 1979.
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Tintin’s adventure should not have taken place in the Congo…
The truth is that after Tintin in the Land of the SovietsHergé wanted to send his reporter to the United States to make fun of the opposite camp, but Abbé Wallez, director of the 20th century, the newspaper which employed Hergé, preferred the Congo. From 1930 to 1931, Hergé published this adventure with exotic but documented gags at the age of 23.
In Tintin in the Congo, behind the scenes of a work, we discover the photos that the designer used, and the animal jokes that he steals from Benjamin Rabier, one of his masters, the one who drew the laughing cow.
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Until 1975, Hergé will modify his Tintin in the Congo especially for the German version, here the rhino will escape Tintin’s gunshot, in the French version the animal will continue to blow itself up with dynamite. If Hergé is just as exciting as Tintin, the genesis of his works is as exciting as the adventures of his famous reporter.
