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i love tintin. i grew up reading his adventures. i think because of tintin, i was more aware of a culture different than mine. i think there's going to be a trilogy of tintin movies in the works, with steven spielberg heading it.

Tintin is amazing. I have a great biography of Herge, that outlines how he created the comics.

Herge would meticulously cut out pieces of magazines or photos or newspapers that he found interested, and organize them in his filing cabinets. He probably had a file labeled "Cars", for example, or one for "India". When he drew the pages, Herge would locate any relevant research from his accumulated snippets. If you compare his frames with the original magazine pieces, it's uncanny just how much of his comics are based on politics and culture. Sometimes, he'll create characters after real political figures, changing only the name. (And sometimes, he won't even do that.. Al Capone, for example.)

My dad used to visit Brussels pretty often for work, and they he's a national icon over there. RIP, man.

I grew up on reading Tintin as a kid. Naturally I read it for the humour, but it wasn't until later than I realized a lot of his works were modelled after real world events.

I actually learnt more than I thought I did. Or rather piqued my interest in a lot of things (particularly from Explorers on the Moon or The Blue Lotus).