Tintin Is Art!
The Pompidou Centre in Paris has accepted a Tintin strip to be part of its permanent collection. The first comic strip to be included in the gallery.
An original black and white strip, signed by Tintin’s Belgian creator Herge and donated by his widow Fanny Rodwell, comes from the 1956 story, The Calculus Affair, the 18th of the Tintin adventures.
Pompidou contemporary art museum curator Benoit Peers said that the donation could lead the way for the acquisition of more comic strips.
“One can say that Herge remains a pioneer and that Tintin, once again, has shown the way.” he told Le Figaro.
From: Tintin enters Pompidou Centre’s modern art collection in Paris
This is the page in question, I believe, though in black & white and presumably in French.
