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The Adventures of Tintin

The main characters and others from The Castafiore Emerald, one of the later books in the

series. In the centre of the group is Tintin, the eponymous hero of the series.

Created by Hergé

Publication information

Publisher Casterman
Le Lombard
Methuen Publishing

[show]Title(s)
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
Tintin in the Congo
Tintin in America
Cigars of the Pharaoh
The Blue Lotus
The Broken Ear
The Black Island
King Ottokar's Sceptre
The Crab with the Golden Claws
The Shooting Star
The Secret of the Unicorn
Red Rackham's Treasure
The Seven Crystal Balls
Prisoners of the Sun
Land of Black Gold
Destination Moon
Explorers on the Moon
The Calculus Affair
The Red Sea Sharks
Tintin in Tibet
The Castafiore Emerald
Flight 714
Tintin and the Picaros
Tintin and Alph-Art

Formats Original material for the series has

been published as a strip in the comics
anthology(s) Le Petit Vingtième, Le
Soir and Tintin and a set of graphic
novels.

Original language French

Genre Action/adventure

Publication date 1929 – 1976

Main character(s) Tintin

Snowy
Captain Haddock
Professor Calculus
Thomson and Thompson

Creative team

Writer(s) Hergé

Artist(s) Hergé with

Bob de Moor
 Edgar P. Jacobs

Colourist(s) Josette Baujot

Creator(s) Hergé

Reprints

The series has been reprinted, at least in part, in Dutch, English,

and German.

The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by the
Belgian artist Georges Rémi (1907–1983), who wrote under the pen name of Hergé. The series
first appeared in French in Le Petit Vingtième, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper
Le XXe Siècle on 10 January 1929. The success of the series saw the serialised strips collected
into a series of twenty-four albums, spun into a successful magazine and adapted for film, radio,
television and theatre. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th
century, with translations published in more than 50 languages and more than 200 million copies
of the books sold to date.[1] Its popularity around the world has been attributed to its "universal
appeal" and its ability to transcend "time, language and culture."[2]
Set during a largely realistic 20th century, the hero of the series is Tintin, a young Belgian
reporter. He is aided in his adventures from the beginning by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy
(Milou in French). Later, popular additions to the cast included the brash, cynical and grumpy
Captain Haddock, the highly intelligent but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus (Professeur
Tournesol) and other supporting characters such as the incompetent detectives Thomson and
Thompson (Dupont et Dupond). Hergé himself features in several of the comics as a background
character, as do his assistants in some instances.
The comic strip series has long been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Hergé's
signature ligne claire style.[3][4][5][6] Its "engaging",[7] well-researched[7][8][9] plots straddle a variety
of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and
science fiction. The stories within the Tintin series always feature slapstick humour,
accompanied in later albums by satire, and political and cultural commentary.

Contents
[hide]
• 1 History
• 2 List of titles
• 3 Characters
○ 3.1 Tintin and Snowy
○ 3.2 Captain Archibald Haddock
 ○ 3.3 Supporting characters
• 4 Settings
• 5 Creating the works
○ 5.1 Research
○ 5.2 Influences
• 6 Criticisms of the series
• 7 Adaptations and exhibitions
○ 7.1 Films
○ 7.2 Future film
○ 7.3 Documentaries
○ 7.4 Television
○ 7.5 Radio
○ 7.6 Theatre
○ 7.7 Unofficial comic books
○ 7.8 Exhibitions
• 8 Memorabilia and merchandise
○ 8.1 Shops
○ 8.2 Stamps
○ 8.3 Coins & Medallions
○ 8.4 Books
• 9 Translation into English
• 10 Legacy
○ 10.1 Awards
• 11 Quotations
• 12 Notes
• 13 References
• 14 Further reading
• 15 External links

