The first two Tintin books (or more accurately the first two collections of all the little newspaper comic strips the story was made up of over the course of a year or so) were some of the most disgusting colonialist apologist stuff I've ever read (they were called 'Tintin in the Land of the Soviets' and 'Tintin in the Congo' so you can guess how bad they were) and the second one was especially bad since it directly and repeatedly puts forward justifications for the Belgian occupation of the Congo.
Later they were heavily rewritten for the book releases (though it's worth noting that even as a child reading the English version of the rewrite of the second one I still thought it was pretty racist) as Herge tried to rehabilitate his image and pivot Tintin towards being a symbol of fighting injustice everywhere, as opposed to being a genocide apologist.
The rewrite of the second book features the standard racist thing of depicting black people with massive red lips and coal black skin, and such scenes as: Tintin threatening to beat a Congolese man because he won't help lift up a train (that Tintin derailed) while Tintin just stands back and watches, Tintin convincing a native tribe that he's a magical witch doctor by using the wonders of science to stop them from harming him, one of said native tribe saying "they say in Europe all white men are as brave and clever as Witch Doctor Tintin" on the last page, Tintin meets a 'civilised' white Congolese settler who's acting as a missionary to spread the word of god to the Congolese people and the missionary talks about them as if they're children or dumb animals and this is presented entirely uncritically, a rival tribe to the one that Tintin becomes the witch doctor to have a king who is depicted as fat, lazy and callous and the members of the rival tribe venerate Tintin when he deposes their King, the Congolese people are consistently depicted as being simple and falling for any trick the main (white) villains play on them, etcetera, etcetera (some of this info may be slightly wrong it's been a while since I read the book because I couldn't bring myself to read it again).
The first two Tintin books (or more accurately the first two collections of all the little newspaper comic strips the story was made up of over the course of a year or so) were some of the most disgusting colonialist apologist stuff I've ever read (they were called 'Tintin in the Land of the Soviets' and 'Tintin in the Congo' so you can guess how bad they were) and the second one was especially bad since it directly and repeatedly puts forward justifications for the Belgian occupation of the Congo.
Later they were heavily rewritten for the book releases (though it's worth noting that even as a child reading the English version of the rewrite of the second one I still thought it was pretty racist) as Herge tried to rehabilitate his image and pivot Tintin towards being a symbol of fighting injustice everywhere, as opposed to being a genocide apologist.
The rewrite of the second book features the standard racist thing of depicting black people with massive red lips and coal black skin, and such scenes as: Tintin threatening to beat a Congolese man because he won't help lift up a train (that Tintin derailed) while Tintin just stands back and watches, Tintin convincing a native tribe that he's a magical witch doctor by using the wonders of science to stop them from harming him, one of said native tribe saying "they say in Europe all white men are as brave and clever as Witch Doctor Tintin" on the last page, Tintin meets a 'civilised' white Congolese settler who's acting as a missionary to spread the word of god to the Congolese people and the missionary talks about them as if they're children or dumb animals and this is presented entirely uncritically, a rival tribe to the one that Tintin becomes the witch doctor to have a king who is depicted as fat, lazy and callous and the members of the rival tribe venerate Tintin when he deposes their King, the Congolese people are consistently depicted as being simple and falling for any trick the main (white) villains play on them, etcetera, etcetera (some of this info may be slightly wrong it's been a while since I read the book because I couldn't bring myself to read it again).
Also Herge was a Nazi collaborator.
Welp, if I ever see my Tintin books again I may just have to chuck them in the bin (what is it with people who speak French being like this?).