@ Miraculix

[magnet]

Originally Posted by Miraculix

now surrender!

Sorry I'm from a little village populated by some irreducibles Gallics which resists again and always to the invader.

[Leadoffhitter]

Originally Posted by magnet

There is no truth to that rumor. Tintin is a Belgian "Bande Dessinée" (French-written comics) by Hergé and is not fascist by any means (though the first tomes held racial/anti-communist views common to the era, late nineties/early thirties).

Astérix, on the other side, started 30 years later and is a French "Bande Dessinée" much more into humour. It was indeed written by the "leftist" Goscinny with drawings by Uderzo (until Goscinny died, then Uderzo did both since 1980 and Astérix now sucks).

There is no competition between Astérix and Tintin other than the fact that they're probably the most well-known bandes dessinées.

Tintin' vision of the world belongs to an occidental and colonialist way of thinking (the nice white man saving everybody around in some continuous safari around a world that needs to be saved by him); Asterix is more the resistance of the own culture in front of the invader's one. The force of the group even if it seems weaker based on close links of membership to the community.

So Asterix rocks and Tintin... Well, Tintin is part of the History.

Thanks for this post, I love to talk about comics.