Week 2

What is the alleged connection between Hergé’s early comics and propaganda?

Due to Herge’s Employeer Le Pitit Vingtieme’s foriegn corrospodenent being the one to being the person to provide the familiarity and early understanding of Comics for the time period (1928), From there he went on to Found and Lead a Belgian Fascist ground called the Rexist (Mountfort, 2016). I feel we can assume from the way Leon inspired Herge in the use of the speech bubble aswell as introduced him to the latest transatlantic developments, That they were on good terms and with him being the one to provide comics for him as he started his own influences could have been transferred on to Herge. We can see this influence in his early works Tin Tin and the Congo being Belgian Colonist siding with the Racist depiction of the natives and that that it was in their best interest to be colonized i feel that this is a perfect example of Leons influence seeping into Herges Comics therefore spreading Leons rightwing propaganda whether by design of Herge himself or if he was just following what he had just assumed as normal we can clearly see the bias towards one side.

Much like how we hear that with news stations in america that they either lean one way or another and lately even in our own country we may not view it as propganda in the present but as time goes on and views change and more information comes to light we can then see that a lot of media past or present has a bias and one we may not see until either pointed out or our own personal views change.

References

Mountfort, P. (2016). Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture (Vol. 1). Auckland University of Technology. https://blackboard.aut.ac.nz/bbcswebdav/pid-5308427-dt-content-rid-12496222_4/institution/Papers/ENGL602/Publish/Mountfort%202016_Tintin%20as%20Spectacle%282%29.pdf