Europeans always worshipped blacks and force imported them into everyone because they love diversity, back in the 1600s and especially now
And that’s why Britain, Netherlands, France, Belgium is suddenly le 75% and all are objective mutts given haplogroups
It looks like something you'd find in a place with florescent lights. That image brings to mind the subtle sweet aroma of a doctor's office lobby. The style of it. It suggests beigeness and boredom. This is the sort of thing you encounter on the way to places. It's an in between experience. Like, this comic is the embodiment of waiting in line. You see what I mean right. Please I am real and human please relate to me.
I get what you're trying to say, but you are also dumb. The reason you think what you're thinking is because Tintin is old, and it was drawn by an old man, and that old man drew in a very similar way to old men from his era. Herge still had his own unique style, but it's similar enough to things of its era like Popeye, or Gasoline Alley, or the old dude who started Highlights.
It was? It's just old so it isn't as popular now. I mean, it had a successful animated series run too.
It wasn't as popular as it was in Europe, but it still did alright.
Every library used to have some Tintin, then they all removed most of the shelving so schizos and drug dealers couldn’t hide in the stacks and started purging everything old and problematic. I’m really sad and angry that the kind of library where you a kid can discover interesting and inspiring things is going extinct.
Castrate yourself boomer.
Grew up with TinTin thanks to Nickelodeon and collected all the comics. I was the 1% who was excited for the Peter Jackson film
Wasn't the very first TinTin anti-Soviet propaganda?
Europe is East of the Prime Meridian.
Europe is also not part of the Western Hemisphere (i.e., North and South America).
It's understandable why a moderately-well-educated adult might not think Europe counts as the West.
Actually, that raises a good question: Why DO we say Europe is the West?
Because Europe is the western extremity of the Old World and the origin of Western culture. It is not understandable why a moderately-well-educated adult might not think Europe counts as the West, please try to be less droolingly stupid in future.
I can see people thinking "the west" means "the western hemisphere." Just as I can see people thinking "England" and "Britain" refer to the same thing. They wouldn't be correct, but it's an understandable error.
So we all know OP’s a moron who meant America when he said the west, but even with that in mind, I still reject the premise. Tintin is popular in America. I’ve heard people reference Tintin in America. I’ve seen people wearing Tintin shirts in America. His movie was a big success in America. Sure, he’s not Batman or Pikachu, but he’s certainly more popular than “unpopular” or “obscure.”
>tintin goes to some exotic country >the villains try to kill him, even though he isn't investigating anything yet >after they fail to kill him, they frame him up and he'll spend most of the time running from twin cops who, apparently, have an authority all around the world >tintin befriends a local boy (never a girl, they're mysteriously absent in his universe) >the villains run some scooby doo like scheme scaring away the locals and only tintin as a civilized white man sees through >the villain is called either musstler or blumenstein depending on the current political situation >in the end, tintin is cleared of all charges because escape and assault on a police officer are not offenses in his universe
>live in nordic hellhole >Tintin first shows up in the late 40s >some BDs get a liberal translation in the 60s >a slightly better translation shows up in the 70s and all BDs get published >some adventures get adapted into radio theatre and sold on LPs and casette >cartoon airs in the 90s >an autistically accurate translation gets published in the 00s >bunches of memes still hang on to this day
Sometimes you can put up with living here. The spielberg romp was just weird.
Tintin is popular in Great Britain, my mum is out of loop with comics, but she references Tintin on a semi frequent basis.
Also Belgium counts as the west, you just mean America.
>but sherlock holmes was asexual too and people ate that up
judging by all the adaptations that shove in irene adler, doesn't seem they ate it that well
Every American I've met in person has been of average intelligence, so why are you all so stupid online? Can only the smart Americans afford passports or something?
Yes. Imagine your equivalent of the Walloons, Prussians, and Scousers, now make them twice as loud and constantly obsessed with a level of exalted celebrity culture that feeds into itself.
He’s not popular for the same reason Captain Marvel and Doc Savage aren’t, they didn’t catch the right wave of successful radio/cartoon/movie adaptations that give a character real cultural staying power.
I hate when people on twitter go on with le west, like I see every day moronic Black folk going "le epic anime wasn't popular in le west because im a dumb Black person" when my country had them since the 70s and boomers love anime more than teenagers here, or other bullshit like le western comics aka big 2 capeshit lmao kys, or le west nintendo fans when sega was way bigger here than nintendo KYS
IDW are septuple-Black folk for not doing a better job keeping the series in print.
