Do any of you like the Tintin series? I've got all 24 books, I've been a fan for years. Matthew Parris had an article earlier this year claiming Tintin was obviously. Oddly, it hadn't occurred to me before, but when I read the piece, it made sense to me. It would have seemed stranger to me had someone made the case that he's straight.
Tintin ??? I loooooooove Tintin ! Tintin is the best part of my childhood. I was very proud that my father looked a lot like Captain Hadock.
What was the first one you read? Mine were Tintin in America, Broken Ear and Picaros, they were in my grandmother's house, then my other grandmother sent me Cigars of the Pharaoh and America for a birthday once, and I just built up my collection.
no. tintin is so annoying. it's a boy and his dog who get upto adventures. ripping off the famous five more like.
My first one was The Crab with the Golden Claws, my great aunt offered it to me when I was 5 years old, during the summer at my grand-parents house. But the virus took me when I was 6. The very day of my 6th birthday, I had appendicitis. I spend 8 days at the hospital and everyday, my dad bought me and read me one of the Tintin's adventures (I know, I was a spoiled little girl ) Then, my parents and grand-parents bought me the rest of the books for my birthdays or for Christmas during years.
That's weird. MY first Tintin was Crab With the Golden Claws, too. I think I got it when I was six. I ended up reading the books until they literally fell apart. They were held together with scotch tape. Not long ago, I got the two "rare" Tintin books - Tintin in the Land of Bolsheviks, and Tintin in the Congo. Although there's some classic Tintin stuff in there, they're obviously formative works, and aren't anywhere near as good as the later works. (They're also quite...well, let's be nice and say "ethnocentric".) I also picked up the patched-together "Tintin and Alph-Art", the unfinished final episode. Basically told with pencil sketches and subtitles, it ends in the middle of a cliffhanger - the bad guy is about to cover Tintin in concrete, making him a living statue! How will he escape? Somehow it's fitting that it ends right there. I also picked up the "Tintin Companion", which points out a lot of the stuff in the backgrounds and backstories of all the Tintin adventures. A great read. >>>it's a boy and his dog who get upto adventures. ripping off the famous five more like. First Famous Five adventure published: 1942. First Tintin adventure published (in serial form): 1929. Lex
I used to have the biggest crush on Tintin back when I had a Belgian teacher and she gave us Tintin stuff to read. Now that he's gay I might have a chance :O
dp - need i say more? I was a fan of the TV show then the "books" or i'd call them cartoons or "graphic novels" My friend actualy got me a coppy of my favorite story tin tin destination moon in french...
*sigh* I loved Tintin.. <3 Thank you for reminding me of this part of my childhood. My day is now going to be perfect.
Never really a fan of the cartoon but they are making a movie about it. Apparently Steven Spielberg (E.T, Jaws, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones) and Peter Jackson (King kong, lord of the rings) are involved. So you fans should be satisfied:icon_wink
I am looking forward to the film, particularly because they're using motion capture. Once when I was reading Tintin, specifically Prisoners of the Sun, I thought that it should be done something like that, with actors playing the roles physically, but done in animation, because there it can be physical enough at times, but no actors could really get the look right. And it was long before The Lord of the Rings and Gollum that I thought of that.
First one I read was "le Lotus Bleu" (the blue lotus). I didn't even understand half of the background at the time (I was 4 or 5 at the time), but it was still an exciting story. Though I do feel that I got more out of Tintin once I actually learned more about history. I very much doubt Tintin was intended to be gay. If anything he might have been asexual. Though there might be some homourous fun in rereading the books with the assumption that he is... Tintin was never my favourite strip, though. That honour goes to the Flemish series "Jommeke". Which has never been translated into any other language, I think. I love those two! They're really good at showing the general way of thinking at the time. Especially "Bolsheviks", when the big reveal has the Bolsheviks say, more or less, "Yes, Tintin, we are all evil bastards, mwuhahahahaha!". Of course the story appeared in a self-proclamied "anti-socialist weekly"...
