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The Adventures of Tintin (vol. 1): In the Land of the Soviets by Hergé (1930). Translated by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner. Little Brown, 2007. 144p., $10.99. The Adventures of Tintin (vol. 24): Tintin and Alph-Art by Hergé (1986). Translated by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner. Little Brown, 2007. 62p., $10.99. In honor of the [...]

Tom McCarthy in his Tintin and the Secret of Literature refers to this panel from Hergé’s The Castafiore Emerald, and I just had to share it. Just another one of those simple but brilliant panels by Hergé.

Tintin and the Secret of Literature by Tom McCarthy. Granta, 2006. 14.99 pounds (UK only as far as I can tell) A rare book about Tintin in English, Tom McCarthy’s Tintin and the Secret of Literature so far is a UK only publication (you can order it from Granta’s website though), a 200 page hardcover [...]

Since this is Tintin week, I thought I’d share a few panels from a fantastic sequence in Hergé’s The Castafiore Emerald. Calculus, the hard of hearing inventor, has created a color television (seemingly unconcerned that such an item was already invented at the time as one of his friends points out). Hergé’s love of abstract [...]

Les Bijoux Ravis by Benoit Peeters. Bruxelles: Magic Strip, 1984. (Out of Print and quite rare) I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the more I read Tintin, the more I appreciate it. In a similar way to Peanuts, what at first appears rather slight, takes on greater significance through repetition and careful [...]

Hergé. Le Lotus Bleu (1936). Casterman: 1974. The comic book adventures of Tintin are probably as much a part of French culture as those of Superman or Charlie Brown in the United States. Created by the Belgian artist Hergé in 1929, Tintin appeared in comics and books through the mid 70′s (also films and radio [...]