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

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Dec 17, 2024
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Tintin in his original form

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…

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