[edit] History
Tintin is a young reporter, and Hergé uses this to present the character in a number of adventures
which were contemporary with the period in which he was working, most notably, the Bolshevik
uprising in Russia and World War II, and sometimes even prescient, as in the case of the moon
landings. Hergé also created a world for Tintin which managed to reduce detail to a simplified
but recognisable and realistic representation, an effect Hergé was able to achieve with reference
to a well-maintained archive of images.[10]
Though Tintin's adventures are formulaic — presenting a mystery which is then solved logically
— Hergé infused the strip with his own sense of humour,[10] and created supporting characters
who, although predictable, were filled with charm that allowed the reader to engage with them.
Hergé also had a great understanding of the mechanics of the comic strip, especially pacing, a
skill displayed in The Castafiore Emerald, a work he meant to be packed with tension in which
nothing actually happens.[9]
Hergé initially improvised the creation of Tintin's adventures, uncertain how Tintin would escape
from whatever predicament appeared. Not until after the completion of Cigars of the Pharaoh
was Hergé encouraged to research and plan his stories. The impetus came from The Reverend
Gosset, chaplain to the Chinese students at Louvain University. Gosset introduced Hergé to
Zhang Chongren, a Chinese student, who further encouraged him to avoid perpetuating the
perceptions Europeans had of China at the time. Hergé and Zhang collaborated on the next serial,
The Blue Lotus, which is cited by critics as Hergé's first masterpiece.[9] Interestingly, The Blue
Lotus includes a reference to the European stereotypes associated with China, in a context that
causes them to appear ridiculous.
Other changes to the mechanics of creating the strip were forced on Hergé by outside events. The
Second World War and the invasion of Belgium by Hitler's armies saw the closure of the
newspaper in which Tintin was serialised.[11] Work was halted on Land of Black Gold, and the
already published Tintin in America and The Black Island were banned by the Nazi censors, who
were concerned at their presentation of America and Britain.[9] However, Hergé was able to
continue with Tintin's adventures, publishing four books and serialising two more adventures in
a German-licensed newspaper.[9] During and after the German occupation Hergé was accused of
being a collaborator because of the Nazi control of the paper (Le Soir), and he was briefly taken
for interrogation after the war.[12] He claimed that he was simply doing a job under the
occupation, like a plumber or carpenter. His work of this period, unlike earlier and later work, is
politically neutral and resulted in stories such as The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's
Treasure; but the apocalyptic The Shooting Star reflects the foreboding Hergé felt during this
uncertain political period.
The Shooting Star was nonetheless controversial. The story line involved a race between two
crews trying to reach a meteorite which had landed in the Arctic. Hergé chose a subject that was
as fantastic as possible to avoid issues related to the crisis of the times and to thereby avoid
trouble with the censors. Nonetheless politics intruded. In the original version, the crew Tintin
joined was composed of Europeans from Axis or neutral countries ("Europe") while their
underhanded rivals were Americans, financed by a person with a Jewish name and what Nazi
propagandists would dub "Jewish features";[13] later editions would substitute a fictitious country
for the United States. Tintin himself uses a World War II Arado 196 German reconnaissance
aircraft. In a scene which appeared when the story was being serialised in Le Soir, two Jews,
depicted in classic anti-Semitic caricature, are shown watching Philippulus harassing Tintin. One
actually looks forward to the end of the world, arguing that it would mean that he would not be
obliged to settle with his creditors.
After the war Hergé admitted that: "I recognize that I myself believed that the future of the West
could depend on the New Order. For many, democracy had proved a disappointment, and the
New Order brought new hope. In light of everything which has happened, it is of course a huge
error to have believed for an instant in the New Order".[14] The Tintin character was never
depicted as adhering to these beliefs. However, it has been argued that anti-Semitic themes
continued, especially in the post-war story Flight 714.[15]
A post-war paper shortage forced changes in the format of the books. Hergé had usually allowed
the stories to develop to a length that suited the story, but with paper now in short supply,
publishers Casterman asked Hergé to consider using smaller panel sizes and adopt a fixed length
of 62 pages. Hergé took on more staff—the first ten books having been produced by himself and
his wife—, eventually building a studio system with the Studios Hergé. The adoption of colour
allowed Hergé to expand the scope of the works. His use of colour was more advanced than that
of American comics of the time, with better production values allowing a combination of the
four printing shades and thus a cinematographic approach to lighting and shading.[9] Hergé and
his studio would allow images to fill half pages or more, simply to detail and accentuate the
scene, using colour to emphasise important points.[9] Hergé notes this fact, stating "I consider my
stories as movies. No narration, no descriptions, emphasis is given to images".[16]
Hergé's personal life also affected the series; Tintin in Tibet was heavily influenced by his
nervous breakdown. His nightmares, which he reportedly described as being "all white",[9] are
reflected in the snowy landscapes. The plot has Tintin set off in search of Chang Chong-Chen,
previously seen in The Blue Lotus, and the piece contains no villains and little moral judgment,
with Hergé even refusing to condemn the Snowman of the Himalayas as "abominable".[9] Hergé's
death on 3 March 1983 left the twenty-fourth and final adventure, Tintin and Alph-Art,
unfinished. The plot saw Tintin embroiled in the world of modern art, and the story ended as he
is about to be killed, encased in perspex and presented as a work of art,[17] although it is unknown
whether he really dies at the end of the story.
[edit] List of titles
This is the list of the books as named in English. The publication dates are those of the original
French versions. Books 2 to 10 were re-published in colour and in a fixed 62-page format during
the 1940s. Book 11 was the first to be originally published in colour. Books 16 to 23 and revised
editions of books 2, 4, 7 and 15 were published with Studios Hergé.
1. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929– 13. The Seven Crystal Balls (1943–
1930) 1948)
2. Tintin in the Congo (1930–1931; 1946, 14. Prisoners of the Sun (1946–1949)
1975) 15. Land of Black Gold (1948–1950;
3. Tintin in America (1931–1932; 1945) 1972)
4. Cigars of the Pharaoh (1932–1934; 16. Destination Moon (1950–1953)
1955) 17. Explorers on the Moon (1950–
5. The Blue Lotus (1934–1935; 1946) 1954)
6. The Broken Ear (1935–1937; 1943) 18. The Calculus Affair (1954–1956)
7. The Black Island (1937–1938; 1943, 19. The Red Sea Sharks (1958)
1966) 20. Tintin in Tibet (1960)
8. King Ottokar's Sceptre (1938–1939; 21. The Castafiore Emerald (1963)
1947) 22. Flight 714 (1968)
9. The Crab with the Golden Claws 23. Tintin and the Picaros (1976)
(1940–1941) 24. Tintin and Alph-Art (1986, 2004)
10. The Shooting Star (1941; 1942) Published posthumously
11. The Secret of the Unicorn (1942–
1943)
12. Red Rackham's Treasure (1943–1944)
A comic was also released based on the film Tintin et le lac aux requins.
 • Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972)
[edit] Characters
Main article: Characters in The Adventures of Tintin
[edit] Tintin and Snowy
Main articles: Tintin (character) and Snowy (character)
Tintin is a young Belgian reporter who becomes involved in dangerous cases in which he takes
heroic action to save the day. Almost every adventure features Tintin hard at work in his
investigative journalism, but he is seldom seen actually turning in a story without first getting
caught up in some misadventure. He is a young man of more or less neutral attitudes and is less
colourful than the supporting cast. In this respect, he represents the everyman. However, he does
not seem to have a boss, nor any coworkers, nor an employer of any kind.We never learn his
surname. It is stated, though, in the opening panel of the first book, that he works for Le Petit
XXe and is one of their top reporters.

