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Tongue • Lash #1: The Serpent's Tooth

by Randy Lofficier; Jean-Marc Lofficier;Dave Taylor;Scarlett Smulkowski

Dark Horse

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Map from Moebius' Arzach novel by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier.

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Free to Borrow Books about Tintin and Hergé

The only requirement is to make an Internet Archive account. (If you already have an account, check if it was compromised in the recent hack and change your password.) Note that this is in no way a comprehensive list of works or an ideal Tintinology primer, just the books that have been made available on the archive, which also means that it contains everything from picture books to highly academic texts. However, I've marked with a * the books I think are best to start with.

Includes works in both English and French (plus a few in Spanish). Please don't hesitate to ask if you have questions!

General reference

Tintin and the world of Hergé Benoît Peeters, 1989*

Tintin, Hergé and his creation Harry Thompson, 1991

Tintin: The Complete Companion Michael Farr, 2001*

The Pocket Essential Tintin (1st ed.) / (2nd ed.) Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, 2002 / 2007

Les mystères du Lotus Bleu Pierre Fresnault-Desruelle, 2006

Captain Haddock Thompson and Thomson Professor Calculus Rastapopoulos (FR) Tchang (FR) Michael Farr, 2007

Figurines Tintin: La Collection Officielle Daniel Couvreur, Frédéric Soumois, & Dominique Maricq, 2012-2015

Hergé Dada magazine, 2016

Catalogues

Hergé, 1922-1932 : les debuts d'un illustrateur ed. Benoît Peeters, 1987

Hergé dessinateur ed. Pierre Sterckx & Benoît Peeters, 1988

The adventures of Tintin at sea Yves Horeau, 2004

Musée Hergé / Tintin : the art of Hergé Michel Daubert, 2013*

L'univers du createur de Tintin Artcurial, 2023

Biography

Hergé : portrait biographique Thierry Smolderen & Pierre Sterckx, 1988

Entretiens avec Hergé / Conversations with Hergé (excerpts) Numa Sadoul, 1989*

Hergé / Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin (abridged translation) Pierre Assouline, 1996

Les Aventures d'Hergé / The Adventures of Hergé Jean-Luc Fromental, José-Louis Bocquet, & Stanislas, 1999

Hergé, fils de Tintin / Hergé, son of Tintin Benoît Peeters, 2002

The adventures of Hergé, creator of Tintin Michael Farr, 2007

Hergé: lignes de vie Philippe Goddin, 2007

Analysis

Le Monde de Tintin Pol Vandromme, 1959

Tintin chez le psychanalyste Serge Tisseron, 1985

Hergé écrivain Jan Baetens, 1989

L’archipel Tintin A. Algoud, J.-M. Apostolidès, D. Cerbelaud, B. Peeters, P. Sterckx, 2003

Tintin and the secret of literature Tom McCarthy, 2008

Les Secrets d'Hergé dessinateur Bruno Cassiers, 2022

Fiction & Novelizations

Ma vie de chien Ariane Valadié, 1994

Tintin in the new world / Tintin en el nuevo mundo François Tuten, 1996

La vie cachée de Tintin Henri Roanne-Rosenblatt, 2005

Petit dictionnaire énervé de Tintin Albert Algoud, 2010

The Adventures of Tintin: a novel / Les Aventures de Tintin: le roman du film / Las aventuras de Tintín Alex Irvine, 2011

The adventures of Tintin : the chapter book (print disability borrow only) / Les aventures de Tintin: l'album du film Stephanie Peters, 2011

Tintin's daring escape / Les évadés du Karaboudjan / Fuga temeraria Danger at sea / Peligro en el mar The mystery of the missing wallets Kirsten Mayer, 2011

Trivia

Êtes-vous tintinologue? François Hébert, 1983

Tintin and Snowy Big Activity Book Guy Harvey & Simon Beecroft, 2006

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JACK RUSSELL in DOCTOR STRANGE, SORCERER SUPREME (1988) #27 by DANN THOMAS, JEAN-MARC LOFFICIER, RANDY LOFFICIER, and ROY THOMAS

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“The Book of the Vishanti: Legacy of the Wolf Part II,” Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme (Vol. 1/1988), #27.

Writers: Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas, and Jean-Marc Lofficier; Penciler and Inker: Geoff Isherwood; Colorist: Paul Becton; Letterer: Artie Simek

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Reinterpreting the Justice League as Retro Horror and Sci-Fi Films

Inspiration taken from Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier’s trilogy of German Expressionist Elseworlds stories and Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning’s The Superman Monster.

