#Tintin magazine

[eddiemort]

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

[bilibliophl]

Liliane & Fred Funcken - cover illustration for L'histoire du monde.

[frencharchivist]

[vespalover24]

Haddock and Fantasio they remind me of Husk and Baxter and Moxxie reminds me Tintin

[ask-reportertintin]

Admin: My friend Adam have crush of Spirou and call him ginger 😅

[tintinology]

He's so baby <3

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Magazine - Le Petit Vingtième (Jan1933)

[personnage-neutre]

I have a couple questions for the colorist

[basilepesso]

Puisque ça a passionné les foules, je mets la réponse à la devinette de l'autre jour (que tout le monde a déjà oubliée...) : la spécificité visuelle du Capitaine Haddock est que ses yeux sont...blancs. BP. Placebo, Black Eyed

[the-ramona]

Croc Magazine #94 cover and concept sketches, by Pierre Durand, 1987. Croc was a Quebecois satire and commentary magazine, and for their gay-themed issue, a twink version of Tintin and leather daddy Haddock were featured on the cover. They do not appear elsewhere in the issue, but artist Durand also created three test sketches.

[carrie-tate]

I share concepts and ideas about oc for Tintin fandom:

About what’s in my head — I really want the character–journalist (yeah, so that when she meet Tintin she’ll be like “OH, FELLOW REPORTER!”), while making her come from Russia (taking into account the approximate time period when the animated series was released, and I I rely mainly on it, this is the early nineties, that is, there is no “Iron Curtain” and it was possible to implement foreign journalism)

Of course, given her age, she obviously managed to see both the USSR and its collapse. She most likely could have worked as a correspondent collecting information for some not very popular magazine about different parts of the world (although given the time... I think on the contrary this would have been popular, everyone would have wanted to know what places and events were happening outside the country)

I have no exact idea what kind of cameras there were at that time, but it seems like there were Polaroids even then. So I think she could afford one (although I don’t know how to shoot with them, so don’t look at the pose of the hands; it’s not reliable)

I also had the idea that Tatyana (that’s what I called her) at first impression would actually create the image of a business person with a bored face. To play on the stereotype "Russians don't smile"

And only through communication would it be revealed that this stereotype is not very true ^^

[aboardthescheherazade]

Transmasc festival-goer Tintin, on the cover of Bikini Magazine's Summer 2016 issue. Art by Vincent Pavy.

[incomingalbatross]

Top five favorite puns?

Thank you for the ask! Unfortunately, the second I got it I forgot every pun I've ever heard and also what a pun is. (This is the ongoing hazard of ask games.) But I WILL do my best to remember.

Below, mostly in the order I that thought of them:

1. Isaac Asimov wrote a short story called "A Loint of Paw" which ends on a terrible pun, but the story is SO short that I'm going to link to it instead of spoiling the punchline.

(In the process of finding it I discovered that apparently "short story written to create the setup for an elaborate pun" is called a feghoot, after the exploits of Ferdinand Feghoot in multiple sci-fi magazines from the 50s to the 70s. Rocky & Bullwinkle was also VERY big on these, but I didn't know they had a name.)

2. The Stan O' War is technically a pun, and I love it, so it goes here as Gravity Falls representation. (Could I fill this entire list with Gravity Falls puns? Probably, but I'll try for variety instead.)

3. In Tomb of the Cybermen, the Doctor explains that he cleverly foiled the Cybermats' attack by frying their electronic brains with a high current, giving them "a complete metal breakdown." This gets a shout-out not just for the pun itself but for Jamie's immediate, pained "ooh" and the Doctor's "I'm so sorry, Jamie." Love a good reaction to a pun.

4. Not specific puns, but rich sources of puns which I like: the aforementioned Rocky & Bullwinkle, character names and other gags in Tintin (Jolyon Wagg), and Discworld (these puns are too clever for me and I am TERRIBLE at picking them up by myself, but even so).

5. Willfully misinterpreting "I'll be back" as "I'll be Bach," in order to respond either A) "I'll be Mozart" or B) "I'll be Haydn, so you won't see me"

[surfingkaliyuga]

Cover of the 52nd issue of the Tintin Magazine published in 1947.

