Tintin the Reporter Continues to Make News
Tintin, the timeless, ageless boy reporter, created by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé (Georges Remi), hangs onto a place in the news in the United States, a country which has never embraced him as other countries have, because Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are collaborating on three films of his adventures.
The premiere of the first is scheduled for December 23, 2011 (more), with us Tintin fans in the United States hoping that after that film premieres, we will not be so lonely.
Find out about Tintin the terrorist, Tintin in Australia, Tintin in Quebec, Tintin in China (and in a Chinese restaurant), as well as Tintin and Avatar.
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12 February 2010
03 June 2009
Tintin Meets Thomson, Thompson, and Captain Haddock
Tintin's Adventures Are Enriched with a Cast of Intriguing Characters
Besides Tintin's dog Snowy, his creator Hergé gives Tintin a circle of companions who reappear in various stories to bring distinct personalities and humor to the tales of Tintin. Hergé was associated with the Boy Scouts throughout his life, and in some ways, Tintin is a squeaky clean perennial Scout, with a Scout's bag of tricks. Need a propeller for an airplane? No problem, Tintin whittles one... and then flies the plane. Got a sick elephant? No problem, Tintin finds a remedy, just to kill time, learns the elephant language... and makes his own trumpet so that he can communicate with elephants in their own medium.
Thomson and Thompson, the two detectives with their bumbling and stumbling, contribute slapstick humor to the stories. That is a humor Tintin could not pull off, and we really do not want him to.
The most enduring and endearing of the all of Tintin's friends is Captain Haddock, a character that Charles Dickens or Mark Twain would be proud to claim. When he is introduced in The Crab with the Golden Claws, he is a ship captain with such alcoholism that he has no idea of the criminal activity in his ship. At the end of the book, as he is recovering, he passes out after accidentally drinking a glass... of water.
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Besides Tintin's dog Snowy, his creator Hergé gives Tintin a circle of companions who reappear in various stories to bring distinct personalities and humor to the tales of Tintin. Hergé was associated with the Boy Scouts throughout his life, and in some ways, Tintin is a squeaky clean perennial Scout, with a Scout's bag of tricks. Need a propeller for an airplane? No problem, Tintin whittles one... and then flies the plane. Got a sick elephant? No problem, Tintin finds a remedy, just to kill time, learns the elephant language... and makes his own trumpet so that he can communicate with elephants in their own medium.
Thomson and Thompson, the two detectives with their bumbling and stumbling, contribute slapstick humor to the stories. That is a humor Tintin could not pull off, and we really do not want him to.
The most enduring and endearing of the all of Tintin's friends is Captain Haddock, a character that Charles Dickens or Mark Twain would be proud to claim. When he is introduced in The Crab with the Golden Claws, he is a ship captain with such alcoholism that he has no idea of the criminal activity in his ship. At the end of the book, as he is recovering, he passes out after accidentally drinking a glass... of water.
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Tintin's War on Drugs
Cigars of the Pharaoh & the Crab with the Golden Claws
Tintin fought a one-man (or one-boy) war on drugs, ably assisted by his dog Snowy. While drug abuse seems like a modern problem, it has been around for a long time. The fictitious Sherlock Holmes and the real Sigmund Freud shared an addiction (dealt with in the 1976 film, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - more). The Shadow encountered drug smuggling in the 1937 radio episode, The Temple Bells of Neban. The classic anti-drug film, Reefer Madness or Tell Your Children came out in 1936 (more - and you can watch it online here), not long after Tintin's first (1929-1930) appearance, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (more).
Although Cigars of the Pharaoh (1932-1934) and The Crab with the Golden Claws (1940-1941) are not the only Tintin stories that refer to drug smuggling, both of them center on the issue. Even their titles refer to...
