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The comic strip "Tiger Joe" published in the beginning of the 1950's into the supplement for children of the catholic newspaper La Libre Belgique offered a good example of cultural transfers. The two authors, Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon, were inspired by a famous american comic strip : "Jungle Jim" by Alex Raymond. But they widely adapted their story to the medium and to the focused public. Thus, if the heroes names and physicals were directly inspired by hollywood movies, the situations were perfectly appropriate with the colonial and catholic belgian propaganda. For instance, as in Tintin au Congo, it was a dynamic missionary that symbolised the "civilizating" action in central Africa.But, read later and in an unbelgian context, this comic strip should be received differently. "Tiger joe" was so presented in the french hebdomadaire Pilote more like an exotic story than a colonial one