A couple of re-imaginings of Tintin.

Tintin Versus Predator

Tintin Versus Predator

Tintin (not) doing the Batusi

Not Batusi – Tintin and Snowy by Jeff Lemire

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.

This Tintin image just leaves me wanting to know more.

It comes from a fanzine writer / blogger / illustrator by the name of Frits Jonker who once did some illustrations for another fanzine writer, by the name of Anton Hermus.

Anton Hermus died a few years ago. When I was sixteen I started a correspondence with him. He published a private magazine about Tintin, called “Het Brilliantinepotje”. It was one of the weirdest zines I ever read, so when he asked me to make some illustrations for him, I gladly did that. In 1982 he wrote a little book about his rather paranoia ideas about Tintin …

I cannot help but wonder what paranoid ideas you can have about Tintin.

Source: Anton Hermus

I know nothing about this poster other than it came from BAPOM’s collection of posters and it is mentioned here.

Thanks to Toyota GB PR for finding this.

This picture and news story turned up in my morning reading because the dog’s name is Tintin. Personally, if I had a terrier I would call it Snowy even if it wasn’t white but that is just me.

Tintin is being scanned at a special veterinary CT scanner in New Zealand. Read all about it: CT scanner for Massey

Someone has chopped up a copy of Flight 714 and used it to decorate a notebook. One part of me hates the idea of cutting any book, let alone a Tintin book, to pieces is wrong but another part of me thinks this is great. I want a notebook like that. There is a shot of the inside covers here: the adventures of tin tin and us

Roy Lichtenstein, one of the great artists of the 20th century, was famous for his cartoony style. His bright colours and overblown, comic book art made his art highly distinctive but also accessible. Like many in the Pop Art movement, he explored the difference between art and crowd pleasing illustration. By taking existing comic book images and reproducing them, complete with Benday Dots, on a large scale, he challenges preconceptions about what is art.

It is not surprising that Liechtenstein should cross paths with Tintin. The bold lines and strong colours of Herge are a natural fit to Liechenstein’s own work. So when his long-time friend, Frederic Tuten, said he was writing a book using the character of Tintin re-imagined as an full grown adult, the artist supplied two pieces of art featuring Tintin.

“Tintin Reading” was used as the cover to Tintin in the New World and shows Tintin reading newspaper as an assassin’s dagger whistles past. In the back ground can be seen a depiction of Henri Matisse’s “Dance (I)“. This reference to Matisse is far from accidental. Matisse use of colour, particularly as part of Fauvism was highly influencal on artist throught out the 20th centry, including Lictenstein.

The second work for the book is entitled “Interior with Painting of Tintin. This looks like an early sketch for the cover work. The scene is almost identical except that Tintin has moved from the foreground and become a painting replacing Matisse’s Dance (i).

The first on-set photos of the Tintin filming have been released by Empire Magazine

The photo shows Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis in motion capture suits talking to Steven Spielberg. In the background can be seen images from the books, particularly Thompson & Thomson, stuck on the the walls.

The picture comes from Empire Magazie’s 20th anniversary issue which has a special guest editor, Steven Spielberg. More photos are promised when the magazine comes out.

VGRetro is a series of vidCasts reviewing old computer games and episode 11 features a review of Tintin in Tibet for the Sega Mega Drive. I had no idea there had been Tintin videos games before though no doubt there will be for the new films. I’m not going to give too much away but here is the brief summary from the web site “Tintin: It had great books, but an awfully bad game… “

A great fan video of Tintin, imagined in the style of the Bourne Identity / Casino Royal gritty action films.

It reminds me of this clip for Gandhi II from Weird Al Yonkovic’s film UHF.

Thanks to Inferior Design for spotting this.