Its being heavily rumored but not yet confirmed that Andy Serkis will play Captain Haddock. Serkis made is name playing Gollum in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings. As Peter Jackson is directing one of the Tintin movies and his production company is doing all the CGI, I’m not surprised that the excellent Andy Serkis is on-board.

Via The Ephemerist

A good introduction to Tintin and French comics in general from the Louisville, Kentucky Courier Journal.

Tintin is part of the Belgo-French tradition of Bande Dessinées, or BDs, hard-bound comic books read by children and adults, featuring a vivid, fitfully funny panorama of inventors, conquerors, roving reporters, intellectual slackers, quality art and spot-on satire.

The most famous BD hero of all, Tintin is “a lovable, simple character people could project themselves onto,” said Christian Hill, an assistant professor of illustration and comic art at California State University Fullerton.

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Chris of Comics 212 documents his trip to Japan which included a trip to a Japanese Tintin Store completed with the Tintin albums reformatted to more closely resemble manga books.

Rather than shrinking the art, they decided instead to cut-and-paste the panels and pages to create a thicker, more ‘manga-sized’ expeirence. And in black and white too. I’d be surprised if this particular translation/reformat wasn’t actually handled in France, because it’s pretty-much a note-perfect translation of the stories from one format to another. I picked up one of these for a diehard Tintin fan that we know, and he loved it. Cool beans!

Harajuku Part 2: Peanuts, Tintin, Moomin

This cartoon comments on the ongoing debate about Herge and Racism .

From balthazarb via The Ephemerist

TIn support of Oxfam’s Fair Trade campaign, Flemish cartoonist Gerard Alsteens has created this image. Tintin is strangely disguised, possibly because of the Moulinsart anti-art policy. With the Tintin Movies, I’m sure that the estates and studios will get even stricter about clamping down on unauthorised but perfectly legal uses of Tintin. (Via The Ephemerist).