Tintin and Snowy, detail of a panel from the book The Black Island by Hergé, 1965
Snowy, a white Fox terrier, is Tintin's four-legged companion. They regularly save each other
from perilous situations. Snowy frequently "speaks" to the reader through his thoughts (often
displaying a dry sense of humour), which are supposedly not heard by the human characters in
the story except in Tintin in America, wherein he explains to Tintin his absence for a period of
time in the book.
Like Captain Haddock, Snowy is fond of the Loch Lomond brand of whisky, and his occasional
bouts of drinking tend to get him into trouble, as does his arachnophobia.
Another explanation to the origins of the two characters is possible. The first 3 adventures of
Tintin visit places originally visited by photographer-reporter Robert Sexé, recorded in the
Belgian press from the mid to late 1920s. At that time Sexé had made numerous trips round the
world on a motorcycle, in collaboration with Grand-Prix champion and motorcycle record-holder
René Milhoux, and these trips were highly publicized at the time. Sexé has also been noted to
have a similar appearance to Tintin, and the Hergé Foundation in Belgium has admitted that it is
not too hard to imagine how Hergé could have been influenced by the exploits of Sexé.[18] In
1996, a biography of Robert Sexé by Janpol Schulz was published, titled Sexé au pays des
Soviets (meaning Sexé in the Land of the Soviets) to mimic the name of the first Tintin
Adventure.[19]
[edit] Captain Archibald Haddock
Main article: Captain Haddock

Captain Haddock
Captain Archibald Haddock, a seafaring captain of disputed ancestry (he may be of Belgian,
French, or British origin), is Tintin's best friend,. Haddock was initially depicted as a weak and
alcoholic character, but later became more respectable. The Captain's coarse humanity and
sarcasm act as a counterpoint to Tintin's often implausible heroism; he is always quick with a dry
comment whenever the boy reporter seems too idealistic Hergé stated that Haddock's surname
was derived from a "sad English fish that drinks a lot.
Captain Haddock lives in the luxurious mansion Marlinspike Hall ("Moulinsart" in the original
French).
Haddock uses a range of colourful insults and curses to express his feelings, such as "billions of
blue blistering barnacles"(Sometimes just "blistering barnacles", "billions of blistering
barnacles", or "blue blistering barnacles".), "ten thousand thundering typhoons"(Sometimes just
"thundering typhoons".), "troglodyte", "bashi-bazouk", "kleptomaniac", "ectoplasm", "sea-
gherkin", "anacoluthon", "pockmark", "nincompoop", "abominable snowman", "nitwits",
"scoundrels", "steam rollers", "parasites", "floundering oath", "blundering Bazookas", "popping
jay", "bragger", "pinheads", "miserable slugs", "ectomorph", "maniacs", and "freshwater swabs"
but nothing that is actually considered a swear word. Haddock is a hard drinker, particularly fond
of rum and of Loch Lomond whisky. His bouts of drunkenness are often used for comic effect.
"[1] Haddock remained without a first name until the last completed story, Tintin and the Picaros
(1976), when the name Archibald was suggested. Tintin and Alph-Art maintained this suggestion
by having him introduce himself as such.
[edit] Supporting characters
• Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol {Prof. Sunflower} in
French), an absent minded professor and half-deaf physicist,. He was introduced in Red
Rackham’s Treasure and based partially on Auguste Piccard a Swiss physicist.. He has a
tendency to act in a very aggressive manner when someone says he's "acting the goat."
He also often, due to his deafness, misunderstands what people are saying, making them
repeat themselves, and still getting it wrong.
 • Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond) are two bumbling detective twins, with
the only discernible difference being the shape of their moustaches. They provide much
of the comic relief throughout the series, being afflicted with chronic spoonerism, and are
shown to be mostly incompetent in their tasks.
• Bianca Castafiore is an opera singer whom Haddock absolutely despises. She seems to
constantly be popping up wherever he goes, along with her maid Irma and pianist Igor
Wagner. She is comically foolish, whimsical, absent-minded, and talkative, and seems
unaware that her voice is shrill and appallingly loud. Her own name means "white and
chaste flower," a meaning to which Prof. Calculus refers when he offers a white rose to
the singer in The Castafiore Emerald.

