Associated Press released this on Saturday:LONDON (AFP) - Sales of a Tintin comic book have rocketed since the Commission for Racial Equality claimed it was racist, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Sales of "Tintin in the Congo" have shot up by 3,800 percent after the CRE watchdog claimed it contained potentially highly offensive material, said The Daily Telegraph.
Sales of "Tintin in the Congo" have shot up by 3,800 percent after the CRE watchdog claimed it contained potentially highly offensive material, said The Daily Telegraph.
The comic has reached number eight on Internet retailer Amazon's most popular books list, the broadsheet reported.
It's ironic, isn't it?
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Ironically (sort of) Tintin figurines are a huge souvenir item in Congo: wooden airplanes, statues, paintings of the over (where you can get your name to replace "tintin"). If I had a Congolese franc for everytime someone tried to force a wooden tintin on me, I'd probably have a hundred francs. which would be ten cents.
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