The Dark Night (1939): On an evening in Victorian England, a man is fished out of a river, laughing uncontrollably and gibbering to himself about an enormous bat and the coming of night. He is taken to the Arkham Psychiatric Institute, and the next morning it is discovered that he has complete amnesia and cannot remember any details of his past, nor what his ravings the previous evening meant.

When a wealthy gentleman who is interested in financing the institute visits, the patient begins to have terrible nightmares and hear voices whispering to him from the dark. Soon, orphan children around London begin to go missing, and the patient realizes this wealthy gentleman is, in fact, a vampire. He desperately tries to inform the doctors, but they dismiss him, all while the patient struggles with his mental anguish and resisting the compulsion to join the vampire’s dark crusade.

The day is the his only refuge, until children begin visiting him to laugh at and mock him. He realizes these are thralls of the vampire that he sends to further his agenda during daylight hours, and over the coming weeks his health deteriorates as he lapses back into his half-nervous, half-euphoric laughing tic. Finally, when he can bear it no longer, he resolves to break out of the asylum and kill the vampire himself. The movie ends with ambiguity over whether the man really was a vampire or if the patient was experiencing delusions.

Übermensch (1938): In a quest to create the next stage of our evolution, Dr. Alexander Luther goes to cemeteries around the continent to steal body parts from the most physically and mentally fit humans Europe has ever known. Finally, he returns to his hometown’s church, Our Lady of Mercy, to excavate the body of a beloved friend who died in boyhood.

After digging up the Mercy graves, he removes his friend’s heart and implants it into his creation’s chest before bringing it to life. Luther rejoices at his scientific accomplishment, before realizing that the creature’s sense of morality is completely alien, and it puts no value on human life. Seeing that he has created a monster, Luther vows to destroy it.

Though he designed the Übermensch to be indestructible, he ultimately defeats it by appealing to the memories of innocence and virtue left in his childhood friend’s heart. While the creature has its guard down, he then pushes it into the frigid waters of the arctic, encasing it in ice forevermore.

Wolf Woman (1941): When her estranged father dies, heiress Minerva Rich travels to his home in Greece to have his will sorted out. Shortly after they arrive, a spate of attacks attributed to a large dog occur, but Rich thinks nothing of it until the night she is walking home and is accosted by an enormous lupine beast. No one believes her account until she brings the story to the secretary of her father’s lawyer, whom she has befriended.

At the secretary’s recommendation, Minerva goes to Circe, a mysterious woman living on the outskirts of town who tells her the legend of the werewolf— how when the Greek gods were displeased with someone, they would curse them to transform into a terrible beast by the light of the moon*.

Circe then opens a tome and tells Minerva of an Ancient Greek queen who was barren and begged the gods for a child. The gods agreed, on the condition that on the girl’s eighteenth birthday, she be given up to them. But when the child’s birthday came, her mother refused to let her go, and the gods forcibly took the girl, telling her mother that the child would become an unstoppable warrior, feared by all… but at a terrible price. Since then, the princess has wandered Greece as a werewolf.

Circe gives Minerva an amulet of a cat’s head and says she can help her defeat the wolf, but just like with the gods, all gifts come at a cost. Minerva begins noticing strange feelings of rage and physical changes in the coming nights, until the film’s climax, when she transforms into a panther-woman. Her and the werewolf have a dreadful fight that ends with Minerva piercing the wolf’s heart when both are caught in a snare trap set by the townspeople. As the sun rises, the werewolf transforms into Minerva’s secretary friend and rapidly ages before crumbling into dust in front of her very eyes.

*This isn’t really accurate. I’m going for the old horror trope of “Yeah, it’s an ancient legend that dates all the way back to a week ago when we were in the writer’s room.”

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Ah! You've activated my special interest LOL! The Barnes and Noble edition of Phantom uses the abridged 1911 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation. He unfortunately cut thousands of words from Leroux's novel when he translated it.

This abridgement was likely because de Mattos was pressed for time to complete his translation -- in addition to cutting large sections from Leroux's novel, he also introduced multiple mistranslations. He was a well-known and respected journalist, literary critic, and translator, and the mistakes he makes are likely reflective of his tight deadline. He had less than a year to complete his translation.

De Mattos' translation is actually part of how I got obsessed with Phantom as a teenager. I had read and re-read my used copy of de Mattos, and then I managed to get ahold of the Livre de Poche edition of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, which reproduces the text of Leroux's 1910 first edition. When I read the original French novel, I realized that there were many sections that had been cut from the English translation that I was familiar with, including two chapters that de Mattos had collapsed into one.

