Tintin drawing fetches record at auction

Mon, Jun 4, 2012

Comics and cartoons

The BBC reports that among a sale of various Tintin related items and memorabilia an ink and gouache drawing for Tintin in America by the great Hergé fetched a record sum of 1.3 million Euros at auction. According to the BBC report among the other items at the sale there was supposedly a copy of Tintin : Explorers on the Moon signed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

 

(screen grab from the BBC report)

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