• Other recurring characters include NESTOR the butler, GENERAL ALCAZAR the
South American leader, JOLYON WAGG (Séraphin Lampion in French) an (infuriating,
to Haddock) insurance salesman, Kalish Ezab the Arab emir, Abdullah the emir's
mischievous son, Chang the loyal Chinese boy, Dr. J.W. Müller the evil Nazi German
doctor, Cutts, a local butcher that is repeatedly called by accident by Haddock and whose
phone number is repeatedly mixed up with Haddock's, Rastapopoulos, the criminal
mastermind and Allan, Rastapopoulos' henchman and formerly Haddock's first mate.
[edit] Settings
Main article: Settings in The Adventures of Tintin
The settings within Tintin have also added depth to the strips. Hergé mingles real and fictional
lands into his stories, along with a base in Belgium from where the heroes set off. This is
originally 26 Labrador Road, but later Marlinspike Hall. This is best demonstrated in King
Ottokar's Sceptre, in which Hergé creates two fictional countries (Syldavia and Borduria) and
invites the reader to tour them in text through the insertion of a travel brochure into the storyline.
[7]
Other fictional lands include San Theodoros, San Paolo, and Nuevo Rico in South America,
the kingdom or administrative region of Gaipajama in India, and Khemed in the Middle East.
Along with these fictitious locations, actual nations were employed such as Belgium,
Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, Congo, Peru, India, Egypt, Sahara
Desert, Indonesia, Nepal, Tibet, and China. Another setting was the Moon, the Atlantic Ocean
and in the first edition of Land of Black Gold, Palestine, though this was later replaced by the
fictional Khemed.
[edit] Creating the works
[edit] Research
Hergé's extensive research began with The Blue Lotus, Hergé stating: "it was from that time that
I undertook research and really interested myself in the people and countries to which I sent
Tintin, out of a sense of responsibility to my readers".[8]
Hergé's use of research and photographic reference allowed him to build a realised universe for
Tintin, going so far as to create fictionalised countries, dressing them with specific political
cultures. These were heavily informed by the cultures evident in Hergé's lifetime. Pierre Skilling
has asserted that Hergé saw monarchy as "the legitimate form of government", noting that
democratic "values seem underrepresented in [such] a classic Franco-Belgian strip".[24] Syldavia
in particular is described in considerable detail, Hergé creating a history, customs, and language,
which is actually the Flemish dialect of Brussels. He set the country in the Balkans, and it is, by
his own admission, modeled after Albania.[25] The country finds itself threatened by neighbouring
Borduria with an attempted annexation appearing in King Ottokar's Sceptre. This situation
parallels the Italian conquest of Albania and of Czechoslovakia and Austria by expansionist Nazi
Germany prior to World War II.[26]
Hergé's use of research would include months of preparation for Tintin's voyage to the moon in
the two-part storyline spread across Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon. His research
for the storyline was noted in New Scientist: "[T]he considerable research undertaken by Hergé
enabled him to come very close to the type of space suit that would be used in future Moon
exploration, although his portrayal of the type of rocket that was actually used was a long way
off the mark". The moon rocket is based on the German V2 rockets.[27]
[edit] Influences
In his youth Hergé admired Benjamin Rabier and suggested that a number of images within
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets reflected this influence, particularly the pictures of animals.
René Vincent, the Art Deco designer, also had an impact on early Tintin adventures: "His
influence can be detected at the beginning of the Soviets, where my drawings are designed along
a decorative line, like an 'S'..".[28] Hergé also felt no compunction in admitting that he had stolen
the image of round noses from George McManus, feeling they were "so much fun that I used
them, without scruples!"[29]
During the extensive research Hergé carried out for The Blue Lotus, he became influenced by
Chinese and Japanese illustrative styles and woodcuts. This is especially noticeable in the
seascapes, which are reminiscent of works by Hokusai and Hiroshige.[30][31]
Hergé also declared Mark Twain an influence, although this admiration may have led him astray
when depicting Incas as having no knowledge of an upcoming solar eclipse in Prisoners of the
Sun, an error attributed by T.F. Mills to an attempt to portray "Incas in awe of a latter-day
'Connecticut Yankee'".[9]
[edit] Criticisms of the series
The earliest stories in The Adventures of Tintin have been criticised for both displaying animal
cruelty as well as racial stereotypes, violent, colonialist, and even fascist leanings, including
caricatured portrayals of non-Europeans. While the Hergé Foundation has presented such
criticism as naïveté,[32] and scholars of Hergé such as Harry Thompson have claimed that "Hergé
did what he was told by the Abbé Wallez",[32] Hergé himself felt that his background made it
impossible to avoid prejudice, stating that "I was fed the prejudices of the bourgeois society that
surrounded me."[29]
In Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, the Bolsheviks were presented without exception as villains.
Hergé drew on Moscow Unveiled, a work given to him by Wallez and authored by Joseph
Douillet, the former Belgian consul in Russia, that is highly critical of the Soviet regime,
although Hergé contextualised this by noting that in Belgium, at the time a devout Catholic
nation, "Anything Bolshevik was atheist".[29] In the story, Bolshevik leaders are motivated only
by personal greed and by a desire to deceive the world. Tintin discovers, buried, "the hideout
where Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin have collected together wealth stolen from the people". Hergé
later dismissed the failings of this first story as "a transgression of my youth".[32] By 1999, some
part of this presentation was being noted as far more reasonable, The Economist declaring: "In
retrospect, however, the land of hunger and tyranny painted by Hergé was uncannily accurate".
[33]
Tintin in the Congo has been criticised as presenting the Africans as naïve and primitive. In the
original work, Tintin is shown at a blackboard addressing a class of African children. "Mes chers
amis," he says, "je vais vous parler aujourd'hui de votre patrie: La Belgique" ("My dear friends, I
am going to talk to you today about your fatherland: Belgium"). Hergé redrew this in 1946 to
show a lesson in mathematics.[34] Hergé later admitted the flaws in the original story, excusing it
by noting: "I portrayed these Africans according to ... this purely paternalistic spirit of the time".
[29]
The perceived problems with this book were summarised by Sue Buswell in 1988[35] as being
"all to do with rubbery lips and heaps of dead animals" although Thompson noted this quote may
have been "taken out of context".[32] "Dead animals" refers to the fashion for big game hunting at
the time of the work's original publication. Drawing on André Maurois' Les Silences du colonel
Bramble, Hergé presents Tintin as a big-game hunter, accidentally killing fifteen antelope as
opposed to the one needed for the evening meal. However, concerns over the number of dead
animals did lead the Scandinavian publishers of Tintin's adventures to request changes. A page
which presented Tintin killing a rhinoceros by drilling a hole in the animal's back and inserting a
stick of dynamite was deemed excessive, and Hergé substituted a page in which the rhino
accidentally discharges Tintin's rifle while he slept under a tree.[36] In 2007 the UK's Commission
for Racial Equality called for the book to be pulled from the shelves after a complaint, stating
that "it beggars belief that in this day and age that any shop would think it acceptable to sell and
display 'Tintin In The Congo'."[37][38] In August 2007, a complaint was filed in Brussels, Belgium,
by a Congolese student, claiming the book was an insult to the Congolese people. Public
prosecutors are investigating, however, the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to
Racism warned against excess political correctness.[39]

