Talk:Tintin in America

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Menachem Begin?!

I have altered some text which read: "A Rabbi whom some have identified as Menachem Begin appears briefly in Tintin in the Land of Black Gold, but his name is not given and he appears only very briefly. He only appeared in the early editions of the graphic novel and vanished in later ones (as the story was moved from historical Palestine to fictitious Khemed)."

Menachem Begin was not religious, let alone a religious scholar, and the association of him with a "Rabbi" (really just a member of Irgun in the original version of Land of Black Gold) is bizarre, to say the least. Particularly because there is no physical resemblance (the character is bearded and wearing a kippa. Begin's appearance was clean-shaven, hatless and Western). I have reworded it, but in reality I don't think anyone has claimed that the character was Begin, though apparently occupying a similar position. 192.197.178.2 (talk) 22:21, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

History/Background section moved to main series article

The History/Background section of this article contains well-written text that is truly the history of the entire Adventures of Tintin series. For that reason, this section has been removed from this article and moved to the The Adventures of Tintin article. See the talk page there. —Prhartcom (talk) 16:37, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Tintin in America/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: J Milburn (talk · contribs) 11:32, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

At first glance, looks to be an interesting, well-researched topic. Thoughts to follow soon. J Milburn (talk) 11:32, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

• "The comic was adapted for a 1991 episode of the Ellipse/Nelvana animated Tintin series." How about "The comic was adapted for a 1991 episode of the Ellipse/Nelvana animated series The Adventures of Tintin."?
  • Agreed, and done! Midnightblueowl (talk) 14:17, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
• Just a thought: in the Blackfoot language, a wigwam is called a ookóówa, apparently. Not sure how best to treat this, but it seems a little off to talk about the comic's cultural sensitivity while using the wrong word? I don't know- I know the whole wigwam/tipi thing can come across as a little colonial.
  • I had similar thoughts myself, but in the end I just went with what the source itself said in the text, which was "wigwam". Certainly, for the caption depicting the 1930s Blackfoot settlement, we could refer to them as ookóówa. Midnightblueowl (talk) 14:17, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
• "and in May 1932 recalled to military service for 2 weeks." was recalled, surely?
• "and also deleted the two Chinese hoodlums who tried to eat Snowy." You haven't mentioned this yet- perhaps remove "the"?
• "Slift factories was renamed Grynd Corp." Slift Factories, perhaps?
  • I think it was simply "Slift"; I've clarified this in the text. Midnightblueowl (talk) 14:17, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
• "American publishers of Tintin in America were uneasy regarding the scene on page 29, in which the Blackfeet are forcibly removed from their land by the U.S. army," I don't think the page number's important. How about "American publishers of Tintin in America were uneasy regarding the scene in which the Blackfeet are forcibly removed from their land by the U.S. army,"?
  • Agreed! Midnightblueowl (talk) 14:17, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
• "and also thought that the incompetent hotel detective was an anticipation of the Thom(p)sons, while the drunken sheriff" These characters haven't been mentioned yet
• "in the scenes where Tintin is entering the underground tunnel," Again, you can't really say "the scenes" when you have not introduced those scenes prior

Sources are completely appropriate, and it answers all the questions. I tweaked one of the non-free use rationales, but the only criticism I could give on that front is that the non-free images are perhaps a little big. I made a couple of small tweaks concerning commas/grammar. I'll be happy to promote once you've taken a look at my comments above, and, frankly, unless you've missed some key sources, this looks about ready for FAC. Great work. J Milburn (talk) 12:12, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for this J! Much appreciated! I'm still waiting on FA peeps to look over the article for Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, but I do hope to ultimately see this reach FA status. Midnightblueowl (talk) 14:17, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Happy with the fixes and clarifications, I'll just go ahead and promote this. I'll also take a look at Soviets if I get time, and perhaps try and rustle up some other reviewers who may be interested... J Milburn (talk) 14:59, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Billy Bolivar

I recently came across this webpage [1], which says that Billy Bolivar was named "Bolivar (Hippolyte)" in the 1932 black-and-white version of the comic. The webpage is from a site called Tintinologist.org, which doesn't appear to be a "reliable source" by Wikipedia standards.

Googling "Billy Bolivar" and "Hippolyte" together doesn't yield any additional results, aside from a blog or two.

Do any of the off-line scholarly sources (Farr, Lofficier, etc.) mention Bolivar at all? I've recently added a sentence about Bolivar being inspired by the German strongman Arthur Saxon, but I can't find a good place for the sentence, so it would be nice to have more information to work with. --Jpcase (talk) 19:57, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Here's the original version. Opera hat (talk) 22:43, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Conversation between Snowy and Tintin

It's a factual error that this was the last story in which Tintin could understand Snowy. The original release of The Cigars of the Pharaoh starts with a conversation between the two. 84.156.209.58 (talk) 22:17, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Name other real life person

It would be great if the other real life person to have been mentioned in Tintin could be named. 84.156.209.58 (talk) 22:18, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Al Capone

The article currently cites the Lofficiers when it states that Capone "was the only real-life figure to appear as a character in the series." I think those authors are mistaken: Yosuke Matsuoka appears (though he is not named) giving the speech that withdrew Japan from the League of Nations in The Blue Lotus. Opera hat (talk) 13:22, 13 June 2021 (UTC)