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'Tintin et Moi'
Tintin is more than a comic about a boy reporter who travels the world to fight dictators, criminals, and bullies. It is also satire, anthropology, reportage (The Blue Lotus is an excellent primer on the Japanese invasion of Manchuria), and a pop-art fountainhead that influenced Lichtenstein and Warhol. Tintin et Moi, a 2003 documentary based on 14 hours of interviews with Tintin creator Hergé, discusses the artist's evolution from right-wing Catholic propagandist to secular humanist and defends Tintin as a definitive graphic record of the 20th century. (Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 267-5380. 7 and 9 pm, $8.50.)
BRENDAN KILEY
Tintin is on my list of things, (along with Dolly Parton, Carol Burnett and most of the Muppets), that if you don't like them, you cannot be a friend of mine and could, quite possibly, be a serial killer...
Tintin is great.
I really enjoyed seeing the Tintin anniversary exhibit in Paris when they had it a few years ago - and learned even more fascinating things about him back then.
Tintin was awesome. Being from a French-Canadian family and all, I always got boxes of hand-me-downs from all the attics in the family. Between that and the Hardy Boys/Doc Savage, I was pretty set as a kid as far as adventures in print go. Hmmm...maybe that stuff's worth money now that I think about it.
If you like TinTin, you should totally check out Portland comic artist Les McClaine, who writes a comic homage to it so wonderful many Herge fans consider it nearly equal to the original!
Google him or Jonny Crossbones for more info!
If you like TinTin, you should totally check out Portland comic artist Les McClaine, who writes a comic homage to it so wonderful many Herge fans consider it nearly equal to the original!
Google him or Jonny Crossbones for more info!
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