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((Short description|1988 English parody comic album))
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'''''The Adventures of Tintin: Breaking Free''''' is an [[anarchist]] [[parody]] of the popular ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]'' series of [[comics]]. An exercise in [[détournement]], the book was written under the pseudonym "J. Daniels" and published by [[Attack International]] in April of [[1988 in comics|1988]]<ref>[[Nicholas Lezard|Lezard, Nicholas]] (August 23, 1994). "Paperbacks: Round-up". ''[[The Guardian]]''. Pg. T10</ref> and then republished in [[1999 in comics|1999]]. It has recently been re-printed by anarchist publishers Freedom Press which includes for the first time Tintin’s earlier adventures during the [[Wapping dispute]] as told in The Scum, a 1986 pamphlet which was produced in solidarity with the printworkers.

The story features a number of characters based on those from the original series by [[Hergé]], notably [[Tintin (character)|Tintin]] himself and [[Captain Haddock]] (referred to only as 'the Captain' and depicted here as being Tintin's uncle), but not the original themes or plot. [[Snowy (character)|Snowy]] is featured on the cover—being especially visible on the first edition's cover—but not in the narrative. The story tracks Tintin's development from a disaffected, [[shoplifting]] youth to a [[revolutionary]] leader.<ref name="cox"/>

==Plot summary==
The comic opens with Tintin arriving at the Captain's [[apartment|flat]] in a fictional [[housing estate|estate]] somewhere in England. Tintin has recently been sacked for losing his temper and punching his boss and expresses frustration about being "pushed around" and "kicked around like a lump of dogshit." The Captain offers to get Tintin a job on a local [[building site]] where he works. As the story progresses, Tintin meets the local residents and his workmates and issues faced by the area, such as [[racism]], [[gentrification]] and general apathy from local government, are introduced.
[[File:Tintin-breaking free.JPG|thumb|left|A portion of the final page of ''Breaking Free'', featuring a mass demonstration escalating towards revolution. Each panel of the novel was copied from works of Tintin creator, [[Hergé]], with edited dialogue.]]
The anger felt by the working-class people of this town boils over when a construction worker, Joe Hill (apparently named after the [[Anarcho-syndicalism|anarcho-syndicalist]] labour organiser [[Joe Hill (activist)|of the same name]]) falls to his death due to poor safety standards at the local building site. Faced with insensitivity from their manager ("Had he been drinking?"), as well as apathy and condescension from their [[trade union]] official, the construction workers stage an unofficial, [[Wildcat strike action|wildcat strike]]. The builders demand better safety standards, improved wages, a change of management for the site and a large sum of money for the family of their dead workmate.

The strike escalates, with management refusing to concede any of the demands, doing under the table deals with union officials to bring in [[strikebreaker]]s. Meanwhile, the strike begins to spread to other local workplaces, becoming a symbol of class struggle, as well as a struggle for better short-term conditions. The workers become increasingly militant, turning to violent tactics and eventually firebombing the original building site. The strike begins to spread to other areas of the country without any official union involvement. Panicked, the UK government deals with strikers with increasing violence and repression, [[Demonstration (people)|demonstrations]] turn into [[riots]], and the Captain is arrested on false charges of [[conspiracy (crime)|conspiracy]].

As the story closes, there is a demonstration of half a million people in the town in which the events of the book unfold, several people have brought rifles and references are made to "strike committees" taking power in other areas of the country, the army being sent into Liverpool to "restore order," and similar unrest taking place around the world. The last page features the Captain, Tintin and the Captain's wife Mary in silhouette. Tintin holds an assault rifle above his head, while the others raise their fists. Below is written: "This Is Not The End / Only the beginning…"

==Reception==
Its initial release in 1989 caused a furor in the [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid newspapers]] in the [[United Kingdom]], who excoriated the comic for characterizing Tintin as a "[[Picketing (protest)|picket]] yob".<ref name="cox"/> In a 1990 review, ''[[The Times]]'' called the book "a naive and brutish strip-cartoon book for junior [[Private Eye#Newspaper parodies|Dave Sparts]]".<ref name="times">Staff (January 28, 1990). "Diary; Books". ''[[The Times]]''. Issue 8633.</ref> In 1994, ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote: "The interesting things about it are the way each frame is adapted from Hergé's originals, and the touching belief in the possibility of an upsurge in grassroots socialist radicalism".<ref>Lezard, Nicholas (August 23, 1994). "Paperbacks: Round-up". ''[[The Guardian]]''. Pg. T10</ref> That same year, [[Martin Rowson]], writing in ''[[The Independent]]'', described the work as a "sad little publication" and called the book's approach to copyright "another acute observation in what I take to be a brilliant post-modern parody of a situationist canard produced during a sit-in at [[Hornsey College of Art|Hornsey School of Art]] circa 1972."<ref name="independent">Rowson, Martin. (December 4, 1994). "Books for Christmas: Funny peculiar, I'd say; Humour". ''[[The Independent]]''. Pg. 42</ref> Gabriel Coxhead, writing in ''The Guardian'' in 2007, referred to the comic as "entertaining enough, if rather didactic", arguing that the "real interest is the artwork: each figure, every pose, has been assiduously copied from Hergé's own drawings, and recontextualised".<ref name="cox">Coxhead, Gabriel, "[http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/childrenandteens/story/0,,2074097,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10 Gabriel Coxhead on loving homages and obscene pastiches of Hergé's Tintin]", ''[[The Guardian]]'', 2007-05-07.</ref> Zoheb Mashiur, writing in ''[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]]'' in 2021, wrote, "In the best traditions of Tintin stories, J Daniels took the character and placed him at the heart of contemporary issues. [...] He's not fighting for the perpetuation of a status quo, or inserting himself into the business of hapless foreigners; Daniels' Tintin is protecting his own people at home and trying to carve out a better world for them."<ref>((Cite web|last=Mashiur|first=Zoheb|date=May 6, 2021|title=An anarchist retelling of Tintin|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/book-reviews/news/anarchist-retelling-tintin-2089161|access-date=2021-06-20|website=[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]]|language=en))</ref>

==Publication history==
* ((cite book |last=Daniels |first=J. |title=Breaking Free |location=London |publisher=Attack |year=1989 |isbn=0-9514261-0-9 |oclc=23606178 ))
* ((cite book |last=Daniels |first=J. |title=Breaking Free |location=London |publisher=Attack |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-9514261-0-4 ))
* ((cite book |last=Daniels |first=J. |title=Breaking Free |location=London |publisher=Freedom Press/EM Books|year=2011 |isbn=978-1-904491-17-0 ))

==See also==
* [[Anarchism and the arts]]
* [[Satire]]

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
* [http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/ tintinrevolution.free.fr], online versions of the comic in French and English

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