Mr. Bohlwinkel
Some of the early albums were altered by Hergé in subsequent editions, usually at the demand of
publishers. For example, at the instigation of his American publishers, many of the black
characters in Tintin in America were re-coloured to make their race white or ambiguous.[40] The
Shooting Star album originally had an American villain with the Jewish surname of
"Blumenstein". This proved to be controversial, as the character looked very stereotypically
Jewish. "Blumenstein" was changed to an American with a less ethnically specific name, Mr.
Bohlwinkel, in later editions and subsequently to a South American of a fictional country - São
Rico. Hergé later discovered that 'Bohlwinkel' was also a Jewish name.[26]
Nazi collaborator SS officer Léon Degrelle published a book insisting that he was Hergé's model
for the character Tintin.
[edit] Adaptations and exhibitions
Main article: Tintin books, films, and media
The Adventures of Tintin have been adapted in a variety of media besides the original comic strip
and its collections. Hergé encouraged adaptations and members of his studio working on the
animated films. After Hergé's death, the Hergé Foundation became responsible for authorizing
adaptations and exhibitions.
The French film poster for the 1961 film, Tintin and the Golden Fleece.
[edit] Films
There have been both live-action and animated film adaptations of The Adventures of Tintin.
• The Crab with the Golden Claws (1947)
• Tintin and the Golden Fleece (1961)
• Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1964)
• Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969).
• Tintin et la SGM (1970
• Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972)
•
[edit] Future film
Main article: The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
Steven Spielberg has directed a motion captured 3-D film for a planned 2011 release, based
on two linked stories published in the 1940s, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's
Treasure. Peter Jackson's company Weta Digital will provide the animation and special effects.
[edit] Documentaries
Two documentaries have been made about Tintin and his creator Hergé.
• I, Tintin (1976), a French documentary
• Tintin and I (Tintin et Moi), by Danish director Anders Høgsbro Østergaard in 2003, a
co-production of companies from Denmark, Belgium, France, and Switzerland. This
documentary was based on a taped interview with Hergé by Numa Sadoul from 1971.
Although the interview was published as a book, Hergé was allowed to edit the work
 prior to publishing and much of the interview was excised.[44] The documentary was
broadcast in the United States as "Tintin and I" on the PBS network, 11 July 2006.[45]
[edit] Television
Two animated television series have been made, both adaptations of the comic strips rather than
original stories. The first was Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, produced by Belvision. The series
aired from 1958 to 1962, with 104 five-minute episodes produced. It was adapted by Charles
Shows and then translated into French by Greg (Michel Regnier), then editor-in-chief of Tintin
magazine. This series has been criticised for differing too greatly from the original books and for
its poor animation.[45] The second series was The Adventures of Tintin, featuring twenty-one of
the stories. It ran for three seasons (from 1991 to 1992), was co-directed by Stéphane Bernasconi
and Peter Hudecki, and was produced by Ellipse (France), and Nelvana (Canada), on behalf of
La Fondation Hergé. Traditional animation techniques were used on the series, adhering closely
to the books to such an extent that some frames from the original albums were transposed
directly to screen. The series was successful and it has aired in over fifty countries and was
released on DVD.[46]
[edit] Radio
The British Broadcasting Corporation produced two "The Adventures of Tintin" series in 1992
and 1993 starring Richard Pearce as Tintin and Andrew Sachs as Snowy. Captain Haddock was
played by Leo McKern in Series One and Lionel Jeffries in Series Two, Professor Calculus was
played by Stephen Moore and The Thompsons were played by Charles Kay.
[edit] Theatre
Hergé himself helped to create two Tintin stage plays; Tintin in India: The Mystery of the Blue
Diamond (1941) and The Disappearance of Mr. Boullock (1941–1942), both of which were
written with Jacques Van Melkebeke and performed in Brussels.[47] In the late 1970s and early
1980s, two Tintin plays appeared in London, adapted by Geoffrey Case for the Unicorn Theatre
Company - these were Tintin's Great American Adventure, based on the comic Tintin in
America, which was shown across 1976–1977, and Tintin and the Black Island, which was based
on The Black Island and shown in 1980. This second play later went on tour.[48][49][50][51][52]
A musical based on The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun premièred on 15
September 2001 at the Stadsschouwburg (city theatre) in Antwerp, Belgium. It was entitled
Kuifje - De Zonnetempel (De Musical) and was broadcast on Canal Plus, before moving on to
Charleroi in 2002 as Tintin — Le Temple du Soleil.[52][53][54][55] The Young Vic theatre company
ran a musical version of Tintin in Tibet at the Barbican Arts Centre in London from December
2005 to January 2006.[56] The production was directed by Rufus Norris, and was adapted by
Norris and David Greig.[56] The Hergé Foundation organised the return of this show to the West
End theatre in December 2006 and January 2007 in order to celebrate the Hergé centenary
(2007).
[edit] Unofficial comic books
Main article: List of Tintin parodies and pastiches
Various unofficial comics have also been released, ranging from illegal pirated versions of
original albums to pastiches and parodies, including the anarchist Breaking Free and the
pornographic Tintin in Thailand, which reportedly circulated from December 1999 onwards.[57]
Yves Rodier has produced a number of Tintin works, none authorised by the Hergé Foundation,
including a 1986 "completion" of the unfinished Tintin and Alph-art.[58]
[edit] Exhibitions
Hergé's work on Tintin has formed the basis of many exhibitions, with the Hergé Foundation
creating a mobile exhibition in 1991. "The World of Hergé" is described by the Foundation as
being "an excellent introduction to Hergé's work". Materials from this exhibition have also
formed the basis for larger shows, namely "Hergé the Draughtsman", an exhibition to celebrate
the 60th anniversary of Tintin's creation, and the more recent "In Tibet with Tintin". In 2001 the
‘Musee de la Marine’ staged an exhibition of items related to the sea which had inspired Hergé.
In 2002 the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Japan staged an exhibition of original drawings, as
well as of the submarine and rocket ship invented in the strips by Professor Calculus. Barcelona
has also hosted an exhibition on Tintin and the sea, "llamp de rellamp" at the Maritime Museum
in 2003.
2004 saw exhibitions in Holland, "Tintin and the Incas" at the Royal Museum of Ethnology; the
"Tintin in the City" exhibition in the Halles Saint Géry in Brussels. The 100th anniversary of
Hergé's birth is commemorated with a large exhibition at the Paris museum for contemporary
arts, Centers Georges Pompidou from 20 December 2006 until 19 February 2007.
[edit] Memorabilia and merchandise

