Tag Archives: Hergé

COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (3 July 2023)

Posted on July 3, 2023 by I.M. Baytor

July’s first weekly reminder that comics can be awesome… Explorers on the Moon

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Spotlight on Spirou & Fantasio, 1946-1957

Posted on March 30, 2023 by I.M. Baytor

Since I did a couple of posts about The Adventures of Tintin a while back, I guess it was a matter of time before I got around to writing about Spirou & Fantasio, the other major classic series of Belgian … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on The Adventures of Tintin – part 2

Posted on February 3, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

If you just look at the artwork in The Adventures of Tintin, it’s hard to deny the series’ ethnocentrism, since Hergé’s drawings – as was usual at the time – tap on recognizable stereotypes. If you look closely at the … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on The Adventures of Tintin – part 1

Posted on January 27, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

Something I would like to do more this year is to write about Eurocomics – especially the old Franco-Belgian bande dessinée albums that were such a huge part of my childhood. Today, let’s have a closer look at just a … Continue reading →

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (16 August 2021)

Posted on August 16, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

A simple reminder that (euro)comics can be awesome: Destination Moon

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On Richard Lester’s Musketeers

Posted on October 22, 2020 by I.M. Baytor

For a long time, when critics talked about ‘comic book movies,’ they used to just mean silly, exaggerated action films. In the past couple of decades, the term is more likely to refer to a movie that is a direct … Continue reading →

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