Tintin was an adventure serial during the age of whizbang scifi and drippy gruesome horror in American comics, then his cartoon was aired on either HBO or Nickelodeon in a time period when were still a specialty channels for most of the country.
The REAL head scratcher is why this motherfricker is completely unknown in the States.
My dad used to be into CB radio games in the UK and his handle was Lucky Luke, but he'd never actually read one of the comics and doesn't really know how he heard of him, but I've since got him all of them and what I could of Bluecoats and he loves them.
Because Frank Miller used the name inDKR and was in turn namedropped in the 89 Batman movie, anytime I mention it people think I'm talking about Batman 89.
They used it in the newer The Suicide Squad film too, didn't they?
Heres the complete history of Tintin from an American view:
started with TinTin the Animated series, Only aired on Nick Jr in America in the early 90s, and introduced the character as a Bland and Edgeless storybook Educational figure for Babies / commercials for the book series. The Series never really moved past that, and then later only became relevant again with the bad Spielberg Film, and when the internet noticed some of the later books felt quite racist.
This is the first time I heard people b***hing about how “racist” it is
Feels like a WEFuro trying to fill in what they think of Yanks more then actually what happened
Tintin in Congo was, admitly, what I would call a product of his time.
If anything, it's the earlier volumes that are racist.
I find it clunkier than Tintin, though I like the settings and atmosphere. I wish it was written and drawn better, because there's nothing quite like it.
>wish it was written and drawn better, because there's nothing quite like it.
I think the art is fantastic, it feels like it was inked quickly, like a journal entry, and feels very fluid and alive. Sure it's unpolished and sparse, but I think that's a part of the appeal. There's more movement in how a bird is drawn in corto Maltese background than in most comic art.
It's more all over the place. Once past its first couple of rough voumes, Tintin hits its stride and only gets better and better. Corto Maltese was always more inconsistent but even at its worst is still a decent comic, and brilliant at its best.
Tintin was an adventure serial during the age of whizbang scifi and drippy gruesome horror in American comics, then his cartoon was aired on either HBO or Nickelodeon in a time period when were still a specialty channels for most of the country.
The REAL head scratcher is why this motherfricker is completely unknown in the States.
>why this motherfricker is completely unknown in the States
The stories are kinda shit, and the cowboy western thing went out of fashion in the US back in the 60s.
Lucky Luke began in the 40s. Meanwhile Gunsmoke and Bonaza lasted on until the early 70s. I'm pretty sure he would have done fine if they had bothered to bring him over.
For adults the westerns were prominently up to the 70s, but for kids the western trend was over by 1965. When Toy Story said how westerns entirely fell out of favor for more contemporary or futuristic themes they weren’t exaggerating
As far as I know Lucky Luke wasn’t translated into English until the 90s/2000s. Regardless it entirely missed the boat to get popular in the states because it wasn’t translated over and promoted for a long while and way past when a western comic like it could have made an impact
The Wild West is dozens of times more popular in Europe. This is why americanons are surprised to find out about Blueberry, the Bluecoats and even domestic artists like Stan Lynde. All of which are staples across Europe.
Heck we even have Wild West themed tabletop RPGs where you can get into a gunfight in a saloon with Lee van Cleef.
Marsupilami is a spin-off of Spirou, yes. However, I should mention that Spirou is usually an adult, but there is another popular spin-off of him as a kid.
Heres the complete history of Tintin from an American view:
started with TinTin the Animated series, Only aired on Nick Jr in America in the early 90s, and introduced the character as a Bland and Edgeless storybook Educational figure for Babies / commercials for the book series. The Series never really moved past that, and then later only became relevant again with the bad Spielberg Film, and when the internet noticed some of the later books felt quite racist.
This is the first time I heard people b***hing about how “racist” it is
Feels like a WEFuro trying to fill in what they think of Yanks more then actually what happened
>Titnin in China
This one is head and shoulders above the others though. I think it's when Hergé found the essence of the character and improved a lot from album to album until it reached the peak with the Secret of the Unicorn.
Man, there was nothing like being a kid and getting a new Tintin book.
There was a whole big kerfuffle in the UK about Tin Tin in the Congo being racist. Demands to remove it from sale and all that. It was resolved by chain stores announcing they would move it from the kids section to the adult graphic novels section.
The comics were translated back in the 70s, I know because my parents had them (Asterix too). I never watched a lot of TV as a kid, but I read those comics over and over.