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Tintin fought a one-man (or one-boy) war on drugs, ably assisted by his dog Snowy. While drug abuse seems like a modern problem, it has been around for a long time. The fictitious Sherlock Holmes and the real Sigmund Freud shared an addiction (dealt with in the 1976 film, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - more). The Shadow encountered drug smuggling in the 1937 radio episode, The Temple Bells of Neban. The classic anti-drug film, Reefer Madness or Tell Your Children came out in 1936 (more - and you can watch it online here), not long after Tintin's first (1929-1930) appearance, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (more).
Although Cigars of the Pharaoh (1932-1934) and The Crab with the Golden Claws (1940-1941) are not the only Tintin stories that refer to drug smuggling, both of them center on the issue. Even their titles refer to...
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27 April 2009
Tintin on Facebook, Twitter, EBay, Blogs, and Online Forums
Tintin's Adventures on the Internet
In the twenty-four books that Belgian comic artist Georges Remi, under the penname Hergé, wrote about the indefatigable reporter Tintin (who somehow hardly ever got around to reporting), the one-named hero traveled far, all the way to the moon.
As the Internet has grown, so have Tintin's online adventures. If you are not familiar with Tintin (and that should change in the next couple of years, as we get ready for the release of the first of three Tintin movies by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson), certainly the best way to "meet" him is online. Then, of course, don't forget to read the books.
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In the twenty-four books that Belgian comic artist Georges Remi, under the penname Hergé, wrote about the indefatigable reporter Tintin (who somehow hardly ever got around to reporting), the one-named hero traveled far, all the way to the moon.
As the Internet has grown, so have Tintin's online adventures. If you are not familiar with Tintin (and that should change in the next couple of years, as we get ready for the release of the first of three Tintin movies by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson), certainly the best way to "meet" him is online. Then, of course, don't forget to read the books.
Read more...
24 April 2009
Gangsters, Cops, Cowboys, Indians, Tycoons Welcome Tintin to America
Tintin's American Adventures Are Very Adventurous
In Tintin in America, the third Tintin story, Hergé gets so many things right. Tintin has a very specific purpose in this book. Following his encounter with some of Al Capone's henchmen in the previous adventure, Tintin in the Congo, Tintin comes to America, specifically to Chicago, to clean up Capone's operations at home.
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In Tintin in America, the third Tintin story, Hergé gets so many things right. Tintin has a very specific purpose in this book. Following his encounter with some of Al Capone's henchmen in the previous adventure, Tintin in the Congo, Tintin comes to America, specifically to Chicago, to clean up Capone's operations at home.
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11 April 2009
Acquired growth hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a subject with repeated head trauma,
Or Tintin goes to the neurologist
We describe the unique case of a public figure who is well known for having delayed pubertal development and statural growth. We believe we have discovered why Tintin, the young reporter whose stories were published between 1929 and 1975, never grew taller and never needed to shave.
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We describe the unique case of a public figure who is well known for having delayed pubertal development and statural growth. We believe we have discovered why Tintin, the young reporter whose stories were published between 1929 and 1975, never grew taller and never needed to shave.
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Why Are There Calls for Tintin's Congo Adventure to Be Banned?
Alleged Racism Still Makes Hergé's Early Story Unpleasant
Ironically, a blogger from Malawi, recently writing to defend Tintin in yet another controversy (here), stated, "Tintin is beloved by many Africans from Malawi, South Africa and all over the world." According to Michael Farr, in his authoritative, Tintin, the Complete Companion (p. 27), Tintin in the Congo is "today the one [of Tintin's adventures] most likely to be encountered in Africa, particularly French-speaking countries where it enjoys special favor."
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Ironically, a blogger from Malawi, recently writing to defend Tintin in yet another controversy (here), stated, "Tintin is beloved by many Africans from Malawi, South Africa and all over the world." According to Michael Farr, in his authoritative, Tintin, the Complete Companion (p. 27), Tintin in the Congo is "today the one [of Tintin's adventures] most likely to be encountered in Africa, particularly French-speaking countries where it enjoys special favor."
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