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Tag Archives: Tintin
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (3 July 2023)
July’s first weekly reminder that comics can be awesome… Explorers on the Moon
Spotlight on Spirou & Fantasio, 1946-1957
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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Tagged Franquin, Hergé, Jijé, Maurice Rosy, politics, Rob-Vel, Spirou, Tintin
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Spotlight on The Adventures of Tintin – part 2
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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Tagged Bob de Moor, Cold War, Hergé, movies, politics, science fiction, Tintin
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Spotlight on The Adventures of Tintin – part 1
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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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Hergé, politics, science fiction, Tintin, World War II
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (16 August 2021)
A simple reminder that (euro)comics can be awesome: Destination Moon
On Richard Lester’s Musketeers
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
Posted in WEBS OF FICTION
Tagged Hergé, Hermann, Hotspur, movies, The Towers of Bois-Maury, Three Musketeers, Tintin
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