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You arrived from the future in a time-bubble, and demanded that some dudes gave you their clothes, boots and a motorcycle, didn't you...?
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You arrived from the future in a time-bubble, and demanded that some dudes gave you their clothes, boots and a motorcycle, didn't you...?
@harryshearer.bsky.social I know that correlation isn't causation, but it surely *must* be the recent release of "Tap 2", and the increased (ahem) prominence of Derek Smalls, that's led to shortages in the Sainsbury's veg aisle today...??
September 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
@harryshearer.bsky.social I know that correlation isn't causation, but it surely *must* be the recent release of "Tap 2", and the increased (ahem) prominence of Derek Smalls, that's led to shortages in the Sainsbury's veg aisle today...??
Looks lovely, but have you thought about possible confusion with Julia Donaldson & Sarah Ogilvie’s recent book about a bear and a gosling named Gozzle…?
September 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Looks lovely, but have you thought about possible confusion with Julia Donaldson & Sarah Ogilvie’s recent book about a bear and a gosling named Gozzle…?
…then a moment later is startled by a noise behind him - crack! - turns, and is laid low by Müller, who having actually spotted Tintin hiding earlier, has circled around, and taken a stick which he uses to knock Tintin out. Calamity!! 3/7
May 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
…then a moment later is startled by a noise behind him - crack! - turns, and is laid low by Müller, who having actually spotted Tintin hiding earlier, has circled around, and taken a stick which he uses to knock Tintin out. Calamity!! 3/7
Who knew? Never mind "The Blue Lotus" - Tintin has opened a Chinese restaurant opposite the bus station in Portsmouth...!
April 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Who knew? Never mind "The Blue Lotus" - Tintin has opened a Chinese restaurant opposite the bus station in Portsmouth...!
Happy Easter, everyone! An early “Petit Vingtième” Paschal cover by Hergé.
April 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Happy Easter, everyone! An early “Petit Vingtième” Paschal cover by Hergé.
Today marks 96 years since Tintin and Snowy departed Brussels to investigate what was happening in Russia, at the start of “Tintin in the Land of the Soviets”.
Their first public appearance was the week before, when this image was published to advertise the start of the story.
Their first public appearance was the week before, when this image was published to advertise the start of the story.
January 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Today marks 96 years since Tintin and Snowy departed Brussels to investigate what was happening in Russia, at the start of “Tintin in the Land of the Soviets”.
Their first public appearance was the week before, when this image was published to advertise the start of the story.
Their first public appearance was the week before, when this image was published to advertise the start of the story.
The thing that sounds like an anvil, is an anvil - they do them for music work, in a variety of pitches, and they get used in things like "The Anvil Chorus", and Horner soundtracks. Wouldn't like to be a gigging anvil player... Or their roadie...
December 30, 2024 at 10:50 AM
The thing that sounds like an anvil, is an anvil - they do them for music work, in a variety of pitches, and they get used in things like "The Anvil Chorus", and Horner soundtracks. Wouldn't like to be a gigging anvil player... Or their roadie...
Tintin got there in a play staged in 1941...
December 25, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Tintin got there in a play staged in 1941...
Annual Public Service Announcement: Nothing says that Beethoven's Birthday has passed for another year than the sad sight of a baby Baby Grand abandoned at the kerbside. C'mon, people! A toy piano is for life, not just for the holiday!! Schroeder would be*so* disappointed...!! :-(
December 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Annual Public Service Announcement: Nothing says that Beethoven's Birthday has passed for another year than the sad sight of a baby Baby Grand abandoned at the kerbside. C'mon, people! A toy piano is for life, not just for the holiday!! Schroeder would be*so* disappointed...!! :-(
…or to Hergé’s familiarity with the early film-musical “Captaine Craddock”, a song from which – “Les gars de la Marine” – Haddock is shown singing in the French version of “Crab with the Golden Claws”. 3/3
December 18, 2024 at 1:08 PM
…or to Hergé’s familiarity with the early film-musical “Captaine Craddock”, a song from which – “Les gars de la Marine” – Haddock is shown singing in the French version of “Crab with the Golden Claws”. 3/3
…will be no longer in copyright, but characters like the Thom(p)sons, Haddock and Calculus still will be, as are Tintin’s blue jersey and brown plus fours. There’s a suggestion that his reddish hair will also be in copyright, but as his first official colour episodes (from Christmas 1929)…
December 16, 2024 at 6:15 PM
…will be no longer in copyright, but characters like the Thom(p)sons, Haddock and Calculus still will be, as are Tintin’s blue jersey and brown plus fours. There’s a suggestion that his reddish hair will also be in copyright, but as his first official colour episodes (from Christmas 1929)…
I like the fact that, having read a biography of Beethoven, Schulz found the phrase “Lobkowitz stopped his annuity” really funny, and was even more delighted that he managed to work it into a strip.