But I always had a feeling it was a weird thing to know. No one at school ever talked about Tintin or Asterix, and my siblings had to bring me back books/games/shirts when they went on exchange trips to Europe. It wasn't a well-known thing.
Americans didn't take to the mix of exciting, pulpy adventures and cartoony characters. For us, adventure comics need to look gritty, realistic and serious and more caricatured people belong in comedies or stories for kids.
>in the west
FRICK
AMERICAN
EXCEPTIONALISM
JFC
I don't see Belgium producing any new books.
I'll respect European culture when Europeans stop acting like it deserves to be replaced by diversity.
Well it didn’t take long for the racists to show up
Why do you think European culture should be eradicated anon?
>56%
Europeans always worshipped blacks and force imported them into everyone because they love diversity, back in the 1600s and especially now
And that’s why Britain, Netherlands, France, Belgium is suddenly le 75% and all are objective mutts given haplogroups
It looks like something you'd find in a place with florescent lights. That image brings to mind the subtle sweet aroma of a doctor's office lobby. The style of it. It suggests beigeness and boredom. This is the sort of thing you encounter on the way to places. It's an in between experience. Like, this comic is the embodiment of waiting in line. You see what I mean right. Please I am real and human please relate to me.
U think u deep but actually u are dumb.
but you do agree it's comic found in places with those cone cups on the water cooler
So? Sometimes muted and simple period pieces are enjoyable. Not everything needs to be constant pizzazz and overstimulation.
lol youre not wrong. its like a dr Seuss book in a pediatricians waiting room.
still kino tho
I get what you're trying to say, but you are also dumb. The reason you think what you're thinking is because Tintin is old, and it was drawn by an old man, and that old man drew in a very similar way to old men from his era. Herge still had his own unique style, but it's similar enough to things of its era like Popeye, or Gasoline Alley, or the old dude who started Highlights.
I remember watching the show when I was a kid. By that time, I didn't know it was based on a comic.
>David Fox (Captain Haddock) and Wayne Robson (Professor Calculus) have since died.
At least Tintin and Snowy are still kicking (for now).
did they air the show here
like all over europe? yes obviously.
It was? It's just old so it isn't as popular now. I mean, it had a successful animated series run too.
It wasn't as popular as it was in Europe, but it still did alright.
He is popular in the west.
Oh wait, you mean in the USA. I don't know, you tards don't read and Tintin has too many big words for you. Maybe that's why.
It was.
Every library used to have some Tintin, then they all removed most of the shelving so schizos and drug dealers couldn’t hide in the stacks and started purging everything old and problematic. I’m really sad and angry that the kind of library where you a kid can discover interesting and inspiring things is going extinct.
That sounds like a legitimate and heartfelt complaint, and also a local one. You should do something about it.
Anon, I didn't know Tintin was created by the soviets
Wasn't the very first TinTin anti-Soviet propaganda?
yeah but according to op he's not popular in the west, which means he's soviet
It was. Its just not popular with millennials or zoomers.
>it wasn’t popular with millenials
Castrate yourself boomer.
Grew up with TinTin thanks to Nickelodeon and collected all the comics. I was the 1% who was excited for the Peter Jackson film
Europe is the west. Europe invented the west. You should have stayed in school.
Europe is East of the Prime Meridian.
Europe is also not part of the Western Hemisphere (i.e., North and South America).
It's understandable why a moderately-well-educated adult might not think Europe counts as the West.
Actually, that raises a good question: Why DO we say Europe is the West?
Because Europe is the western extremity of the Old World and the origin of Western culture. It is not understandable why a moderately-well-educated adult might not think Europe counts as the West, please try to be less droolingly stupid in future.
I can see people thinking "the west" means "the western hemisphere." Just as I can see people thinking "England" and "Britain" refer to the same thing. They wouldn't be correct, but it's an understandable error.
I can see people thinking a lot of dumb shit too, being a moron is an understandable error.
The west is west of Asia, and the east is east of Europe.
It's actually one of the few ways you know you're dealing with a based American instead of the average one.
FRICK YOU I WATCHED THE CARTOON BACK IN THE 1990S
So we all know OP’s a moron who meant America when he said the west, but even with that in mind, I still reject the premise. Tintin is popular in America. I’ve heard people reference Tintin in America. I’ve seen people wearing Tintin shirts in America. His movie was a big success in America. Sure, he’s not Batman or Pikachu, but he’s certainly more popular than “unpopular” or “obscure.”
