the "new yorker" is swell. but there's one thing that grates. the obeisance it makes to liberal pieties. like joe e brown says in "some like it hot": nobody's perfect.this week anthony lane spoiled an appreciative essay on hergé, the author of the tintin escapades, with some humbuggery about racism in "tintin in the congo". phooey! the congo episode is not racist. but it is poorly drawn. and rather lacking in drama. it just isn't up to the typical tintin standard. the series only really gets going in the third issue, "tintin in america".
the reporter also makes heavy weather over the jewish villain bohlwinkel in "tintin and the shooting-star". imbecile.
for the record: "tintin and the shooting-star" is my favourite. if only because it happened to be the one i read first as a child. also the giant spiders were a winning touch.
2 comments:
Thanks for reminding me about Tintin. Great stuff, almost forgotten.
hm...do you think your anthony lane took in consideration the time tintin was written? the 20s & 30s weren't quite up and up on their political correctness (yeah, yeah, I wikipedia'd)
and thanks for the earworm. fair play i suppose since i gave you "the candy man".
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