"July 18, 2007, 11:56 am
Annals of Damage Control: Tintin Edition

By Mike Nizza

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 dispute. Even Hergé, the celebrated author and illustrator of the 23 Tintin books, was said to regret the volume before his death in 1983.
Borders' next move in Britain, which was announced after the Commission for Racial Equality leveled charges of racism, was to transfer the comic to the adult graphic novel shelves. Now, the United States and Australia have followed suit."



The author knew he was wrong. But we all know better, don't we.