Why is Tintins First Adventure so Controversial?
Le Vingtième Siècle, a conservative Roman Catholic magazine, with the adventure later printed as a book, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. From June 1930 until June 1931, Tintin and Snowy traveled through what was then the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), with the adventure reprinted as a book, Tintin in the Congo. After these two adventures–written and illustrated by Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi–Tintin and Snowy went on to have twenty-two other adventures and to earn a place in the hearts and cultures of the world, appearing in some seventy languages and in many countries. Tintin and Snowy may at last become celebrities in the United States with the announced filming of three of their adventures by Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg. But the first two adventures, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo, still stand as an embarrassment for Tintin fans, as they were for Tintin’s creator, Hergé, who claimed they were the mistakes of a
