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  Adventures of Tintin Back in China - The world-famous Belgian cartoon adventurer Tintin will arrive in China with his equally famous dog Snowy, in memory of the 75th anniversary of Tintin's birth. China Central Television is to play the renowned cartoon series, by Belgian cartoonist Herge, Adventures of Tintin from May 2nd, featuring action-packed episodes like "The Crab with the Go
- Articulate: Comic hero, literary force. October 1, 2006. ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corp) - I was once asked who I considered my journalistic idol (for want of a better expression), and my answer was Tintin.
But I don't think they got it.
Probably because I don't think they knew who Tintin was. Or they didn't think it was funny that I looked up to a cartoon...
So it interested me greatly when I read that back in June the widow
- Bill Leak: The truth about Tintin's mysterious journey to Canberra | Opinion | The Australian - YOU never know quite what to expect when you're invited to dinner at Jack the Insider's place. Jack, or JTI as we call him, has such a wide circle of friends you're just as likely to find yourself in the company of international celebrities, statesmen or rubbing shoulders with the sort of low life other prisoners steer clear of when they're doi
- Blistering barnacles! Tintin is a Pop Art idol - Comment - Times Online - Take a look at Tintin's eyebrows. They are two, single-line half circles, above eyes that are no more than blank holes in a round face. Yet these are some of the most expressive eyebrows ever drawn. Mostly they are raised in permanently enthusiastic e
- DNA - Viewpoint - The netherworld of Tintin - Daily News & Analysis - Tintin is derived from the detective, the spy and the reporter — but he himself is notoriously difficult to define. He has no history and no private life.
- Discovery - Comic Book Heroes - Tintin first appeared in Le Petit Vingtieme, the weekly supplement to the Belgian daily Le Vingtieme Siecle on January 10th 1929. It was very successful and started being reprinted in French book from 1930. Georges Remi alias Herge was a highly gifted illustrator who started on the paper as a general dogsbody.
Tintin inhabits a self-contained
- Drawing on experience - The artist Hergé was involved in Scouting until he was 23. It was these formative years in Belgium that led to Tintin – one of the most iconic comic creations of the 20th century. Chris James reveals how the world famous character embodied his creator’s belief in Scouting
The year 1907 saw the birth of two cultural phenomena, both of which went
- Faces & Traces - Hergé (Son of Tintin) - culture - Yemen Times - Remi, Georges (1907-1983), alias Hergé - his initials reversed and pronounced as in French- was a Belgian comics writer, illustrator and artist. Hergé was born in Brussels, Belgium to middle class parents. Most of his early cartoons came from the time he spent traveling round Europe with the Belgian boy-scouts. His first serious drawings appear in
- Father of Tintin: Hip Hip Hergé !! - Nearly 100 years after he was born, Hergé - the Belgian-born father of Tintin - remains a figure who inspires devotion, controversy and, most of all, mystery. Paul Gravett reveals the inside story behind his great creation, and delves into the troubled background and tortured life of a man who changed comics forever
Published: 10 December 2006
- Hergé - Blistering barnacles!, Life in Belgium, Belgium, Expatica - Editor Paul Morris joins the celebrations of the birth 100 years ago of arguably the most famous Belgian ever - no, not Tintin, his creator George Prosper Remi, aka Hergé.
- How good is Tintin? - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au - Do the Tintin books make it as literature? Tom McCarthy arguesthere's a lot more to them than meets the eye. -
- IOL: Prestigious Tintin original sold for R300 000 - Brussels - A volume of adventures by cartoon hero Tintin dedicated by his Belgian creator to the late King Leopold III of the Belgians was sold for €9 600 (about R90 000) at auction here on Saturday, Brussels' Galerie Moderne said.
The 1968 adventure of the intrepid reporter, Vol 714 Pour Sydney (Flight 714 To Sydney) had been estimated to reac
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah, it's just a kid - www.smh.com.au - Forget Peter Pan, forget Harry Potter. Only one superchild matters, says Soumya Bhattacharya. - Sydney Morning Herald Online history is the true judge of popularity, Tintin - the cub reporter who encounters more trouble than he files stories - is one of the most enduring fictional characters ever. The first Tintin adventure appeared in January 1929
- Le Club Tintin - The rosy-cheeked adventurer never caught on in the U.S. But on the 100th anniversary of his creator’s birth, Julia Ross explores the boy’s power to unite travelers and melt national divides.
