Comment by fractallyte
6 days ago
I love this, but I feel sad that there's minimal presence of women or girls anywhere - it's almost entirely male.
Are women not expected to explore, discover the world, enjoy adventures, solve mysteries?
(I don't want to complain; it's just an observation.)
It started in the 1930s, so I think the answer is no, they weren't expected to do those things. I expect it would have been very difficult to get hired as a reporter (Tintin's profession) as a women in the 1930s. Even the detectives of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers were men, despite the authors being women.
But, you're in luck, there's Yoko Tsuno [1], also by a Belgian, I believe, but started 40 years later.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Tsuno
You might enjoy the Japanese TV series Miss Sherlock which uses female leads for a Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock style adventure series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Sherlock