To me Tintin was a favorit bedtime story… Tintin and Carl Bark’s Duck stories. And perhaps, once in a wihle, a few old Superman adventures too.

And so, I find those classic Donald Duck stories oddly equal (but obviously very american) to Tintin. The connection is probably not very tangible at all. I think it has more to do with the impression they leave.

Both are light and have somewhat similar humor mixed with excitment. Captain Haddock’s personality is not too unlike the one of Donald’s either.

I hope you by now have manged to read the other Tintin adventures as well as the Jo, Zette and Jocko ones.

Oh and in some other post you drew a connection between Herge’s works and certain manga. I too thought alot of manga/anime enviorments seems to have been influenced by Herge’s style. While the characters are somewhat unrealistic in both cases, the enviormentas tends to be drawn very properly and realisting. When I googled it, I found your page :-p

For whatever it may be worth out of a cultural perspecitve, I’m Swedish… I’m not sure my views represents Swedes at all… I’m probably just like anyone anywhere else.