Paul and Virginia with the long-eared Indians
Paul and Virginia with the Long-eared Indians (original title: Popol et Virginie au pays des Lapinos ) is a comic story by the Belgian comic artist Hergé . This was published in August 1934 in the newspaper Le Petit Vingtième . The characters in the comic are animals who act like humans. Paul and Virginia look like teddy bears.
action
The hatter Paul and his wife Virginia move to the Wild West because Paul thinks business would be better there. But there is still no customer. You advertise with posters and a customer comes along. It's a long-eared Indian. The long-eared Indians have their camp nearby. More and more of them are coming, but as a result the business of the Indian who makes the headdress is no longer going well. A war breaks out between the Indians and Paul and Virginia. After a few days, Paul and Virginia win. But the Indians do not want to submit. Virginia is kidnapped. Paul tries to save her. The first time he accidentally takes a long-eared Indian with him because she wears the same clothes as Virginia. The rescue succeeds the second time. The two ride away with their horse.
After a while they come to a river where Paul finds gold. But the evil Bully Bull takes the two prisoners. He ties Paul to a tree. He takes Virginia as a slave. Paul can free himself and save Virginia. Bully Bull goes to jail, but can later free himself. There is a conflict between Bully Bull and Paul and Virginia on a cliff. All three crash. But someone is downstairs and calls the fire department. All three can be saved at the last second.
The next day Paul and Virginia are honored for catching the evil criminal Bully Bull.
history
Already at the end of the 1920s Hergé drew a similar story with the title Tim the Squirrel - Hero of the Wild West (French Tim l'Ecoureuil - Héros du Far-West ).
There were other very similar stories later, such as Tom et Millie .
There were then no further animal stories from Hergé. He later gave one reason himself.
“I then dropped the idea. Why should you let animals do things that humans do. "
Remarks
On one of the pictures Hergé forgot to draw the squirrel's tail at the squirrel “Tim”.
literature
- Hergé , Paul, and Virginia with the Long-Eared Indians , Carlsen Studio , 1992
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Appendix of the comic "Paul and Virginia with the Long-eared Indians"