The Adventures of Tintin - Tintin in America

The story is set in 1931, and the Great Depression began with the US stock market crash of 1929 and continued until World War II.

Tintin even goes so far as to arrest the famous gangster, the embodiment of American organized crime.

Hergé had been passionate about Native American culture since his youth in the scouts. He wanted his hero to meet Native Americans, which he himself was only able to do in 1971. Moreover, this tribe was called "Toes-Ficelés" in the first edition.

The Natives are offered much less.

Rustling cattle is the act of stealing cattle.

The boxes that make up this scene show very well the influence of cinema on Hergé's drawing, which transcribed the speed and the effects of the camera in his boards.

The presence of a castle in the United States may seem surprising, but it is in fact a fake castle. Hergé only developed the thought of Georges Duhamel, who described the United States as a country where "everything is false", in his story "Scenes from the future life" of 1930. This work is the main source of Hergé's inspiration for this story.

This is a parody of the American industrial model and in particular of the factories producing processed foods. The Slift factory caricatures the company Swift & Co, whose slaughterhouses were actually located in Chicago.

In America, "everything is fake" (see comment about the castle). Here, even the dumbbells are, which will save Tintin's life once again.