Soft toy versions of Snowy (Milou)

Images from the series have long been licensed for use on merchandise; the success of the Tintin
magazine helping to create a market for such items. Tintin's image has been used to sell a wide
variety of products, from alarm clocks to underpants.[61] There are now estimated to be over 250
separate items related to the character available, with some becoming collectors items in their
own right.[62]
Since Hergé's death, the Hergé Foundation have maintained control of the licenses, through
Moulinsart, the commercial wing of the foundation. Speaking in 2002, Peter Horemans, the then
director general at Moulinsart, noted this control: "We have to be very protective of the property.
We don’t take lightly any potential partners and we have to be very selective ... for him to
continue to be as popular as he is, great care needs to be taken of his use."[63] However, the
Foundation has been criticised by scholars as "trivialising the work of Hergé by concentrating on
the more lucrative merchandising" in the wake of a move in the late 1990s to charge them for
using relevant images to illustrate their papers on the series.[64]
NBC Universal acquired the rights to all of The Adventures of Tintin merchandise in North
America.
[edit] Shops
The Tintin Shop in Covent Garden, London
Tintin memorabilia and merchandise has allowed a chain of stores based solely on the character
to become viable. The first shop was launched in 1984, located in Covent Garden, London,
though subsequently branches have also opened in both Bruges and Brussels in Belgium, and in
Montpellier, France. The British bookstore chain, Ottakar's, which was founded in 1987, was
named after the character of King Ottokar from the Tintin book King Ottokar's Sceptre, and their
shops stocked a large amount of Tintin merchandise till their takeover by Waterstone's in 2006.
[65]
There are also a number of Tintin themed cafés located around the world.[citation needed].
[edit] Stamps
Main article: Tintin on postage stamps
Tintin's image has been used on postage stamps on numerous occasions,[66] the first issued by the
Belgian Post in 1979[67] to celebrate the day of youth philately. This was the first in a series of
stamps with the images of Belgian comic heroes, and was the first stamp in the world to feature a
comic hero.
In 1999, the Royal Dutch Post released two stamps, based upon the Destination Moon adventure,
with the stamps selling out within hours of release. The French post office, Poste Française, then
issued a stamp of Tintin and Snowy in 2001. To mark the end of the Belgian Franc, and also to
celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Tintin in the Congo, two more stamps
were issued by the Belgian Post on 31 December 2001. The stamps were also issued in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo at the same time. 2002 saw the French Post issue stamped
envelopes featuring Tintin, whilst in 2004 the Belgian post-office celebrated its own seventy-
fifth anniversary, as well as the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Explorers on the Moon
and the thirty-fifth anniversary of the moon landings with a series of stamps based upon the
Explorers on the Moon adventure.[68] In 2007, to celebrate Hergé's centennial, Belgium, France
and Switzerland all plan to issue special stamps in commemoration.[69]
[edit] Coins & Medallions
Besides stamps, Tintin has also been commemorated by coin several times. In 1995, Monnaie de
Paris issued a set of 12 silver medallions to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hergé's death,
which were available in a limited edition of 5000. Another coin was released to commemorate
the 50th anniversary of the Tintin book Explorers on the Moon, again in a limited run, this time
of 10,000. Belgium minted a limited edition commemorative coin to celebrate the 75th birthday
of Tintin in January 2004.[70] The coin, composed of silver and featuring Tintin and Snowy, was
limited to a minting of 50,000. Although it has a face value of €10, it is, as with other
commemorative euro coins of this type (i.e. not a commemorative issue of a standard euro coin),
only legal tender in the country in which it was issued - in this case, Belgium.[70]
[edit] Books
Main article: List of books about Tintin
A large number of books have been published about Tintin, by authors including Michael Farr,
Benoit Peeters, Philippe Goddin and Frederic Tuten.
[edit] Translation into English
The process of translating Tintin into English was a complex affair, commissioned in 1958 by
Methuen & Co. Ltd. of London. It was a joint-operation, headed by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and
Michael Turner,[71] who worked closely with Hergé to attain an accurate translation as true as
possible to the original work.[72] The works were also sold in the American market by Golden
Books, a branch of the Western Publishing Company in the 1950s. The albums were translated
from French into American English with some blocks blanked except for the speech balloons.
This was done to remove content considered to be inappropriate for children, such as
drunkenness and free mixing of races.[73] The albums were not very popular and only six were
published in mixed order.[74] The edited albums later had their blanked blocks redrawn by Hergé
to be more acceptable, and they currently appear this way in published editions around the world.
Atlantic Monthly Press, in cooperation with Little, Brown and Company beginning in the 1970s,
