As a kid I read the full series of Tintin stories. I'm still a fan of Tintin. Today I learnt from TIMESONLINE site about Dalai Lama honoring this young brave hero. This is just wonderful. The award honours individuals and institutions that have made a significant contribution to the public’s understanding of Tibet. Hergé’s Tintin in Tibet, published in 1959, is the 20th in the classic...
A video tour and chat with Luc Mieuws, who has been collecting all things related to TINTIN for a dozen years. A fun tour and the amount of TINTIN collectibles is boggling. I forget how wonderful the "clean line" drawings of Hergé are to linger over. Within a minute, I was getting iterested in having a couple of the items that Luc has as well! Och! Thanks to Jogee for putting this...
French Tintin fans are threatening to boycott a forthcoming Steven Spielberg film after the British husband of Hergé's widow sued a fan for printing pamphlets on the comic hero.
Leigh Walton from Top Shelf invites artists to contribute to his Tintin Sketchbook . He writes: "This is a themed sketchbook I started collecting at San Diego Comic-Con 2008. The theme is Herge's Tintin -- any character from the series. So far I've filled up one whole book and moved into a second volume."
2257. There be lots of Tintins here. And Snowys. And Thom(p)sons. And Haddocks. Even a Thompson Triplet. Sadly, no Bianca Castafiore, Professor Calculus, or even Jollyon Wagg. You can't have it all. But, there are not only about 100 Tintins/Snowys/Haddocks/Thom(p)sons, there are many interpretations. I particularly enjoy the one I've chosen to illustrate, by artist David Chelsea, since I'm also terribly...
All that talk and YouTube videos yesterday about one of my favorite topics— waffles —made me a mite peckish for those delicious hot 'n' crispy breakfast treats, so it was off today into Manhattan to Petite Abeille , my favorite Belgian restaurant in the Big Apple. How Belgian is it? So Belgian that Hercule Poirot eats here. In fact, I was so hungry that I vowed to eat 10,000 WAFFLES! So,...
Read a graphic novel. If you are not already a fan of comic strips and/or comic books, you might be surprised to find just how sophisticated they can be. Graphic novels tell a story in graphic form, using the images and minimal text style of comics to convey what a regular novel does in words alone. The term is used about stories too long to publish in one single edition of a comics magazine, and describes...
The Adventures of Tin Tin The Secret Of The Unicorn a 2011 motion capture 3-D film based on The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Georges "Hergé" Remi. It will be the first animated film directed by Steven Spielberg and the script is based on three of the stories; The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure....
Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, 41, is taking legal action claiming Hergé's controversial Tintin In The Congo is propaganda for colonialism and amounts to "racism and xenophobia" . It seems he isn’t just another shakedown artist looking for a big payout either – what he wants to do is remove the book from sale… Mr Mbutu Mondondo launched a case in Belgium two years ago...
It turns out , you can sue a book—even a book that was written almost 80 years ago: Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, 41, is taking legal action claiming Hergé's controversial Tintin In The Congo is propaganda for colonialism and amounts to "racism and xenophobia". "Tintin's little (black) helper is seen as stupid and without qualities. It makes people think that blacks have not...
As the Steven Spielberg directed Tintin project nears completion for an expected 2011 3-D release, fans might recall the first time Tintin was prepped for the big screen, in 1946. Spielberg's film, which is already completely filmed and cut and now at Jackson's WETA special effects house for what is supposed to be cutting edge motion capture computer animation is based in part on the classic Tintin...
NYTimes.com – “If you go to the Brooklyn Public Library seeking a copy of “Tintin au Congo,” Hergé’s second book in a series, prepare to make an appointment and wait days to see the book. “It’s not for the public,” a librarian in the children’s room said this month when a patron asked to see [...]
Above: Two Africans, speaking "pidgin English," spot Tintin's ship in a 1930 original cartoon panel from TINTIN AU CONGO. To the right, a revised panel, showing that they had "changed their clothes [and] also made their French less degrading. " The NY Times talks about TINTIN AU CONGO and other books being "held under lock and key" in A Library’s Approach to Books...
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