#not herge

[surfingkaliyuga]

“Joyeux Noel” Yves Rodier 2021

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

I decided to redraw one of my earliest Tintin fancomics! I've been drawing Tintin fanart for a bit before I started posting online.

I can imagine Tintin having a tumultuous relationship with his editor, hardly ever being in the office and having a very low rate of writing articles. Tintin's increasingly liberal politics also clash with the newspaper's conservative values. Tintin and his editor frequently argue over this but Tintin almost always wins out, as he is aware that it is his articles that sell the paper. His editor is reluctant to let go of his golden goose.

More headcanon under the Read More! It's background stuff and things about his editor.

Tintin started his journalism career at just 14, and seeing the dangerous situations he is sent into in his early stories suggests to me that whoever hired him didn't have his best interests at heart. I can imagine his editor taking advantage of Tintin's ambition and naivety, while styling himself as a sort of father figure to the newspaper he runs. I based him off of the editor we see at the very start of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets!

His editor hires him after Tintin demonstrates remarkable skills in investigative journalism, uncovering local corruption for his school paper. He takes advantage of Tintin's naivety, sending him off to various countries to write conservative propaganda pieces for the paper. He hopes Tintin will be easy to groom into a conservative pundit, but after witnessing atrocities and coming into contact with people from different walks of life, Tintin finds himself unlearning a lot of harmful beliefs he was raised with. After he earns global recognition in Tintin in America, Tintin leverages his star power to ensure less editorial interference with his work. His journey away from conservatism is kickstarted upon befriending Chang, who directly challenges a lot of his preconceptions.

Tintin stays with the paper under the misguided belief that he can steer the publication in a better direction with his influence. Deep down he also feels he owes his editor, as it was him who gave Tintin a platform and an oppurtunity to escape his situation, being raised in an orphanage and being deeply unhappy in school. His editor also frequently points out that other papers will not be as lenient with his low turnover rate of articles, and that he's lucky he's still with them.

After Tintin gets Chang a job there as his photographer, Chang ends up befriending a lot of the staff. He's one of the few non white staff members there, which causes quite the stir. While Chang is grateful for the job, he becomes increasingly uncomfortable with working for them the more he learns about the paper. He tells Tintin that by staying there, he's only legitimising the publication.

Tensions at the paper start rising as political tension rises in Europe. Tintin, Chang, and a lot of staff notice their editor acting erratically and making strange demands...

[ryanmoody]

Tintin Crossover Fan Art 3 by @adammurphyart

[mayhasopinions]

when the tin changs <33

inspired by @professorcalculusstanaccount's lovely art!!

[26labrd]

syldavia travel brochure from king ottokar's sceptre

[shrimptin]

[mannka]

and now sketches with the captain

[notanartist143]

Hergé study with J&W

(but make it horny bc I found this insane photograph on pinterest)

[aagatinha]

Tintin save me too, but from this cruel world 😭

[enchantedbook]

'The Blue Lotus' by Herge, 1936

[surfingkaliyuga]

“Tintin Homage To Hergé” Kim Jung Gi 2015

[loniirstar]

Bruuuuuhgghhj ain't no way drawing Tintin in November during June saved me from art block for a while.................. Smh......................

In all seriousness though, I'm actually really proud of this one. Like, really proud. Probably because it's my first full artwork after a good while. Sure, there are some mistakes here and there, but I still think I did a quite decent job here.

Sorry for not posting so much rock related art lately, I just don't like the way they turn out and I'm really burnt out. I'll promise I'll try to do something later. But for now, this is all I've got to offer.

Also, here's the reference:

Goes so hard, I just couldn't resist redrawing it when I first found it on Pinterest, lol.

[ryanmoody]

Tintin Meets the Universal Monsters Crossover Fan Art 4 by @adammurphyart

[pedroam-bang]

The Adventures Of Tintin (2011)

[scrambler]

Adam Murphy

[shrimptin]

@reallyreallyreallytrying