Tintin in America (Tintin #3 )

Posted on 14 November 2018 by Hergé

The classic graphic novel Tintin comes to the U.S.A to clean up the mean streets of Chicago but ends up in the wild west Will Tintin make it back home Read Tintin in America (Tintin #3 ) By Hergé – kino-fada.fr On second thought , let s not go to America Tis a silly place.Tintin en Am rique Tintin in America Tintin, 3 , Herg Tintin in America French Tintin en Am rique is the third volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Herg Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingti me Si cle for its children s supplement Le Petit Vingti me, it was serialised weekly from September 1931 to October 1932 before being published in a collected volume by ditions du Petit Vingti me in 1932 The story tells of young Belgia Tintin en Am riqu... We ve arrived I smell gangsters To quote Snowy Tintin has arrived This is, as far as all logic dictates, the first Tintin book in the series in the conventional sense The first two Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin au Congo are oddities which are interesting in their own right, but really recommended for Tintin completists onl...Gangsters, machine guns and police brutality Welcome to the good ole U.S of A., Tintin On a mission to clean up corruption in Chicago, Tintin is kidnapped, shot at, gassed, tossed in a lake, and clubbed by a copper Then it s onward to the Redskin Reservation to make fun of some Native Americans Here Tintin, the little towheaded Paleface, is shot at some , trapped in a tunnel, and manages to discover oil Don t worry oil company men instantly materialize to reap the profits and screw th Gangsters, machine guns and police brutality Welcome to the good ole U.S of A., Tintin On a mission to clean up corruption in Chicago, Tintin is kidnapped, shot at, gassed, tossed in a lake, and clubbed by a copper Then it s onward to the Redskin Reservation to make fun of some Native Americans Here Tintin, the little towheaded Paleface, is shot at...When I first read Herg s Tintin en Am rique in German translation as Tim in Amerika as a child and I guess I must have been about nine or ten years of age , I did indeed find the general storyline somewhat and mildly amusing But even then even at that time , I was already thinking that Herg had been rather strangely loose with his fusing together 1920s 1930s Chicago gangster and organised crime culture with what can only be considered and described as the so called Wild West and its utte When I first read Herg s Tintin en Am rique in German translation as Tim in Amerika as a child and I guess I must have been about nine or ten years of age , I did indeed find the general storyline somewhat and mildly amusing But even then even at that time , I was already thinking that Herg had been rather strangely loose with his fusing together 1920s 1930s Chicago gangster and organised crime culture with what can only be considered and described as the so called Wild West and its utterly stereotypical late 19th century Cowboys and Indians thematics and scenarios Now the ethnic stereotyping, the cultural insensitivity to Native Americans did not chafe me so much as a child especially since in Germany at that time, the rather similarly constructed and conceptualised tales of Noble Savages and especially the stories penned ...After Africa, and Congoprecisely, Tintin went to America.From his arrival in Chicago, he has a lot to deal with gangsters who seem to have given themselves the word to lead him the hard life They will try every means to harm him threats, kidnapping, transformation into Corned beefTintin will go to Indian territory in pursuit of a brigand Note that Herg s vision is far from being uninteresting as to what happens to the Indians once oil is discovered on their land.Well, this album i After Africa, and Congoprecisely, T..., Re reading Tintin series is special experience to me, he was the comics hero i rated highly when i came to Sweden as a kid Of course i cant remember much from the actual stories now other than i liked the over the top fun,adventure.Rating this as an adult is different and i thought this volume was a clear improvement on the black and white early,immature artwork of the first volume Tintin in Soviet and the weird,off putting animal slaughterhouse that is Tintin in Congo.This volume the art is mu Re reading Tintin series is special experience to me, he was the com..., , , ,

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14 November 2018

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