>tintin goes to some exotic country
>the villains try to kill him, even though he isn't investigating anything yet
>after they fail to kill him, they frame him up and he'll spend most of the time running from twin cops who, apparently, have an authority all around the world
>tintin befriends a local boy (never a girl, they're mysteriously absent in his universe)
>the villains run some scooby doo like scheme scaring away the locals and only tintin as a civilized white man sees through
>the villain is called either musstler or blumenstein depending on the current political situation
>in the end, tintin is cleared of all charges because escape and assault on a police officer are not offenses in his universe
That's pretty much the plot of every story
Dupont and Dupond are interpol
That sounds like an exciting story. Sounds like a good formula.
You forgot the constant jokes about Captain Haddock trying not to drink but getting tricked into doing so.
>live in nordic hellhole
>Tintin first shows up in the late 40s
>some BDs get a liberal translation in the 60s
>a slightly better translation shows up in the 70s and all BDs get published
>some adventures get adapted into radio theatre and sold on LPs and casette
>cartoon airs in the 90s
>an autistically accurate translation gets published in the 00s
>bunches of memes still hang on to this day
Sometimes you can put up with living here. The spielberg romp was just weird.
I remember the new translations in Sweden coming out. It reminds me of the modern day localisation/translation discourse with anime and games.
Tintin is popular in Great Britain, my mum is out of loop with comics, but she references Tintin on a semi frequent basis.
Also Belgium counts as the west, you just mean America.
He means the old West, ya tinhorn varmint.
i feel like tintin having no female love interest might have something to do with it. but sherlock holmes was asexual too and people ate that up.
>but sherlock holmes was asexual too and people ate that up
judging by all the adaptations that shove in irene adler, doesn't seem they ate it that well
that's true. adaptions that don't keep him a volcel and watson smart get no love from me
I wish the Movie did better, it was actually kino
Shame they lost interest doing the series of them. I really wanted to see the professor.
Every American I've met in person has been of average intelligence, so why are you all so stupid online? Can only the smart Americans afford passports or something?
Yes. Imagine your equivalent of the Walloons, Prussians, and Scousers, now make them twice as loud and constantly obsessed with a level of exalted celebrity culture that feeds into itself.
What would be the best way to read the comics? Always wanted to get the whole series physically.
As others have said, it's popular in the West, just not in America.
I blame the CCA and superhero comics for ruining America's comic book industry.
He’s not popular for the same reason Captain Marvel and Doc Savage aren’t, they didn’t catch the right wave of successful radio/cartoon/movie adaptations that give a character real cultural staying power.
I hate when people on twitter go on with le west, like I see every day moronic Black folk going "le epic anime wasn't popular in le west because im a dumb Black person" when my country had them since the 70s and boomers love anime more than teenagers here, or other bullshit like le western comics aka big 2 capeshit lmao kys, or le west nintendo fans when sega was way bigger here than nintendo KYS
Could have been worse.
You could have spelled it 'TinTin'.
I prefer Corto Maltese.
Lo and behold, our comicbook shop doesn't even know about it.
IDW are septuple-Black folk for not doing a better job keeping the series in print.
My dad used to be into CB radio games in the UK and his handle was Lucky Luke, but he'd never actually read one of the comics and doesn't really know how he heard of him, but I've since got him all of them and what I could of Bluecoats and he loves them.
Because Frank Miller used the name inDKR and was in turn namedropped in the 89 Batman movie, anytime I mention it people think I'm talking about Batman 89.
They used it in the newer The Suicide Squad film too, didn't they?
If anything, it's the earlier volumes that are racist.
I find it clunkier than Tintin, though I like the settings and atmosphere. I wish it was written and drawn better, because there's nothing quite like it.
>wish it was written and drawn better, because there's nothing quite like it.
I think the art is fantastic, it feels like it was inked quickly, like a journal entry, and feels very fluid and alive. Sure it's unpolished and sparse, but I think that's a part of the appeal. There's more movement in how a bird is drawn in corto Maltese background than in most comic art.
It's more all over the place. Once past its first couple of rough voumes, Tintin hits its stride and only gets better and better. Corto Maltese was always more inconsistent but even at its worst is still a decent comic, and brilliant at its best.
Tintin was an adventure serial during the age of whizbang scifi and drippy gruesome horror in American comics, then his cartoon was aired on either HBO or Nickelodeon in a time period when were still a specialty channels for most of the country.
