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With all the attention has come some notoriety. As faithfully drawn as Hergé’s panels were—he spent months researching locations—some of the earlier works are sullied by crude stereotypes, most notably Tintin in the Congo (1931). Congo was the subject of renewed controversy in the U.K. last summer, prompting some booksellers to move it to their adult section. For his part, Hergé himself came to be embarrassed by the volume, which, aside from being hopelessly dated, is the weakest of the Tintin stories, and hardly representative of the series.
Also in the News The Hergé Museum is currently under construction in the Belgian town of Louvain-la-Neuve, 18 miles south of Brussels.
It’s slated to be complete in 2009—the organizers are aiming to open on May 22, Hergé’s birthday.
For more on Tintin, see tintin.com
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