Tag Archive | "Tintin"

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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Tintin in the Congo – in the raw!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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Benjamin at French comics site BoDoi points us to this fun take of the (somewhat controversial these days for its period portrayal of Africans and colonial attitudes) Tintin in the Congo. Except this Tumblr offering is Tintin au Congo a Poil (basically Tintin in the Congo in the nude, or in the raw). Yes, folks, [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake….

Sunday, February 6, 2011

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Pretty things from the Internet what I have found or had thrust under my online nose this week…… More incredible Alex Toth artwork…. just a masterclass of intelligent, visual design and perfection in storytelling. From Red Circle Sorcery #9 (1974). The full strip is over at Alison Sampson’s Space In Text. Jill Thompson does Archie. [...]

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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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From our continental correspondent: the Man Who Would Be Tintin

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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It was probably no more than a small article in the paper, buried in between the rest of the obituaries of that day: on November 26th of 2010, Danish actor Palle Huld died at the age of 98 in Copenhagen.  Still, the news should have rung a bell among comic afficionadoes worldwide, and Tintinologists more [...]

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Tintin for the holidays….

Sunday, December 26, 2010

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At the Neon Monster site, Joe Keatinge has been asking artists to do their own interpetations of the Tintin comics in advance of the upcoming Tintin movie. The first two parts (pt 1, pt 2) have guest artists reinterpreting Herge, whilst part three is a conversation with artist Brandon Graham. The idea was so successful that Joe’s going to open the [...]

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Tintin in England

Thursday, December 2, 2010

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This Tintin in England mock-up, where he is partaking of the fine old native tradition of football accompanied by lashings of the old ultra-violence, is by Dran and comes via Superpunch by way of Jay Taylor – have a look at the large size before someone issues a copyright takedown notice! I especially like the [...]

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Art for art’s sake!

Saturday, November 27, 2010

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A few things that looked lovely to my tired, ill eyes this week…… (From his Flickrstream; Luke Pearson‘s fan art of Marc Ellerby‘s Chloe Noonan) (Via Mark Kardwell – Simon Gane‘s Lemmy on horseback) (Via Pete Ashton on Twitter – a brilliant, and as gorgeous as you may expect, Moebius Tumblr blog – The Airtight [...]

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Blisterin’ blue barnacles!

Monday, November 1, 2010

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Empire has a pic of Captain Haddock from the forthoming Jackson-Spielberg Tintin movie! (thanks to Gerry Alanguilan for the link)

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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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