New Book Gives Insight Into Moulinsart View Of Herge’s Tintin Au Congo

This article at French-language comics clearinghouse and news site ActuaBD.com was more difficult to read than most. Some of the graphs lurch really close to pure opinion and a seething, contemptuous one at that; some of the sentences are just hard to parse, period. My takeaway is that Le Soir and Moulinsart have published a book on the 50th Anniversary of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo's independence from Belgium that digs into Herge's early work including Tintin Au Congo and attempts to describe both the errors he made but also Herge's own attitude towards various aspects of the work and attempts to alter such work at a later date. This would seem to me -- and I'm not sure the article totally agrees -- valuable for any documented facts its journalist-author brings forward but also for the small-p political aspects to releasing such a book and the snapshot it provides of a certain point of view regarding the work currently at legal issue but also Herge's work generally.

I have no idea what I feel about the issue yet. I find the images repulsive but I'm all for the public's right to unfettered access to repulsive art. It's when I ask myself what people are actually defending here that things get weird, because I don't get the sense it's solely a legal principle but rather some obtuse "you're not the boss of me" thing that leads people to diminish or dismiss feelings in which they somehow feel invested despite themselves.
 
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