Check out Gazpachot’s blog for surreal imagery including this Tintin / Titanic comparison.

Meanwhile, On Jon’s Random Acts of Geekery, he has a a guide to drawing Tintin.

Two of my favourite characters going face to face.

This fantastic image was created by Malcolm McClinton who does a lot of fantasy and SF based art.

Kate Beaton is a comics creator with a very odd sense of humor and style. Check out her web site for lots more comics but this one jumped out.

Thanks to the Repartee in the LJ Boy Reporter community for spotting this.

Tom McCarthy’s 2006 book, Tintin and the Secret of Literature is reviewed in the Los Angeles Times.

In France in particular, Tintin became a cottage industry, his exploits fodder for philosophers, psychoanalysts and literary critics, all of whom McCarthy leans on in asking, “Is ‘Tintin’ literature?” He notes the “huge irony . . . that the ‘Tintin’ books remain both unrivaled in their complexity and depth and so simple, even after more than half a century, that a child can read them with the same involvement as an adult.” But the question of whether they’re literature is not as interesting now, given the ascendance of pop culture. McCarthy seems to admit as much when he tweaks his query slightly: “As soon as we ask if ‘Tintin’ should be treated as literature, we raise another question: what is literature?”

From: ‘Tintin and the Secret of Literature’ by Tom McCarthy

Alexis Peskine, a Parisian artist of Afro-Brazilian and Lithuanian Jewish background has done some very interesting work exploring the contradictions in French society. Especially the racism and prejudice against immigrants from former colonies. Inevitably he has tackled Tintin.

The work is called “Tintin and your Kids” and depicts Tintin as skinhead. In the background a Congolese flag lies barely visible on a large stack of tires.

Peskine’s inspiration is drawn from what he regards as an overarching paradox in French society that symbolically awards French identity to all those who accept its norms while at the same time harboring prejudice toward immigrants from France’s former colonies. “It is illegal in France to perform a census that collects ethnic information,” Peskine said during an interview in his studio in Hoboken, N.J. “This idea came from long before immigrants ever arrived in France. There is a denial that there is ethnicity and race within Frenchness.”

From: French-Bred

Alexis Peskine, a Parisian artist of Afro-Brazilian and Lithuanian Jewish background has done some very interesting work exploring the contradictions in French society. Especially the racism and prejudice against immigrants from former colonies. Inevitably he has tackled Tintin.

The work is called “Tintin and your Kids” and depicts Tintin as skinhead. In the background a Congolese flag lies barely visible on a large stack of tires.

Peskine’s inspiration is drawn from what he regards as an overarching paradox in French society that symbolically awards French identity to all those who accept its norms while at the same time harboring prejudice toward immigrants from France’s former colonies. “It is illegal in France to perform a census that collects ethnic information,” Peskine said during an interview in his studio in Hoboken, N.J. “This idea came from long before immigrants ever arrived in France. There is a denial that there is ethnicity and race within Frenchness.”

From: French-Bred

I found these painted metal 28mm(?) miniatures on Monday Night Adventures, a blog on war games and miniatures.

They are produced by Copplestone Castings who lists them as 1920’s Characters - GN9 Sleuths and describes them as Boy Detective and dog.

Sorry about the deviation from Tintin and the Tintin Movie but I wanted to tell you about this beautiful, art deco X-Men.

By Eric Tan

AFP have a interesting story on how Herge’s original paintings for the Tintin strips are becoming highly collectable works of art.

A 1932 oil painted for by the Belgian author Herge for the cover of “Tintin in America” is the star item at a one-off sale of 650 comic originals Saturday in Paris, with a starting price of 280,000 euros (440,000 dollars).

“A museum piece. Sublime,” writes the Artcurial gallery and auction house, which is organising the sale, in its catalogue.

Source: Comic book originals break into art market

Originally a story from the Daily Mail, the rumor that Thomas Sangster has been cast as Tintin is getting stronger. The Telegraph has no new information except that are 100% certain. There is none of the fudging found in the Mail’s story such as “is about to sign…”.

I doubt that the Telegraph has any better sources of information that the Mail so I think this is just bad reporting. Sangster being cast is a just a rumour, one of many like Simon Pegg being cast as Tintin, though he does have the looks to make a good Tintin.

The Telegraph goes on to say that they don’t know which of the Tintin Books is being made into the film. Obviously they haven’t read this blog. We reported back in October that Red Rackham’s Treasure & Crab With The Golden Claws to be the Tintin Movies . Logically, Crab With The Golden Claws will be the first Tintin movie as this book introduces Captain Haddock.

Souce: Spielberg casts British teenager as Tintin