The Boston Globe has a quick article on the sanitisation of fairy tales in Disney films. Its not a new idea but as I begin thinking about Tintin and Asterix, I realise how like fairy tales they both are, in the original sense of the form.
Herge and Goscinny & Uderzo reimagine their version of Europe [...]
I’ve been reading Matthew Screech’s Master of the Ninth Art and he makes a valid point about Tintin and Asterix.
Hergé engaged with the rise of Fascism in The Black Isle and mainly in King Ottakar’s Sceptre. Screech argues that Black Isle is not political but the way that the villains are agitating through currency destabilasation [...]
Perhaps this ending was inevitable (Telegraph article & Guardian article). RDR have lost the case for the Harry Potter Lexicon to Rowling and Warner Bros Entertainment who has also been awarded statory damages of £3,850 ($6,750). Whilst they have options to carry on, I don’t think its in RDR’s best interests. RDR issued the following [...]