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6 unusual facts about The Adventures of Tintin


Cornelius the First

During the Canadian federal election of 1984 The party made a major part of their platform declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the early works of the comics series.

De Bereboot

Apart from their own adventures they also aired Dutch-dubbed cartoons (from Hanna-Barbera, The Adventures of Tintin, and their Scandinavian peer Rasmus Klump).

Genève-Cornavin railway station

The station entrance and a platform was seen in The Adventures of Tintin comic The Calculus Affair.

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.

The Adventures of Tintin: Breaking Free

The anger felt by the working-class people of this town boils over when a construction worker, Joe Hill (apparently named after the anarcho-syndicalist labour organiser of the same name) falls to his death due to poor safety standards at the local building site.

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.


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.

2101 Adonis

In 1954, in The Adventures of Tintin comic Explorers on the Moon, a drunken Captain Haddock almost becomes a satellite of the asteroid, improbably depicted passing between the Earth and the Moon.

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.

Carlsen Verlag

The publisher's program focuses on books for children, i.e. Harry Potter, Rugrats', and The Adventures of Tintin.

Castlebay

In the 2010 Channel 4 programme Dom Joly and the Black Island, Joly and Tintinologist Michael Farr identify Castlebay and Kisimul as the locations of Kiltoch and the Ben More Castle used as settings in The Adventures of Tintin comic The Black Island, although the scenes of reaching it by boat and exploring it on foot were filmed at Lochranza Castle on the Isle of Arran.

Christophe Héral

He has composed music for video games such as Beyond Good & Evil, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Rayman Origins, Rayman Legends and Beyond Good & Evil 2, which is currently unreleased.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Megabalanus

Surprisingly, the specific name tintinnabulum does not refer to The Adventures of Tintin character Captain Haddock, whose catchphrase was "Blistering barnacles"; it was designated by 18th century taxonomist Linnaeus and refers to the animal's shape — a tintinnabulum is a handbell .

Michael Farr

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

Randy Spendlove

Some of his credits include Hugo and The Adventures of Tintin, which both received Oscar nominations for Best Original Score, and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, which brought in $73 million at the US box office.

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.

Stupa

In The Adventures of Tintin album Tintin in Tibet, Captain Haddock is told that one should always walk left of a chorten when crossing one, because walking right unleashes demons.

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 videos and DVDs

A limited edition of Ellipse-Nelvana's The Adventures of Tintin TV cartoon series was released as its HMV exclusive in Europe by Anchor Bay Entertainment.

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.


see also

Tournesol

Professor Calculus (French: Professeur Tryphon Tournesol), a fictional character of The Adventures of Tintin

Wagg

Jolyon Wagg, character in the comics series The Adventures of Tintin