Tintin in America: The Official Classic Children’s Illustrated Mystery Adventure Series (The Adventures of Tintin)

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Confused by the cult of Tintin? You're not alone". BBC News. London. 9 January 2009. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013 . Retrieved 3 March 2018. After Hergé's death in 1983, his art began to be honoured at exhibitions around the world, keeping Tintin awareness at a high level. Youth philately, Tintin 1v". PostBeeld.com (Netherlands). 2010. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013 . Retrieved 22 June 2013. Michael Farr deemed Tintin to be an intrepid young man of high moral standing, with whom his audience can identify. His rather neutral personality permits a balanced reflection of the evil, folly, and foolhardiness that surrounds him, allowing the reader to assume Tintin's position within the story rather than merely following the adventures of a strong protagonist. Tintin's iconic representation enhances this aspect, with comics expert Scott McCloud noting that the combination of Tintin's iconic, neutral personality and Hergé's "unusually realistic", signature ligne claire ("clear line") style "allows the reader to mask themselves in a character and safely enter a sensually stimulating world."

He invited me to this wonderful restaurant, still the best in Brussels, called Comme Chez Soi. I had a very memorable lunch with him. He was a celebrity and did indeed hate publicity. We sat in a corner which was screened off so other people didn’t see that he was there, which was rather typical of him. It was a marvellous lunch with good wine – Hergé was a great connoisseur of wine – but one of the worst interviews I ever had. He didn’t want to talk about himself. Whenever I asked him a question, he turned it around and asked me one. But it lead to further encounters, a bit of a friendship and real insight into his work.Apostolidès, Jean-Marie (2010) [2006]. The Metamorphoses of Tintin, or Tintin for Adults. Jocelyn Hoy (translator). Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-6031-7. Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan (2 February 2010). "In and Out of History". The New Republic. Washington, D.C. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013 . Retrieved 11 March 2011. How to tell a Thompson from a Thomson". The Tintin Trivia Quiz. 2006. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013 . Retrieved 9 September 2006.

The Blue Lotus is the biggest step forward in the Tintin catalogue – it marks the point when Hergé started researching his locations more deeply. The sudden transformation of Tintin from cavalier colonialist to defender of the downtrodden gives the series depth. The plot drops the manic escapades of early Tintin for more dignified and character-driven storytelling. Soumous, Frederic (1 April 2004). "Tintin et l'exposition de la ville, Bruxelles"[Tintin and the City exhibition, Brussels]. Le Soir (in French). Brussels. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013 . Retrieved 14 June 2013. Pain, Stephanie (April 2004). "Welcome to the moon, Mr Armstrong". New Scientist. 182 (2441): 48–49 . Retrieved 4 May 2013. While it’s not inspired directly by current events, The Calculus Affair perfectly captures the cold war tensions of the 1950s. An espionage thriller, it couples the fast-paced action of early Tintin stories with the sophistication of later adventures, creating the best Tintin book.

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Christensen, Claus (November 2003). "Boy Scout with Strange Dreams—"Tintin et moi" ". Danish Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 May 2006 . Retrieved 9 September 2006.

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. [53] Yusuf, Bulent (14 November 2005). "Alphabetti Fumetti: H is for Hergé". Ninth Art. Archived from the original on 31 May 2013 . Retrieved 22 December 2012.Hergé's Adventures of Tintin ( Les aventures de Tintin d'après Hergé) (1957) was the first production of Belvision Studios. [104] Ten of Hergé's books were adapted, each serialised into a set of five-minute episodes, with 103 episodes produced. [e] The series was directed by Ray Goossens and written by Belgian comic artist Greg, later editor-in-chief of Tintin magazine, and produced by Raymond Leblanc. [f] Most stories in the series varied widely from the original books, often changing whole plots. [104] Hergé has been lauded as "creating in art a powerful graphic record of the 20th century's tortured history" through his work on Tintin, [117] whilst Maurice Horn's World Encyclopedia of Comics declares him to have "spear-headed the post-World War II renaissance of European comic art". [168] French philosopher Michel Serres noted that the twenty-three completed Tintin albums constituted a " chef-d'oeuvre" ("masterpiece") to which "the work of no French novelist is comparable in importance or greatness". [169] also saw an exhibition in Halles Saint Géry in Brussels titled Tintin et la ville ("Tintin and the City") showcasing all cities in the world Tintin had travelled. [155] Sadoul, Numa (1975). Tintin et moi: entretiens avec Hergé[ Tintin and I: Interviews with Hergé] (in French). Tournai: Casterman. ISBN 978-2-08-080052-7.