Tag Archive | "Hergé"

From our continental correspondent – Translation, thanks : The Adventures of Hergé‏

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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As always, this year’s Fall List from Drawn And Quarterly is a joy in and of itself (new Clowes, Seth, Tomine, Beaton and Barry collected! More Nipper!), but there’s one book that I would like to draw your attention to in particular : The Adventures of Hergé, by Jose-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc Fromental and Stanislas Barthelemy. [...]

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News from the Tintinologists

Thursday, June 23, 2011

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With the Spielberg-Jackson movie slated for the end of the year, it would seem that all Tintin news these days is limited to standard American marketing and PR style fodder (this just in : Weta is preparing a series of limited-edition statuettes based on the movie’s characters, with Haddock being the first in line). Let’s [...]

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From our continental correspondent – The Tintin Movie is getting real

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

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All of a sudden, three different posters for the upcoming Tintin movie have popped up all over the internet.  The above one, which was spotlighted by Slashfilm, is the moodiest of them all and, in my opinion, the best, movie-wise.  It shows enough mystery to have people who don’t really know who Tintin is get [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Alph-art finally in English

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Fans are a strange and curious lot.  They never have enough of a good thing, and if necessary, they’ll go and create their own missing story featuring their favourite characters.  Tintin fans are no different – you’d think that 22 books (23 if you count The Soviets) would suffice, especially with at least half of [...]

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Herge Museum director quits

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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The Belgian economic weekly Trends/Tendances reports that Laurent de Froberville has resigned from his job as director of the Hergé Museum in Louvain-La-Neuve on New Year’s eve.  De Froberville takes this decision a mere three years after his appointment and only a year and a half after the museum opened its doors.  De Froberville has [...]

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Tintin – Breaking Free

Saturday, January 15, 2011

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Warren Ellis posted this earlier in the week, so everyone’s probably seen it now, but just in case…. The Adventures Of Tintin: Breaking Free was an underground publication published in ’88 and again in ’99. I remember it from ’99 with that great cover from above and reading it again I’m pleased at how well [...]

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Tintin is a radio buff

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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British Writer Tom McCarthy‘s latest novel, which is simply called C, was longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, and on that occasion Radio 4′s Front Row had an interview with him that made it to their weekly podcast (warning, 22 Mb MP3 download). C is a strange book, a combination of explicit modernism and [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Tintin in court

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Even though I can’t honestly say that this story is currently even remotely on the radar in my country, what with the current crisis in government (join the club! – Joe) and the child abuse scandal that’s rocking the Catholic Church, it seems to be somehow on the boards in the rest of the world, [...]

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Fans of Tintin cry foul

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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Wim points us to a long and interesting article on the FT by Stanley Pignal on what is often a touchy subject for readers and for the company involved – how Fanny Vlamynck, Hergé’s widow,  and her partner Nick Rodwell have managed Hergé’s legacy through Moulinsart. Wim has reported before on the controversy Moulinsart has [...]

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Guy Dessicy, the last witness : Hergé, Leblanc and Abdallah

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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74 years ago he got to know Hergé, the beginning of a lifelong friendship which would last up to the deathbed of the Brussels artist. That meeting was also the beginning of an impressive career in the shadow of virtually all major Belgian comic artists of the twentieth century. With the help of Hec Leemans, [...]

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Now we are Five…

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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It’s hard for me to believe but today marks the fifth birthday of the Forbidden Planet blog. It’s a peculiar feeling because in one way it doesn’t really feel like it’s been five years since I posted that first blog item but on the other hand it also feels like we’ve been a part of [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Nick Rodwell’s Calculated Affair?

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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Just what is the deal with Nick Rodwell, husband to the woman who used to be married to Hergé (deceased), the creator of Tintin?  Why do I need to use such an awkward phrasing, instead of just saying that he’s the second husband of Hergé’s widow?  Because I would rather not have my private life, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Tintin first on the moon after all

Friday, July 24, 2009

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As a afterthought to the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11′s moon landing over the weekend, at last the Vatican’s daily newspaper Osservatore Romano has given credit where credit is due.  In an article in its weekend edition, it wrote that Neil Armstrong “was not the first human to tread on the surface of the moon,” [...]

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Magritte meet Hergé

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Via Wim’s Ephemerist comes this clever piece by Karl Meersman for Focus magazine, celebrating two very different but famous and celebrated artists who have both had museums dedicated to their work open in Belgium recently, René Magritte and Hergé.

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From our continental correspondent – parasitical parodies!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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When it comes to rights (and wrongs), the relationship between Moulinsart and the rest of the world has always been troublesome.  When somebody appropriates an aspect of the works of the late Hergé, however small and for whatever reason, the current owners of the rights to said works are quick to cry foul, throwing around [...]

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