The REAL head scratcher is why this motherfricker is completely unknown in the States.
>why this motherfricker is completely unknown in the States
The stories are kinda shit, and the cowboy western thing went out of fashion in the US back in the 60s.
Lucky Luke began in the 40s. Meanwhile Gunsmoke and Bonaza lasted on until the early 70s. I'm pretty sure he would have done fine if they had bothered to bring him over.
For adults the westerns were prominently up to the 70s, but for kids the western trend was over by 1965. When Toy Story said how westerns entirely fell out of favor for more contemporary or futuristic themes they weren’t exaggerating
As far as I know Lucky Luke wasn’t translated into English until the 90s/2000s. Regardless it entirely missed the boat to get popular in the states because it wasn’t translated over and promoted for a long while and way past when a western comic like it could have made an impact
There were a few in the UK in the 70s and 80s, and he was included in some UK anthology comic magazines in the 60s.
>faster than his shadow
The Wild West is dozens of times more popular in Europe. This is why americanons are surprised to find out about Blueberry, the Bluecoats and even domestic artists like Stan Lynde. All of which are staples across Europe.
Heck we even have Wild West themed tabletop RPGs where you can get into a gunfight in a saloon with Lee van Cleef.
>Blueberry
>the Bluecoats
>Stan Lynde
Americanon here. I just had to google all three. Never heard of them until just now.
And just going by their Wikipedia entries, I'm sad to say that I'm not terribly interested in them. Am I missing out?
Nah, if they're not your stuff then don't worry about it. Euros just have intense rose-tinted glasses for the Wild West.
The volumes written by Goscinny are some of the best and funniest comic books ever. So underrated.
Spirou is better
That's the Marsupilami kid, right?
Marsupilami is a spin-off of Spirou, yes. However, I should mention that Spirou is usually an adult, but there is another popular spin-off of him as a kid.
Americans don't read comics.
Europa is the best place, he is well loved here.
Castiafore best woman.
Heres the complete history of Tintin from an American view:
started with TinTin the Animated series, Only aired on Nick Jr in America in the early 90s, and introduced the character as a Bland and Edgeless storybook Educational figure for Babies / commercials for the book series. The Series never really moved past that, and then later only became relevant again with the bad Spielberg Film, and when the internet noticed some of the later books felt quite racist.
This is the first time I heard people b***hing about how “racist” it is
Feels like a WEFuro trying to fill in what they think of Yanks more then actually what happened
Tintin in Congo was, admitly, what I would call a product of his time.
It's worth noting that even Herge himself was embarrassed by Tintin in the Congo.
Tintin's a hardcore motherfricker.
This page has been censored in the Netherlands. They were strangely more shocked by animal abuse than racism.
>They were strangely more shocked by animal abuse than racism
It's called not living in America
Are you sure?
is a quadrology:
tintin in soviets
tintin in congo
tintin in les Etat Unis
Titnin in China
>Titnin in China
This one is head and shoulders above the others though. I think it's when Hergé found the essence of the character and improved a lot from album to album until it reached the peak with the Secret of the Unicorn.
Man, there was nothing like being a kid and getting a new Tintin book.
There was a whole big kerfuffle in the UK about Tin Tin in the Congo being racist. Demands to remove it from sale and all that. It was resolved by chain stores announcing they would move it from the kids section to the adult graphic novels section.
The comics were translated back in the 70s, I know because my parents had them (Asterix too). I never watched a lot of TV as a kid, but I read those comics over and over.
But I always had a feeling it was a weird thing to know. No one at school ever talked about Tintin or Asterix, and my siblings had to bring me back books/games/shirts when they went on exchange trips to Europe. It wasn't a well-known thing.
The artstyle is too cute for American audiences. Americans like their heroes with huge muscles and square jaws.
I'm starting to filter out anyone who says "the west" because it's clear they're terminally weeb-brained.
I watched some Tintin cartoons when I was a kid back then in the late 90's and I always thought e was a rip-off of Jonny Quest.
So, the west is actually America? 'cause it's popular everywhere else.
Tintin looks way too old timey-wimey for grandpas.
>why am I a israelite, Cinemaphile?
Americans didn't take to the mix of exciting, pulpy adventures and cartoony characters. For us, adventure comics need to look gritty, realistic and serious and more caricatured people belong in comedies or stories for kids.
I love Tintin.
no waifus