The roving Reporter and his little white Terrier are one of the most successful Duos in the comic literature. Just Hergé, its Creator, owes to Belgium, his reputation as a comic country. However, was not without controversy.
The Reporter and his dog in the movie adaptation of “Tintin in the Hafischsee” (1972)
10. January 1929, exactly 90 years ago, were Tim and his dog to see Tintin for the first Time on the pages of the Catholic Belgian newspaper “Le Vingtième Siècle”, in the children’s Supplement “Le Petit Vingtième”,. In the first episodes they made in Stalin’s Soviet Union, constantly police to be monitored by the dreaded secret. The story was written to may, 1930, the Fort, and subsequently appeared in book form under the title of “Tim in the land of the Soviets”. The content of the first adventure of Tim and Struppi was anti-especially-Communist Propaganda – exciting-Packed for children and young people.
With friends through thick and thin
Tim’s inventor, Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, wrote to his heroes of the various stories on the body of detective stories, political thrillers to Science Fiction. In addition to the loyal white dog friend Tintin Hergé numerous companions, who accompanied the Reporter during his adventures, such as, for example, the hot-tempered and notoriously drunken captain Haddock, the brilliant but hard of hearing Professor calculus or even the bumbling invented adhere detectives Thomson and Thompson.
Colonialist and racist Stereotypes in the early work
A cause for criticism: “Tintin in the Congo”
The Belgian Congo in 1931, was the scene of Tim and Struppis second adventure. Because in the original Version of the colonialist and racist Stereotypes were supported, and threatened countries, such as Belgium, Sweden and the USA later, to ban the book. Hergé changed his story then. His fascination for foreign cultures and ancient civilizations remained. During his studies in Brussels he met the Chinese artist, Zhang Chongren, who helped him to his native land in “The blue Lotus” (1934).
Accusation of Nazi collaboration
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90 years of “Tim and Struppi”
In the late 1930s, Hergés stories contained some more or less subtle criticism of the fascist regimes of Europe. In “king Ottokar’s sceptre” is he Tim in the fictional Eastern European country Syldavien travel, where he will fight the villains Rawczik (in frz. The Original “Musstler”, composed of the surnames of the dictators Mussolini and Hitler) is fighting the will of one of its neighboring countries to Annex.
When the German Wehrmacht invaded in 1940, Belgium, the German occupiers Hergés house, dial close. The cartoonist adapted and changed to “Le Soir”, a propaganda organ of the Nazis. After the liberation of Belgium in September 1944, the newspaper was closed and its staff as collaborators accused. Hergé was arrested several times and later with a two-year professional ban.
Tintin lives on the canvas
Georges Remi-alias Hergé
In the post-war period, numerous television and theatre adaptations of the Tintin stories, as well as a half-dozen film versions, published five of which during the lifetime of Hergé were created.
Hergé died in 1983. Previously, he had expressed the wish that after his death no other artist Tintin should draw, and the adventures of the young reporter come to an end. A total of 24 Tintin stories were published, the last posthumously in 1986.
On paper, the career of the Duo was over. But in 2011, inspired American film Director Steven Spielberg with his 3-D animated film “The adventures of Tim and Struppi – the secret of the unicorn” to life. A continuation under the new Zealand film Director Peter Jackson is, according to Spielberg in work. Tintin will, therefore, continue to fascinate generations of Fans.