[nerd-goes-blogging]

how did I get here?

('bout how I became a dedicated Tintin fan)

You know, there’s a reason I call Tintin and Snowy my favourite.

I met them when I was 12 years old, in a dusty corner of my school library. An instant connection developed between us and since then we had never been apart. 

On his birthday, 9th January, my thoughts turned nostalgic about the young reporter who brightened and inspired my teenage years. Well, back then I wrote a journal entry dedicated to him and his glorious adventures. While creating this blog, the first content that came to my mind was this journal entry.

So, why not?

Here's to all those amazing memories I’ve made so far with this reporter and many more to come.

Back in middle school days, I remember searching for a book series to follow diligently. There were many of them. Mostly fantasies and fictions and dark romance. Some were menacing and awkward. As a whole, not an ideal read for me, I thought. I didn’t (and still don’t) want my head to be occupied with weird thoughts which yield nothing. But I knew my search would end one day. And it did.. 

One day, rummaging through the junior library at school, I noticed some illustrated books, which resembled the comics’s style but quite refined. With the librarian's permission I opened the locked up cabinet which seemed to have jammed due to rust.

That was my pirate treasure, a bounty which I was lucky enough to stumble upon.

The first book which I read from the series was ‘The Castafiore’s Emerald’. The only adventure completely based in the Marlinspike Hall, gives a cozy kind of feeling. Not only did I appreciate Tintin's wits, but I was also amused by Captain Haddock’s funny curses and alliteration which were insulting enough to trash anyone. I really felt that I was where I belonged. I decided to stick to it and started to gather more information and facts about the young protagonist and his brilliant creator, Hergé . The internet, of course, helped me to a great extent as all 24 volumes of the adventures were available there. Also, that was my first year learning french. When Madame came to know about my new hobby, she encouraged me to carry it further and suggested that I'd get the gist of both, the language and the stories, if I read them in french. So, I did that, and how! By the end of middle school, I had read all 24 volumes, some in french as well.

Since then, I’ve read the whole series many times. I've lost count of the number of times I've ...

cheered when Tintin fought Bobby Smiles in Chicago in the book ‘Tintin in America’, 

gasped at the revelation of Rastapopoulos as an antagonist in ‘The Blue Lotus’ (who continued on to become the prime villain in the series), 

chuckled to see (or hear) Bianca Castafiore’s god forsaken singing and Tintin’s reaction in ‘King Ottokar’s Sceptre’, 

been amused at the introduction of Captain Haddock into the series in ‘The Crab with Golden Claws’, 

got my funny bone tickled as Captain Haddock grouched on Professor Cuthbert Calculus’ “hard of hearing” trouble, 

got thrilled with the hero’s treasure hunt in ‘The Secret of the Unicorn’

got terrified at the vengeance of Inca Rascar Capac and Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock’s quest to release the professor from the captivity of the Incas in ‘The Seven Crystal Balls’ & ‘The Prisoners of the Sun’ (this story is hands down my most fav :)

greeted the Emir and his son Abdullah (devil’s incarnation) in ‘Land of Black Gold’, 

followed the friends to the moon and back (literally!) 

visited Borduria and Syldavia, 

cried my heart out (when I first read it, I was so touched) in the joyous reunion of Tintin and Tchang, 

rolled with laughter on seeing the magazine cover of Paris Flash in ‘The Castafiore Emerald’, 

encountered all sorts of people (even aliens! in ‘flight 714’) 

and went to an extent of a military coup for General Alcazar. 

Oh, and not to forget the cliffhanger of the unfinished ‘Tintin and the Alph-art’ (left for fans to complete it with our imagination, I like to believe!)

 

Phew! The list is much longer than this & the memories are limitless!!

You might wonder why I'm so into Tintin's adventures and what makes him different from other comic book heroes? 

More importantly, what made me stay? 

You can find this out and more in my next blog.

Until then, stay nerdy ✨👩‍🎓

The Nerdy Olive :)