Reviews for The Adventures of Tintin in the Congo: Reporter for Le Petit Vingtieme (Tintin Series)

The average rating for The Adventures of Tintin in the Congo: Reporter for Le Petit Vingtieme (Tintin Series) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-06-02 00:00:00 Klmlk Mlkm Tintin au Congo = Tintin in the Congo (Tintin #2), Hergé Tintin in the Congo (French: Tintin au Congo) is the second volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from May 1930 to June 1931 before being published in a collected volume by Éditions de Petit Vingtième in 1931. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are sent to the Belgian Congo to report on events in the country. Amid various encounters with the native Congolese people and wild animals, Tintin unearths a criminal diamond smuggling operation run by the American gangster Al Capone. تاریخ نخستین خوانش: سال 2000 میلادی عنوان: تن تن در کنگو - کتاب دوم؛ نویسنده: هرژه؛ مترجم: خسرو سمیعی؛ تهران، یونیورسال، 1354، در 62 ص، موضوع: داستانهای گرافیکی و فکاهی نویسندگان - سده 20 م ا. شربیانی

Review # 2 was written on 2010-02-04 00:00:00 Robert Passloff Ah, the infamous Tintin Au Congo. This is the edition that is widely available these days, i.e. the redrawn, coloured and "sanitized" version. Comparisons between the original art and the art on display here shows that originally it didn't look much different than Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, if perhaps slightly better. In fact, Tintin looks like something from a Black & White Quick & Flupke story in the original version (unsurprisingly, since it is by the same author / artist). Why bring this up? Because, frankly, I believe that the earlier art suits the story better. This isn't that much different from In the Land of the Soviets as far as plot development and ham handed comedy is concerned, but it looks like one of the later books, which can create one heck of a false expectation. This book has received a lot of bad press, and has not been published for many years as a result. The following excerpt is from the introduction of this edition: In his portrayal of the Belgian Congo, the young Hergé reflects the colonial attitudes of the time. [the book was first published in book form in 1931, and presented as a strip even before then] He himself admitted that he depicted the African people according to the bourgeois, paternalistic stereotypes of the period - an interpretation that some of today's readers may find offensive. The same could be said of his treatment of big-game hunting. The same could also be said of many other (and in some cases iconic) novels, such as King Solomon's Mines and Jock of the Bushveld. Again: I suggest reading Tintin in the Congo with a companion book like Tintin: Hergé and His Creation. The author himself wasn't fond of this book, and especially of the treatment of wildlife. So there it is. The first two Tintin books are important for their historical significance in the sense that Hergé was pioneering the European comic style that we take for granted today, but they are far from his best work. Thankfully, after this things start improving greatly. Hergé was about to "grow up". As with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets giving this more than three would not make sense given the greatness of what was to come.