published the albums again. This time, the text features the originally translated British English
text with alterations to localized British words such as jail, tyre, saloon and spanner. Currently,
they are being published under the Joy Street imprint of Little, Brown and Company.
Due in part to the large amount of language-specific word play (such as punning) in the series,
especially the jokes which played on Professor Calculus' partial deafness, it was always the
intention not to translate literally, instead striving to sculpt a work whose idioms and jokes would
be meritorious in their own right; however, in spite of the free hand Hergé afforded the two, they
worked closely with the original text, asking for regular assistance to understand Hergé's
intentions.[72]
More than simple translations, however, the English versions were anglicised to appeal to British
customs and values. Milou, for example, was renamed Snowy at the translators' discretion.
Moreover, the translation process served to colour the imagery within the book; the opportunity
was taken to make scenes set in Britain more true-to-life, such as ensuring that the British police
were unarmed, and ensuring scenes of the British countryside were more accurate for discerning
British readers.[72]
Unlike in the United Kingdom, the books have always had very limited popularity in the United
States.[75]
[edit] Legacy
Tintin and his creator Hergé have inspired many artists within comics. Most notably, Hergé's
ligne claire style has proven influential. Contributors to the Tintin magazine have employed ligne
claire, and more recently, Jacques Tardi, Yves Chaland, Jason Little, Phil Elliott, Martin
Handford, Geoff Darrow, and Garen Ewing have produced works utilising it.
Tintin's legacy includes the establishment of a market for comic strip collections; the
serialisation followed by collection model has been adopted by creators and publishers in France
and Belgium. This system allows for greater financial stability, as creators receive money whilst
working. This rivals the American and British model of work for hire. Roger Sabin has argued
that this model allowed for "in theory ... a better quality product".[76] Paul Gravett has also noted
that the use of detailed reference material and a picture archive, which Hergé implemented from
The Blue Lotus onwards, was "a turning point ... in the maturing of the medium as a whole".[8]
In the wider art world, both Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein have claimed Hergé as one of
their most important influences. Lichtenstein made paintings based on fragments from Tintin's
comics, whilst Warhol utilised the ligne claire and even made a series of paintings with Hergé as
subject. He declared: "Hergé has influenced my work in the same way as Walt Disney. For me,
Hergé was more than a comic strip artist".[77]
In music, Tintin has been the inspiration to a number of bands and musicians. A British
technopop band of the 1980s took the name The Thompson Twins after the Tintin characters.[78]
Stephen Duffy, a former member of Duran Duran, performed the minor hit single "Kiss Me"
under the name "Tintin"; he had to drop the name under pressure of a copyright infringement
suit.[79] An Australian psychedelic rock band and an American independent progressive rock
band have used the name "Tin Tin", and British electronic dance music duo Tin Tin Out was
similarly inspired by the character. South African singer/songwriter Gert Vlok Nel compares
Tintin to God in his Afrikaans song "Waarom ek roep na jou vanaand", presumably because
Tintin is a morally pure character. Australian cartoonist Bill Leak often portrays the bespectacled
neophyte Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd as Tintin.
Hergé has been lauded as "creating in art a powerful graphic record of the 20th century's tortured
history" through his work on Tintin.[80] whilst Maurice Horn's Encyclopaedia of World Comics
declares him to have "spear-headed the post World War II renaissance of European comic art".[81]
French philosopher Michel Serres noted that the 23 Tintin albums constituted a "chef-d'oeuvre"
to which "the work of no French novelist is comparable in importance or greatness".[82]
On May 30, 2010, a life-sized bronze statue of Tintin and Snowy, and more than 200 other Tintin
items, including many original panels by Hergé, sold for 1.08 million euros ($1.3 million USD)
at a Paris auction.[83]
[edit] Awards
On 1 June 2006, the Dalai Lama bestowed the International Campaign for Tibet's Light of Truth
Award upon the character of Tintin, along with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.[84] The
award was in recognition of Hergé's book Tintin in Tibet, which the Executive Director of ICT
Europe Tsering Jampa noted was "(f)or many ... their introduction to the awe-inspiring landscape
and culture of Tibet".[85] In 2001 the Hergé Foundation demanded the recall of the Chinese
translation of the work, which had been released with the title Tintin in China's Tibet. The work
was subsequently published with the correct translation of the title.[86] Accepting on behalf of the
Hergé Foundation, Hergé's widow Fanny Rodwell declared: "We never thought that this story of
friendship would have a resonance more than 40 years later".[84]
[edit] Quotations
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• Charles de Gaulle once said "My only international rival is Tintin".[87]

