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 and not directly confronting their enemies. Ottakar’s Sceptre directly deals with the Anschluss and way that Fascism was moving across Europe.
Yet he keeps Tintin largely politically neutral. Having been under Fascist direction for the first few books, Hergé allows his central character to grow and shine but comments quietly on the events around him. Yet his world is distinctly lacking in a central, defined location and deliberately so.
Asterix, as I’ve thought before, at some level rationalises the French response to the German occupation but again Goscinny and Uderzo set the world of Asterix outside of time and space. Like Tintin, it moves away from direct confrontation and reimagines itself for its readers.