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

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…