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4 unusual facts about Hergé's Adventures of Tintin


Hergé's Adventures of Tintin

Larry Harmon - Tintin, Professor Calculus (Objective Moon and The Crab With the Golden Claws)

In Black Island, Captain Haddock plays a leading part, whereas he wasn't in the original book.

The group are captured by natives, but escape when a volcanic eruption sinks the Island (similar to Flight 714).

And there are natives on the desert island, who bear a strong resemblance to the Arumbayas from The Broken Ear.


1920s in comics

January 10: first publication of The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé, in the children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième in the newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, with the story Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter du Petit "Vingtième", au pays des Soviets.

Achdé

The pseudonym is based on the French pronunciation of his initials, "H.D." (similar to Hergé and Jijé).

Aino Ackté

Ackté is most likely the original model for the opera diva character Bianca Castafiore in comics books of "Adventures of Tintin" by Belgian Hergé.

Benoît Peeters

He has written a number of books about the comics medium as well, including Le monde d'Hergé (1983), published in English as Tintin and the World of Hergé (1988), a biography of Hergé, "Hergé, son of Tintin", a study of comics pioneer Rodolphe Töpffer, and theoretical works such as Lire la bande dessinée (1998)

Chang Chong-Chen

Hergé agreed and Gosset introduced him to Zhang Chongren, a student at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

Egyptian cigarette industry

Egyptian cigarette advertisements are parodied in Hergé's graphic novel Cigars of the Pharaoh.

Faisal II of Iraq

King Faisal was the model used by Belgian comic writer Hergé for his character Prince Abdullah of Khemed in The Adventures of Tintin.

Faux Soir

The most famous author to publish in Le Soir during this time was doubtless Hergé with The Adventures of Tintin comic The Shooting Star (L'étoile mystérieuse), featuring his famous character Tintin.

Germaine Kieckens

Germaine Kieckens (1906 – October 26, 1995) was a Belgian secretary, the first wife of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, to whom she was married from 1932 to 1977.

Gianfranco Goria

Goria is also a teacher of Graphic Literature and lecturer, specialized in the works of Hergé (The Adventures of Tintin etc.) and Edgar Pierre Jacobs (Blake and Mortimer).

Henri Gillain

Although committed to his career as a math teacher, Henri Gillain followed with interest the early developments of comic strips in Belgium, and the artistic evolution of his brother, Jijé, eventually considered by many the second pioneer of Belgian comics after Hergé.

Hergé Foundation

It runs Hergé's estate, the official Tintin website, and the new Hergé museum.

Index Translationum

Authors with similar names are sometimes included as one entry, for example, the ranking for "Hergé" applies not only to the author of The Adventures of Tintin (Hergé), but also to B.R. Hergehahn, Elisabeth Herget, and Douglas Hergert.

Jauja

In a related vein, Jauja is the setting for an episode of "Prisoners of the Sun", one of the books in the comics series on the Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian artist Hergé.

Kemayoran Airport

Kemayoran Airport is the setting for the beginning of The Adventures of Tintin comic, Flight 714, by Hergé.

Le Thermozéro

After a few sketches were made this project fell through as well, as Hergé asked Bob de Moor to modernize The Black Island instead.

Leslie Earl Simon

The book has become a collector's item in Europe since Hergé featured it in the storyline of The Adventures of Tintin comic The Calculus Affair, published in 1956, where it appears on page 23.

Louis Van Lint

Michael Farr, The Adventures of Herge, creator of Tintin, Last Gasp, San Francisco, 2007, 127 p.

In the 1960s, he introduced Hergé to abstract painting and provided him with private lessons for one year.

Louvain-la-Neuve

After his death in 1983, Hergé's widow, Fanny, led the efforts, undertaken at first by the Hergé Foundation and then by the new Studios Hergé, to catalogue and choose the artwork and elements that would eventually become part of the Museum's exhibitions.

Michael Farr

Michael Farr is a British expert on the comic series The Adventures of Tintin and its creator, Hergé.

Minor comics by Hergé

Looking at the brief episodes it is easy to tell that Mr. Mops is based on none other than the silent movie star Charlie Chaplin, of whom Hergé was a great admirer.

Qibao

The town was also once the residence of the famous painter Zhang Chongren, a friend of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, on whom the character Chang Chong-Chen from "The Adventures of Tintin" was based.

Roger Leloup

Leloup worked for both Jacques Martin, with Alix and Lefranc, and for Hergé, but as the production at the Studios Hergé slowed down, and Leloup came into contact with other artists.

Stockel metro station

Murals on the walls across each of the tracks from the single island platform illustrate more than 140 characters from Hergé's comic The Adventures of Tintin.

The Conquest of Space

Bonestell's illustrations of the Moon in The Conquest of Space were also used as a basis for Hergé when he illustrated the lunar surface in The Adventures of Tintin comic, Explorers on the Moon.

The Mystery of the Blue Diamond

Tintin in India: The Mystery of the Blue Diamond, is a 1941 Belgian theatre piece in three acts written by Hergé and Jacques Van Melkebeke.

Tina Kover

She has been selected to translate Benoit Peeters' biography of Hergé for publication by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2011.

Tintin and the Blue Oranges

It was the second live-action movie, with an original story based on characters from the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin, written and drawn by the Belgian artist Hergé.

Tintin postage stamps

The stamp would be featured on the front cover of Harry Thompson's book, Tintin, Hergé and his Creation.

Tintin's Travel Diaries

These books were inspired by characters from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé, and were based on notebooks that Tintin may have kept as he traveled on to his adventures.


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