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L'oreille cassée (1937) caricatures news items whose “exotic” aspect grabbed the attention of the mainstream press : the Chaco war between Paraguay and Bolivia, one of the cruelest and most bloody wars of the years 1932-1935 ; the career of Basil Zaharoff, an arms merchant who died in Monaco in 1936 ; the disappearance in South America of the explorer Percy Fawcett in the 1920s, etc. This article examines the concept of “tintinization” and the manner in which Hergé filtered and reshaped these events within the world and ethos of Tintin. They are compared with other comic-adventures describing the jungles, mysteries and pronunciamientos of Latin America, by writers who preceded Hergé in this genre.
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