http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/sales-of-tintin-in-the-congo-leap-after-cre-attack/ The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:31:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/sales-of-tintin-in-the-congo-leap-after-cre-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-92276 The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » Tintin in the Congo controversy rumbles on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:40:56 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=4616#comment-92276 [...] You may recall a few weeks back that the Commission for Racial Equality in the UK called for Tintin in the Congo to be banned, while Wim reported that back in Hergé’s homeland of Belgium a Congolese student filed an official complaint to try and have the book banned. Now Publisher’s Weekly notes that in the US Little Brown has very quietly pulled an edition of Tintin in the Congo from their autumn schedule and also from a proposed box set of Tintin albums. LB didn’t comment on the cancellation of the single album but did comment on pulling it from the box set: “Given the controversy surrounding the Congo title, we felt including it in the box set would eclipse the true intention of the collection, which is to showcase Hergé’s extraordinary art and his remarkable contribution to the graphic arts.” [...] [...] You may recall a few weeks back that the Commission for Racial Equality in the UK called for Tintin in the Congo to be banned, while Wim reported that back in Hergé’s homeland of Belgium a Congolese student filed an official complaint to try and have the book banned. Now Publisher’s Weekly notes that in the US Little Brown has very quietly pulled an edition of Tintin in the Congo from their autumn schedule and also from a proposed box set of Tintin albums. LB didn’t comment on the cancellation of the single album but did comment on pulling it from the box set: “Given the controversy surrounding the Congo title, we felt including it in the box set would eclipse the true intention of the collection, which is to showcase Hergé’s extraordinary art and his remarkable contribution to the graphic arts.” [...]

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