December 16, 2024 at 11:59 AM
I like the fact that, having read a biography of Beethoven, Schulz found the phrase “Lobkowitz stopped his annuity” really funny, and was even more delighted that he managed to work it into a strip.
Or a-peel-ing... :-)
December 3, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Or a-peel-ing... :-)
Happy St. Andrew’s Day! To celebrate the patron saint of Scotland, here’s a sketch of Tintin in a kilt, doing a *terrible* job of playing a set of bagpipes…! It’s been signed by Tintin, Hergé and Milou/ Snowy (secretly, Milou had Hergé’s first wife Germaine sign autographs for him, left handed…).
November 30, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Happy St. Andrew’s Day! To celebrate the patron saint of Scotland, here’s a sketch of Tintin in a kilt, doing a *terrible* job of playing a set of bagpipes…! It’s been signed by Tintin, Hergé and Milou/ Snowy (secretly, Milou had Hergé’s first wife Germaine sign autographs for him, left handed…).
The text around the figures says “Tintin et Milou”, their original French names, and “Kuifje en Bobbie”, as they are known in Flemish and Dutch. However, although the other names given are in English, they are rendered as “Tufty and Bobby”, which translates the Dutch, rather than French names.
November 29, 2024 at 3:24 PM
The text around the figures says “Tintin et Milou”, their original French names, and “Kuifje en Bobbie”, as they are known in Flemish and Dutch. However, although the other names given are in English, they are rendered as “Tufty and Bobby”, which translates the Dutch, rather than French names.
…and to more dedicated Tintinologists looking to pin down that last somewhat elusive face! 14a/14
November 28, 2024 at 3:04 PM
…and to more dedicated Tintinologists looking to pin down that last somewhat elusive face! 14a/14
I’ve put together a guide, with a key, to all the pictures which appear in the gallery, which I hope will be of interest to both casual fans - who might have wondered from time to time about the pictures…14/14
November 28, 2024 at 3:03 PM
I’ve put together a guide, with a key, to all the pictures which appear in the gallery, which I hope will be of interest to both casual fans - who might have wondered from time to time about the pictures…14/14
Another little observation: this 1958 portrait of Tintin in “The Black Island” is much closer in style to that of the yet to be thought of 1965 revised version, than the original book on which it is based – almost a premonition! 13/14
November 28, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Another little observation: this 1958 portrait of Tintin in “The Black Island” is much closer in style to that of the yet to be thought of 1965 revised version, than the original book on which it is based – almost a premonition! 13/14
Following a decision to revise the book, and to make the setting entirely fictional, his rôle was taken by the Khemedian Army officer who interviews the Detectives in Khemikhal on p.17, in the version of “The Land of Black Gold” translated into English in 1972. 11/14
November 28, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Following a decision to revise the book, and to make the setting entirely fictional, his rôle was taken by the Khemedian Army officer who interviews the Detectives in Khemikhal on p.17, in the version of “The Land of Black Gold” translated into English in 1972. 11/14
One thing that makes his unfamiliarity to an English-speaking audience quite so unusual is that the character is a British Army officer. Commandant Thorpe featured in an earlier version “The Land of Black Gold”, when the story was set in Palestine under the British Mandate. 10/14
November 28, 2024 at 2:55 PM
One thing that makes his unfamiliarity to an English-speaking audience quite so unusual is that the character is a British Army officer. Commandant Thorpe featured in an earlier version “The Land of Black Gold”, when the story was set in Palestine under the British Mandate. 10/14
This can be identified as being for “Tintin in the Far North”, a tale which, although proposed, never came to be written. However, as far as identifying this portrait, there’s no need to look into the realms of possibility, when a definite answer as to who this Mystery Man is, is available. 9/14
November 28, 2024 at 2:54 PM
This can be identified as being for “Tintin in the Far North”, a tale which, although proposed, never came to be written. However, as far as identifying this portrait, there’s no need to look into the realms of possibility, when a definite answer as to who this Mystery Man is, is available. 9/14
One face remained anonymous. One portrait seemed to be of a nameless person, from an unknown book! Could it be a figure from one of Hergé’s unrealised projects?
After all, the previous endpapers included a little image of Tintin in a furry parka, with Snowy, in arctic conditions. 8/14
After all, the previous endpapers included a little image of Tintin in a furry parka, with Snowy, in arctic conditions. 8/14
November 28, 2024 at 2:53 PM
One face remained anonymous. One portrait seemed to be of a nameless person, from an unknown book! Could it be a figure from one of Hergé’s unrealised projects?
After all, the previous endpapers included a little image of Tintin in a furry parka, with Snowy, in arctic conditions. 8/14
After all, the previous endpapers included a little image of Tintin in a furry parka, with Snowy, in arctic conditions. 8/14
…and would return to it again in 1949, where the characters dance around a Christmas tree. 5/14
November 28, 2024 at 2:50 PM
…and would return to it again in 1949, where the characters dance around a Christmas tree. 5/14