Racist Tintin to enter public domain in 2025; you'll have to wait a while longer for woke Tintin

Bequiffed cartoon reporter Tintin is entering the U.S. public domain next month, but only the incarnation found in early publications, badly-drawn and racist as they were. The character would only take his distinctive modern form in later works, as Hergé refined his skills and upended his politics: in the 1940s, he redrew most of his earliest works to bring them up to the quality of his later ligne claire style. — Read the rest

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