That realization led me to do a comparative study of the first edition French text with the available English translations, starting with de Mattos.

It also led me to work on my own translation of Phantom (my Phantom translation project is still ongoing -- I work on it in fits and starts, because I also write for a living, and the shoemaker's son always goes barefoot lolsob).

The easiest way to know that you have a de Mattos translation is if the translator's name is not listed. All other translations in English list the translator's name. De Mattos' translation is out of copyright, and so any publisher can put out an edition of Phantom using his text. Most of the English editions of Phantom use de Mattos' translation.

The English translation that I recommend the most is the Oxford University Press 2012 translation by David Coward. I find his translation to be the most complete and accurate of the available English translations. He also has extensive research notes throughout his translation. Here's a link to it on Amazon (I'm not necessarily recommending buying it through Amazon, but this gives a place to start if you'd like to request that a local bookstore order it). For reference, the ISBN-13 is 978-0199694570.

Coward's translation is not perfect, of course. My largest issue with Coward's translation is that he gives Mme Giry and other "lower class" characters some "Cockney" speech patterns to indicate their social station, but Leroux didn't use any such identifiers. So if you read his translation, take it with a large dose of salt when Mme Giry is speaking.

The other English translations of Phantom are:

Lowell Bair (this is one of my favorites for Bair's writing style, but unfortunately Bair used an abridged French edition of Leroux's text to base his translation, so it's not a complete version)

Leonard Wolf (I don't recommend Wolf, as his language is clunky, and he introduces multiple mistranslations)

Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier (I don't recommend their version, as it is full of errors and mistranslations)

Mireille Ribière (I don't recommend Ribière's version. Despite being a native French speaker, she introduces multiple mistranslations into her English text)

All that said, I do find that de Mattos' writing style comes the closest to capturing Leroux's author voice, out of all of the published English translations of Leroux's novel. If only de Mattos had had more time to complete his translation! If only he hadn't cut so much of Leroux's novel, or introduced so many careless mistranslations. I find that the feel of de Mattos' language is still the best out of the other English translations, but we just have to read him with the caveat that we're not getting Erik's full story.

Also! If you want to read Leroux's novel in French (even if you don't speak French, it can be fun to follow along with Leroux's text as you read the English translation), it is available for free on Project Gutenberg, or you can buy the Livre de Poche edition, which reproduces Leroux's 1910 first edition text.

Watched the 2004 Phantom of the Opera film for the first time ever, ask me anything

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Robur: Eine moderne Hommage an Jules Verne und H.G. Wells "Robur" ist ein Comic, geschrieben von Randy Lofficier und Jean-Marc Lofficier und illustriert von Gil Formosa. Diese Serie basiert lose auf der Figur Robur aus Jules Vernes Roman "Robur der Eroberer" und entführt ihn in neue, aufregende Abenteuer. Die Comic-Trilogie umfasst drei Bände: Band 1: "De la Lune à la Terre" (Von der Mond zur Erde) In diesem Band wird die Erde von den Seleniten, einer Mondrasse aus H.G. Wells' Romanen, erobert. Robur der Eroberer führt die menschliche Widerstandsbewegung gegen die Invasoren an. Dieser Band kombiniert Science-Fiction-Elemente mit einer alternativen Geschichtsschreibung, die Robur als zentralen Helden darstellt. Band 2: "20.000 Ans sous les Mers" (20.000 Jahre unter den Meeren) Der zweite Band vertieft die Geschichte, indem er die Leser in die Tiefen der Ozeane führt. Robur kämpft weiterhin gegen die Seleniten und nutzt dabei fortschrittliche Unterwassertechnologien. Dieser Band ist eine Hommage an Jules Vernes "20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer" und erweitert das Universum von Robur um maritime Abenteuer. Band 3: "Voyage au Centre de la Lune" (Reise zum Zentrum des Mondes) Im finalen Band der Trilogie führt Robur eine Expedition zum Mond, um das Herz der Invasion zu zerstören und die Erde zu befreien. Dieser Band verbindet Elemente aus H.G. Wells' und Jules Vernes Werken und liefert einen spannenden Abschluss der Serie. Illustrationen und visuelle Gestaltung Die Illustrationen von Gil Formosa sind detailreich und dynamisch, was die epischen Abenteuer von Robur zum Leben erweckt. Formosas Kunstwerk fängt die atmosphärische und abenteuerliche Stimmung der Serie perfekt ein und trägt maßgeblich zur Faszination der Geschichten bei. Veröffentlichung und Rezeption Die Serie wurde ursprünglich im französischen Verlag Albin Michel veröffentlicht und erschien später in englischer Sprache im Heavy Metal Magazin. Die "Robur"-Serie ist ein faszinierendes Beispiel für moderne Adaptionen klassischer Literaturfiguren und bietet eine Mischung aus Science-Fiction, Abenteuer und alternativer Geschichte, die Fans beider Genres begeistern wird. Fazit "Robur" von Randy Lofficier, Jean-Marc Lofficier und Gil Formosa ist eine beeindruckende Comic-Serie, die die klassischen Werke von Jules Verne und H.G. Wells aufgreift und in ein modernes, spannendes Format bringt. Mit detailreichen Illustrationen und einer packenden Handlung bietet diese Serie eine faszinierende Reise durch alternative Welten und epische Abenteuer.

