Casterman, the publisher of the Tintin comics, thinks it is a good idea to add an appendix to the album ‘Tintin in Congo’ with some context about the creation of Hergé’s work in the early 1930s.
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Brussels MP Kalvin Soiresse Njall was amazed at the RTBF about that ‘Tintin in Congo’ has not been discussed in the racism debate in our country in recent weeks. The politician with Togolese roots is not asking to ban the strip, which would be ‘counterproductive’, ‘but we absolutely have to contextualize it’.
“It is incomprehensible that in the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon countries Moulinsart (the company that manages Hergé’s rights to work, ed.) Accepts that and not in Belgium,” said the Member of Parliament.
Soiresse, also founder of the collective ‘Mémoire coloniale’, thinks for example of a ‘drawing and small text with a warning’ at the beginning of the strip. He also made such an appeal a year ago when he was invited by Moulinsart to a debate following a reissue of ‘Tintin in Congo’.
Woman Hergé
Publisher Casterman can be found for contextualization. That was stated by director Simon Casterman at the end of 2018, when the strip was re-released in color. He does state that ‘the addition of a note or a foreword of this nature affects the moral rights of the author. In this case, therefore, such an addition is not only the competence of Casterman, but also that of Ms Rodwell (Fanny Rodwell-Vlamynck, Hergé’s second wife, ed.) In her capacity as entitled to the work of Hergé, who is opposed to it. “.
Moulinsart did not comment on Sunday.
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