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The original artwork for Tintin in America by Belgian artist Hergé sold at auction earlier today for $1.6 million from Paris auction house Artcurial, a world record for comic book art in a public sale Tintin in America was the third title in the series, published in 1932 and featuring a collection of comic strips which[...]

Getting an artistic reputation working with Jijé on Emmanuel, he then drew the Valhardi detective comic in seminal anthology comic Spirou from 1946 to 1954 with writers Jean-Michel Charlier and Yvan Delporte. He went on to create the series Marc Dacier with Charlier in 1958, and Luc Orient in 1966 with Greg, which was published in[...]

The artwork for the front cover of Tintin In America, from the nineteen thirties, will go on sale in Paris next month, with a price expected to fetch around a million dollars. Feel free to pose with your little finger crooked to the edge of the mouth. And we're back in the room Drawn by Hergé was[...]

Massive french publisher Gallimard are in the process of buying French group Falmmarion, which currently belongs to an Italian company. Now, Flammarion also owns Casterman, publisher of Tintin, Corto Maltese, Fluide Glacial and other minor comic labels. Gallimard also has its own labels, like Denoel Graphic and are co-owners of Futuropolis with Soleil. Al this machinations will return[...]

Courtesy of French site MooLooZone, What If... Herge Created The X-Men?

FoxWatch: In the light of the new Tintin movie, Fox News runs a delightful tourist guide to Brussels and Belgium, including the country's rich comic book history Some of the website commenters are less sure. The only good thing to come out of Belgium was George Patton, leaving behind thousands of dead Nazis Otherwise, the world[...]

TintinInIndiaWatch: How does Tintin sell in India? "So what is Tintin's enduring appeal for us? Book-store managers say the perennial demand for Tintin comics in India never dips In 2010, 35 years after the first Indian translation of Tintin in Bengali appeared in the children's magazine Anandamela, it was translated into Hindi by film-maker and writer[...]

The complete Tintin collection as an Apple iPad App for $4.99/£2.99. And that's exactly what it was. How it got approved by Apple isn't known Those who have bought the App now say that it is broken, its method was to let you download the pirated pages stored on an external server, which seems to have come[...]

What if Tintin Was Grim'N;Gritty? Welcome to Tintin – Five Years Later. Patrick Willems decided the logical thing to do with his film degree was to make silly videos for YouTube about movies and comics and anything else he felt like making videos about He co-runs Lumberjack Films, a New York-based[...]

In an exhibition sponsored by Toronto's premier comics store The Beguiling, Chester Brown and other Canadian artists including Michael DeForge, Joe Ollmann, Zach Worton, and Faith Erin Hicks have drawn their versions of the popular Belgian comics character for Toronto Draws Tintin The opening party is tonight from 7-11 at the Steamwhistle Gallery The pieces[...]

TintinWatch: Brussels gets a walking tour of Tintin. Indeed, all around us were places relating to Hergé's and other Belgian cartoonists' lives and comic creations Didier showed us the textile factory that Hergé's father managed and where he met the artist's seamstress mother It's now the city's archives building. HalloWatch: Kim Kardashian as[...]

Not on all the press certainly, but on this UK poster for Tintin in particular, the name of the writers is the same size as that as the director And the cast And the film's subtitle Indeed, the only thing bigger than the writers' names is the main title of the film – and that[...]

I do love a good comic book parody. Yesterday I was asked by a comic book publisher to write an upcoming parody comic book and it got me thinking as to my favourite comic parodies.I've had a go at a few myself, principally X-Flies, Civil Wardrobe and Watchmensch, but I don't think I'll ever be able[...]

Better give him something to look at, like this Tintin trailer with new scenes, now in English. Bleeding Cool's Brendon is off to hospital because they think he might have actually broken his left arm Better give him something to look at, like this Tintin trailer with new scenes, now in English. Bleeding Cool's Brendon[...]

A Belgian couple are suspected of stealing two original first prints of Tintin graphic novels The man, a white male aged around fifty was seen in the Royal Museum Of Mariemont in Belgium He forced a window, broke in, and took a volume of Tintin au Congo from a glass case and concealed it in[...]

US and UK orders… MovieWatch: Spielberg's new Tintin movie, written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, opens in India six weeks before the USA… TVWatch: Doctor Who tonight That is all. This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking I come for your women But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online[...]

A graphic novel telling the story of Georges Prosper Remi, better known as Tintin creator, Hergé, and his homosexual affair with a young man, Tchang, the model for characters in his books, and an alleged communist Chinese spy, is having trouble finding a publisher. I wonder why In France or Belgium this may be considered something[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyi-Pd05BQ One for the purists amongst you, I think...

All sorts of people enjoy Bleeding Cool! And a special hello to all the Disney people working in Chicago! You love us, you really love us! BrooklynWatch: Lynda Barry, about to have her work collected in Complete volumes by Drawn & Quarterly will be at the Brooklyn Comics And Graphic Novel Festival this weekend, as well[...]

If only they'd actually done that back then. CBR runs interviews with X-Force's Craig Kyle and Chris Yost, Nikke Finke reports on Peter Jackson/Steven Spielberg/Steven Moffat's Tintin getting a European release months before the US (in payback for Up possibly!) And everyone and their grandmother is showing off that Mickey Rourke shot as Whiplash[...]