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Travels of a Boy Reporter

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:31:54 +0000

By popular demand, the highly praised Travels of a Boy Reporter has returned. This map tracks the journey of Tintin in his 23 adventures across the world.

Download & Print

The map is available as a download for just £10. Once you’ve downloaded it you are free to use it how you wish (non-commercially only). Print it out, have t-shirts made, use it as your computer’s desktop. You are free to use it however you want.

It comes in a variety of sizes ranging from the small 480×320 pixels, suitable for an iPhone, to the huge 6679×4722 pixels, suitable for an A1 poster.

Find out more about the map or skip to chase and buy it now.

High resolution graphics with license to print and use the map for any non-commercial purpose.

Original Herge Tintin Drawings

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:10:56 +0000

Last Sunday, an auction of Tintin and Herge memorabilia smashed national and international records. The highlights of the auction were a handful of original pages drawn by the man himself. All the pages are reproduced below, taken from the auction catalog. If you are interested in Tintin memrobilia then I advise you to have a look through the catalog but these drawings are the real gems.

My favourite are the pages from Flight 714, particularly the sketch pages. In the image of Tintin with his hands behind his back we can see how fine an artist Herge was. Also, the strange figure in the bottom left hand corner. It is an odd mix of styles, half realistic, half modern art. The pages from The Castafiore Emerald are great examples of how Herge refined the story as he drew. Look how the sequence and point of view of the images changes between the original and the inked work.

Many thanks to MetaBunker for finding these.

Herge & the Infrasound

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:16:29 +0000

In the 1920′s and 30′s, before RADAR was developed, there were various attempts at developing an acoustic system that literally listen to the sound of approaching planes. An example of this can be seen in King Ottakar’s Scepture.

In the UK, massive concrete acoustic mirrors were built that focused the sound into a microphone, allowing planes to be detected earlier. Now these crumbling structures are to be saved as national landmarks.

Its amazing that technology Herge used as cutting edge science in his early books is now needing preservation orders and listing as a national landmark.

More Info: Britain’s vast cement “listening ears” designated a national landmark