Tag Archives: tintin

Peter Jackson Won’t Finish Hobbit Before Shooting Next Tintin

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Stop right there, Hobbit trilogy. There’s a Tintin trilogy needing emergency CPR.

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“Hergay” – The Adventures Of Georges And Tchang Finally Published

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Remember this story from last year? A graphic novel telling the story of Tintin creator Herge and his gay affair with a young man, Tchang, the model for characters in his books, and an alleged communist Chinese spy? Given the …

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The Man Who Banned Tintin From A Stockholm Library… For One Day

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This morning, the Stockholm Library of Culture, the Kulturhuset, announced that it was removing Tintin books from its shelves. Behrang Miri, in charge of the library’s youth sections, said that he’d made the decision because Tintin reflected a “caricature of a …

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Face To Face With The Hobbit Trolls – The Shrouds Have Come Off Of Weta’s Wonderful Creations

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Man, these look great.

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$275 Million For Tintin And Friends

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

By the end of the week, the agreement covering the sale of French publishing house Flammarion from Italian publishing house RCS to French publisher Editions Gallimard, should be finalised. Reportedly this is for a sum worth 220 million Euros ($275 …

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Tintin In America Original Cover Art By Hergé Brings World Record $1.6 Million At Auction

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Mark Seifert

The original artwork for Tintin in America by Belgian artist Hergé sold at auction earlier today for $1.6 million from Paris auction house Artcurial, a world record for comic book art in a public sale. Tintin in America was the third …

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Eddy Paape, Golden Age Belgian Comics Creator, Passes

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Born in 1920, Eddy Paape was one of the oldest of the remaining classsic Belgian school of comics. Getting an artistic reputation working with Jijé on Emmanuel, he then drew the Valhardi detective comic in seminal anthology comic Spirou from …

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The Million Dollar Tintin In America Cover Is For Sale

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

The artwork for the front cover of Tintin In America, from the nineteen thirties, will go on sale in Paris next month, with a price expected to fetch around a million dollars. Feel free to pose with your little finger …

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French Publisher Buys Publishing Rights To Tintin

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Massive french publisher Gallimard are in the process of buying French group Falmmarion, which currently belongs to an Italian company. Now, Flammarion also owns Casterman, publisher of Tintin, Corto Maltese, Fluide Glacial and other minor comic labels. Gallimard also has …

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Spielberg Won’t Direct Jurassic Park 4, Peter Jackson To Capture Tintin 2 This Year

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

The War Horse wagon train rumbles on, reaching France, and all the glamour of a star-studded Parisian press conference (ie. a bunch of mostly self-entitled hacks asking tedious questions of the bored and tired… but in Paris). Amongst the talk …

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What If… Herge Created The X-Men?

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Courtesy of French site MooLooZone, What If… Herge Created The X-Men?

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Sunday Runaround – Tintin, Tibet And Traffic

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Rich Johnston

FoxWatch: In the light of the new Tintin movie, Fox News runs a delightful tourist guide to Brussels and Belgium, including the country’s rich comic book history. Some of the website commenters are less sure. The only good thing to …

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Tintin 2 To Go Into Production In The Summer? Jurassic Park 3D Re-Release On The Cards?

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

In order to promote War Horse, producer Kathleen Kennedy has been doing the junket rounds. I’ve only read one interview so far, but it’s such good value in a “headline” sense that I expect we’ll be seeing her name spread …

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Saturday Runaround – Tintin! Tintin! Tintin!

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Rich Johnston

TintinInIndiaWatch: How does Tintin sell in India? “So what is Tintin’s enduring appeal for us? Book-store managers say the perennial demand for Tintin comics in India never dips. In 2010, 35 years after the first Indian translation of Tintin in …

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The Complete Tintin App That Wasn’t (UPDATE)

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Rich Johnston

It sounded too good to be true. The complete Tintin collection as an Apple iPad App for $4.99/£2.99. And that’s exactly what it was. How it got approved by Apple isn’t known. Those who have bought the App now say …

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Afterwards They Will Explode – Tintin: The Gritty Reboot

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Last week’s video from Patrick Willems, Why Sonic Screwdrivers Are Banned In Action Movies was a smash hit. And I get the feeling this will be as well. What if Tintin Was Grim’N;Gritty? Welcome to Tintin – Five Years Later. …

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Prisoners Of The Sun Not Tintin 2 But Probably Tintin 3

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

I didn’t much like The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, and neither did my guests to the screening. We all found different plot holes, were all put off by different aesthetics and all had some issue or …

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Chester Brown And Friends Draw Tintin

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Rich Johnston

In an exhibition sponsored by Toronto’s premier comics store The Beguiling, Chester Brown and other Canadian artists including Michael DeForge, Joe Ollmann, Zach Worton, and Faith Erin Hicks have drawn their versions of the popular Belgian comics character for Toronto …

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