It was from the back row of high school French class that I first suspected something amiss. Madame Stone arrived one morning with a well-thumbed copy of
- Paul Gravett: Article - Herge - Every morning, millions of males put a dab of gel on their hair at the front and make a little quiff to give it a bit of lift and character. They might not realise where that look started from, but they're actually turning themselves into the big-hearted blond reporter Tintin.
Like Magritte and the saxophone, Tintin is a Belgian original with
- Snowy in July - Amazingly enough, Tintin, the eternally teenaged reporter/adventurer with the strange spiky hair and the talking fox-terrier, turned 100 earlier this summer.
Well, it's not actually Tintin who turned 100, but his creator, Herge - the pen-name of Georges Remi - a brilliant Belgium-based cartoonist who, had he not died 1983, would have celebrated
- The Adventures of Herge - He invented an alcoholic swearing ship’s captain, was painted by Andy Warhol, appeared on a Belgian stamp and has a planet named after him. Jean o'Connor takes a wander through the life of Tintin's creator: Herge.
- The Adventures of TinTin - When a Belgian cartoonist first imagined Tintin and his dog Snowy, and sent them off on an adventure to Communist Russia, a cult was born that has since spread across the world. Georges Prosper Remi Remi or Herge (for that was his pen-name) spent the rest of his long life writing and drawing the adventures of Tintin, boy reporter, whose courage and
- The Telegraph - Calcutta : adventures with the clear line - Hundred years after his birth, Hergé’s style may have gone out of fashion, but his boy reporter is still going strong, writes Abhijit Gupta
From the mid-Seventies, the magazine Anandamela began to carry Bengali translations of the adventures of Tintin, almost half a century after the character was created. He has since become a pa
- The man behind the boy - The man responsible for Tintin was Georges Prosper Remi, he developed an early interest in drawing cartoons, and his earliest works made their debut in his Boy Scout troupe’s publications.
- Tintin - Certainly the figure of Tintin has a great deal of currency in
Montreal as a popular hero. In the sixty-five years since his creation
Tintin has become an established point of cultural reference -
producing meaning even for those unfamiliar with the original texts
from which his image is drawn. On a global scale, the popularity of
Tintin -- w
- Tintin & Herge history and trivia - - Herge is the pen-name of Georges Remi, who was born on May 22, 1907, in Brussels, Belgium. Herge is the French pronunciation of "R.G.", Remi's initials reversed.
- While working at the Catholic (and deeply nationalist) newspaper Le XXe Siecle (the 20th Century) Herge was invited to produce the paper's weekly comic supplement for children:
- Tintin in India: The epic that wasn't-India-The Times of India - Author Vikram Seth, in his verse novel, 'The Golden Gate' pays one of the most eloquent tributes to Tintin and his friends, through a witty sonnet, which holds forth on why Tintin's adventures are so popular. It's not difficult to see why Seth, like so many others, has been so captivated by Tintin. Ever since he began his adventures almost 80 y
- Tintin publisher Leblanc dies at 92- ET Cetera-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times - BRUSSELS: Raymond Leblanc, the Belgian publisher behind the global rise of Tintin's comic-book adventures, died on Friday at the age of 92, the company he founded said.
Lombard editions paid tribute to "the qualities of the man and of the shrewd publisher who contributed to recognition of animated books as the ninth art.
"In launching th
- Tintin, a boy frozen in time - 10 Jan 2004 - World News - Age has not wearied him - and nor can it. The little adventurer with a distinctive flick to his forelock, oddly unfashionable plus-fours and rarely a change of clothes is frozen in time. As he globetrots from the old Orient to the Land of the Pharaohs - and even the Moon - he looks as he ever did. Yet today he turns 75.
Tintin - with his faithfu
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