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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
It's not clear where else they might have shelved it. But I suspect they did not flip through it. It was, after all, a comic strip.
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Well, before the Graphic Novels started getting a separate section of their own, comic strips and GNs and the like were filed in the 740s or so of the Dewey system, under "Art" in the adult/general non-fiction section instead of the "j"-marked junior children's section for the 5-11 set.
Some of it still is, as they never bothered to move the older stuff like the political cartoons and the Cathy/Garfield collections out, and the stuff considered too "graphic" to go under the YA-shelved GN section of that particular branch.
But you're right, they probably never looked.
Although that particular Tintin album is fairly notorious in Francophone circles because Hergé revised it a couple of times after the original over-the-top institutional colonial racism and violence were no longer socially acceptable and he was embarrassed that he'd ever been so ignorant as to script/draw it, but the popular demand kept people printing pirate versions, so he finally gave in to pressure to make an official one to satisfy the market.
Even then, still got complaints for the toned down version, which is sold these days with a special "old stuff from the unenlightened days, please forgive appalling attitudes, NOT FOR KIDS" note in the front in the English translation sold in the UK, and some guy in Belgium wants a similar warning sticker put on the French version now.
Ironically, it's apparently the most popular Tintin album EVER, throughout most parts of Africa. Especially in Congo itself.