"All Herge did was steal" Yesterday in Rotterdam, the first meeting of the Herge Society was held to honour the late belgian artist, Herge, creator of the immortal comics hero, Tintin. One of the topics discussed was the album Tintin in Tibet...

Tintin Errors What Tintin reader has not noticed a little detail, an error or a discreet allusion, thinking they were the only one who knew the "secret?" Let's have a look ...

Tintin on the Big Screen As soon as Tintin started to become popular, after the war, the idea of taking his adventures to the big screen came up. Unfortunately , the attempts made so far make us appreciate even more the albums... Although, we have to understand that these movies aren't really part of Herge's works, since he never contributed to them in any way. However that may be, they are still accounts of the specificity of Herge's creation.

Robert Sexe: the real life Tintin? Until recently, the world only knew one character who fits the following description: a young reporter with his trademark tweed jackets, plus-fours, blonde quiff, whose earliest adventures take him to the Soviet Union, the Belgian Congo and the United States, and that is Herge's Tintin...

D.I.Y Tintin garage door: Rob Winkels, master home -improvement guru shows you how in 10 easy steps In August 1998 I had the idea to decorate my garage door. The door needed painting afterall. I only had to find a good design. As a Tintin-lover it wasn't that difficult to find a good subject. I decided on The Red Sea Sharks...

Snowy, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore Yes, Tintin. That scrappy, intrepid, squeaky-clean reporter, international do-gooder, eternal boy in a world of men. With his brinny friend Captain Haddock and loyal dog snowy, Tintin has travelled the world, carried by pluck and principle (and invincible financial support) - but has never reflected on his life...

Chris Weaver's Climbing Pages - Tintin Over the years, I have had the pleasure of an acquaintance with the cartoons of the Belgian artist Herge. His main character, Tintin, has had a very rich life full of adventure across the globe. Since my childhood, I have travelled across the world and have spent several years climbing rock routes across the U.S. In my youth, Tintin's exploits in his role as investigative journalist enthralled me and may well have contributed to my decision to take part in some of these adventures in my own life...

Tintin's passage to China in jeopardy The process of bringing Tintin into China has been plagued by legal problems, largely caused by China's inability to crack down on piracy...

The adventures of Tintin When a Belgian Cartoonist first imagined Tintin and his dog snowy, and sent them off on an adventure to Communist Russia, a cult was born that has since spread across the world. Georges Prosper Remi or or Herge (for that was his pen name) spent the rest of his long life writing and drawing the adventures of Tintin, boy reporter, whose courage and ingenuity, good manners and fine sensibilities, were constantly challenged by strokes of great fortune and misfortune, as is often the case with heroes...

THE BLACK ISLAND When the new version of the Black Island appeared in August 1943, seven of the eight Tintin adventures available were still in their original version, in black and white (even though they had enlivened, in the meantime, by a few four-colour display pages). A few months before, these same albums had benefited from a brand new fully illustrated cover, which gave them a sharper polish. Indeed, a natural process was underway, one which would definitively transform Tintin into full colour...

The man who broke Herge's stereotypical style: an obituary Chang Chon-jen, who taught Herge about the realities of a china oppressed by foreign powers in the 1930's and became one of the most loved characters, has passes away...

Tintin is a right-hander... not! This article began initially with just the body of an old E-mail from Irene to Jesper with several random picked examples depicting Tintin's amazing dexterity (no pun intended) with both his hands. Recently the original article caught the attention of a left-hander, Klas Eriksson of Sweden who decided to take on the task of proving Tintin is really also a left-hander...

In defence of Herge I'm writing this little pensee in defence of Herge (the creator of Tintin) because he has been receiving a touch of bad press recently thanks to the interest in Jan Bucquoy's film The Sexual Life Of The Belgians...

Syldavian Explained The adventures of Tintin, by the great Belgian artist Herge, are enjoyed the world over, for the linguist, they offer the added attraction of providing tantalizing glimpses of a previously undocumented language, Syldavian...

The Clothes of Tintin Do we read the Tintin books in the correct order? Most Tintin freaks think that the correct order should be in the sequence Herge produced the books...

Ice on the Moon! Herge already mentioned it in passing on pages 36 and 37 of Explorers on the Moon. There is ice on the moon! With this long story which began on March 30, 1950, in Tintin magazine, Herge undertook and extraordinary bibliographic study enlisting specialists in the field...

Who's Endaddine Akass? We've read the adventures of Tintin time and time again. We lost track long ago of our reporter's brushes with arms dealers, drug traffickers, counterfeiters, hijackers, smugglers, highway robbers, and a horde of other villains...

A search for the Inspirational Sources of Herge Sometimes the comics reader's reaction is indignation, when he finds out, that pieces of art in a comic has been drawn from a photo, or that an idea has been taken from someone else. "Then the whole thing is a fake", he cries. The same reaction is provoked, if the artist shows how the same drawing of a ship has been used in different sizes in 3 or 4 pictures...

Marlinspike 421 "No, Madam, I am not Mr Cutts the butcher... No, Madam, this is not Marlinspike 431. This is 421, Madam." So speaks Nestor in the third frame of the first page of The Calculus Affair, and in fact the very first frame of the page shows us the famous telephone bearing the number 421 in the center of it's dial. Why do so many citizens of Marlinspike and it's surrounding area make the same mistake? ...

Herge Foundation: "The Secret of the Unicorn" Bernard Liger-Belair, age 92, today resides in Nivezee, near Spa, Belgium. In 1989, he told us of one of his most exquisite adventures...