‘’ Ou est Milou?’’
On seeing that I was tempted to respond with,
‘Translation : Where is Snowy?’’, but didn’t expect there would be any Tintin fans to get it. Looks like I was wrong.
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Got my kids into Tintin because I loved it as a kid. The illustration is weirdly patchy. Some books are incredible others are much more amateurish. It’s not a strictly chronological process of improvement either. Anyone know why?
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Will check it out. The comedian Dom Joly made a similar programme for Channel 4. I know that he re-drew the original 30s edition of The Black Island in the 60s using exact references. You can still see the railway bridge he jumps off at Eastbourne Station.
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That Dom Joly doc was good. I’ll try and dig that up again for a second watch.
The original books done in the 30s were black and white. He re-drew some of them in colour in the 40s and some again in the 60s when he had a big studio. So The Black Island was re-done twice. you can tell by the backgrounds which period they were done in.
I grew up on Tintin and Astérix. My kids aren’t fussed on Tintin but they both love the indomitable Gaul.
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Ah that would make sense! I always wondered why it wasn’t a linear process of improvement. Thanks!
Same Tintin and Asterix. Read them all then moved on to Fighting Fantasy and 2000AD.
I love a bit of Tintin and Astérix. The Willie Rushton reads Asterix audiobooks have been a recent bedtime favourite of mine.
And I’m quite partial to Blake and Mortimer as well as it happens.
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If you guys ever go to Brussels I wholeheartedly recommend the cartoon museum for Hergé geekery. And Asterix and Maus. It’s really good.
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2000AD when it was still printed on newsprint might well represent the pinnacle of British culture.
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Have you been to the Hergé museum? I really want to go. It was designed by the amazing comics artist Joost Swarte.
I think it’s agreed that Anthea Bell’s English translation is possibly better than the original. Genius.
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Sorry for hijacking the Instagram thread. Tintin and Asterix are my specialist subjects for Mastermind.
Two final points:
The Castafiore Emerald is the best Tintin book.
Goscinny (writer of Asterix)’s Nicolas books are also incredible.
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Might have to check those out. I picked up a Blake and Mortimer book in Waterstone’s a while back. Didn’t buy it but interested to hear if anyone else has read those. Looked good with covers styled to appeal to Tintin fans.
Sorry also for thread derail.
Edgar Jacobs worked on several of the early Tintin books with Hergé.
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Doesn’t surprise me.
Celine’s bedside manner must’ve been incroyable
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Loving this tangent tbh. The first theme park I went to as a kid was Parc Astérix and it blew my tiny mind (Smurfland is also good).
@jamjar and @franc, can either of you confirm the story I heard that Tintin was originally drawn with his fringe down, but that in his very first comic adventure he drives an open-top car, and halfway through the story, as he’s riding along, the wind blows his hair up into a cow’s-lick which Hergé liked so much as a character detail that he decided to keep it forever?
Tintin did not have his quiff from the first installment, instead this only developed somewhat later, in what became page 8 of the printed volume, as Tintin is depicted getting into a car that drives off at high speeds, forcing the formation of his quiff.
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I picked up this painting in chinatown Amsterdam. Jo and Zette are the characters, it’s translated name is ‘Destination New York’. It’s just like a hand painted repro of a localised version of one of his more obscure books. Always loved herge’s work.
Edit: and the O.G. book:
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I used to love the Willie Rushton audio books as a kid. I used to check it out of local library every other week.
Not a French comic, but another audio book we used to borrow at that time was Odysseus, greatest hero of them all read by Tony Robinson. That was always a favourite but I don’t know anyone else who remembers it.
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