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• Benoît Peeters (1984) Les Bijoux ravis, une lecture moderne de Tintin. Magic-Strip.
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• Pinaki Roy. Non seulement un correspondant a visage poupin: Detecting Herge's
Ideologies in the Tintin Albums. The Atlantic Literary Review Quarterly International.
Vol. 11, No. 1, January-March 2010. Pp. 111-24. ISBN 978-81-269-1420-3
• "Faces of the week" by Andrew Walker, BBC Magazine, 16 December 2005, retrieved
27 January 2005
[edit] Further reading
• Jessel, Stephen (1998-11-29). "Crazy for Tintin". BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/223861.stm.
• "Tintin on trial". BBC News. 1999-02-04.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/271249.stm.
• "Tintin conquers China". BBC News. 2001-05-23.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1346606.stm.
• Dowling, Stephen (2004-01-09). "Boy reporter still a global hero". BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3382633.stm.
• Pandey, Geeta (2005-09-28). "Tintin ventures into India's rural markets". BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4284356.stm.
• "Bid to ban 'racist' Tintin book". BBC News. 2007-07-12.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6294670.stm.
• "Book chain moves 'racist' Tintin". BBC News. 2007-07-17.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6902195.stm.
• Joly, Dom (2007-07-30). "How do you tell a six-year-old that Tintin was a bit dodgy?".
Dom Joly. http://www.domjoly.tv/2007/07/30/how-do-you-tell-a-six-year-old-that-tintin-
was-a-bit-dodgy/.
 • Joly, Dom (2007-10-29). "Mad about the boy : Dom Joly's obsesssion with Tintin".
London: The Independent.
http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/features/article3104954.ece.
[edit] External links
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• Tintin official site

• Tintinologist.org- long-established English-language fan site.
• Tintin Books A discussion of Tintin
• Tintin in all known translations
• Fictional flags in the Tintin stories
• Intertintin : Tintin - Kuifje publications by country.

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