Tintin Volume II

Just a little history if you please ... 1930, Congo was an Eldorado for Belgium. This African territory eighty times larger than the colonizing country had an extremely rich subsoil. At that time, the area lacked manpower. Hergé had to advertise for this occupied country. The story began June 5, 1930 in The Little Twentieth and ended June 11, 1931. The album was first published by Editions du Petit Twentieth then he was taken later by Casterman Editions which assured the publication of the Adventures of Tintin exclusively.

For the resumption of the album in 1946, Hergé redrew adventure. He then put the color in the reduced 110 pages and 62 boards changed the colonialist ideology of the album. Thus, the geographical and historical lesson Tintin overlooked "Your homeland, Belgium" found himself replaced by a math lesson. Hergé also redrew almost all images, affina sets, gave back the clarity and cutting dialogues altered to make them more vivid. Hergé later claimed that the creation of Tintin in the Congo, as for Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, he lived in a prejudiced environment. This is also the feature of Tintin in the Congo: The album is filled with stereotypes of vision of Congo by Europeans at that time.