The first collected Adventures of Tintin book, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets from 1929 is scarce and it remained out of print for many years. The phenomenal price achieved for this volume at auction is a testament to the importance of Tintin, particularly in the French and Belgian markets. (I'm an American and my first and only encounter with Tintin was the Spielberg movie. I liked it, by the way.)
The book may be anticommunist propaganda and no doubt is historically inaccurate, but, hey, it's a comic book. While I haven't read it, it's flaws seem trivial, especially given the ubiquitous falsehoods of Soviet propaganda and the Communist Party's systematic denial of the awful realities of life under the brutal Joseph Stalin. And this book did get the whole Tintin thing started, after all.
Oh, yeah. Happy May Day, Comrades.
The book may be anticommunist propaganda and no doubt is historically inaccurate, but, hey, it's a comic book. While I haven't read it, it's flaws seem trivial, especially given the ubiquitous falsehoods of Soviet propaganda and the Communist Party's systematic denial of the awful realities of life under the brutal Joseph Stalin. And this book did get the whole Tintin thing started, after all.
Oh, yeah. Happy May Day, Comrades.
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| Hergé, Les Aventures de Tintin au pays des Soviets, No. 477/500, 1929 |
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| Hergé, Les Aventures de Tintin au pays des Soviets, No. 477/500, 1929 |
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