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Marion Lubréac - " SYNDROME 47 -Les testaments du mal " Extrait : L’ACCIDENT.

Les éditions Rivière Blanche – La collection anticipation de Fleuve noir reviens. Considéré par certaines personnes comme la « mère » de toutes les collections de Science-Fiction Française, la collection Anticipation de Fleuve Noir revient au goût du jour sous les traits de Rivière Blanche. Extrait du site : « 1er septembre 2004 – Jean-Marc Lofficier […] vient d’annoncer le lancement d’un…

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Doom Patrol by Mike Collins

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Barbarella Holiday Special

writer: Jean-Marc Lofficier artist: José Louis Ruiz Pérez cover: José Louis Ruiz Pérez FC  |  48 pages  |  $5.99  |   Mature

Comics legend Jean-Marc Lofficier (Mobius, Doctor Strange) steps aboard the Barbarella Cosmic Express to tell an intergalactic tale of Christmas and…murder?! Hélas, c’est vrai! Someone’s been given the ultimate gift, and jolly old St. Nick must figure out by whom. Enter the space siren for all holidays, Barbarella! Guest-starring France’s Hexagon Comics’ super-patriot hero: The Guardian of the Republic.

Barbarella Holiday Special preview. Someone’s been given the ultimate gift, and jolly old St. Nick must figure out by whom. Enter the space siren for all holidays, Barbarella! #comics Barbarella Holiday Special writer: Jean-Marc Lofficier artist: José Louis Ruiz Pérez cover: José Louis Ruiz Pérez…

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Frank Frazetta-Fantasy Illustrated #7: Phantom of Which Opera

by Randy Lofficier; Jean-Marc Lofficie and Timothy II

Quantum Cat Entertainment

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Jean-Marc Lofficier on Blueberry in Marvel Age #96, January 1991

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Don't think I've heard of this but, I thought Doom had already freed his mother from Mephisto?

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Poto and Poto-Adjacent Books

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux. Shop

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, translated by Alexander de Mattos. Shop

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, translated by David Coward. Shop

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, translated by Mireille Ribière. Shop

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, translated by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. Shop

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, translated by Lowell Bair. Shop

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, translated by Leonard Wolf. Shop

The Phantom of the Opera: The Lost Chapter by Gaston Leroux, translated by Caitlin G Freeman. Shop

The Complete Phantom of the Opera by George Perry. Shop

First Year Backstage by Marcus Tylor

The Face Behind the Mask by John Flynn. Shop

Degas and the Dance by Jill Devonyar. Shop

Phantom by Susan Kay. Shop Review

Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth. Shop Review

Lessons From the Phantom of the Opera by Vicki Hopkins. Shop

Muppets Meet the Classics: The Phantom of the Opera by Erick Forrest Jackson. Shop Review

Phantom of the Opera - Official Graphic Novel by Cavan Scott. Shop Review

Phantom of the Opera: Pop-Up Book by Frank Van Der Meer. Shop

Phantom of the Opera by Philip J Riley. Shop Review

The Great Opera Stars in Historic Photographs: 343 Portraits from the 1850's to the 1940's by James Cammer. Shop

Phantom of the Opera: 25th Anniversary Edition by Michael Heatley. Shop

The Phantom of the Opera Companion by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Shop

Fancy Dresses Described or What to Wear at Fancy Balls by Ardern Holt. Shop

Gonoud’s Faust - Opera in Five Acts by Charles Gonoud. Shop

Phantom (Complete Script) by Arthur Kopit. Shop

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The Uncle and The Niece:

Strange Tales (1951) #139.

Writer - Stan Lee.

Artist - Steve Ditko.

Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #21.

Writer - Roy Thomas, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier.

Artist - Lee Weeks.

Strange (2004) #4.

Writer - J. Michael Straczynski.

Artist - Brandon Peterson.