The Holly and the Hergé

Tintin and Snowy send their Christmas greetings in this original greeting card art by Hergé. The drawing in india ink of Tintin and his dog is very appealing, although perhaps to American sensibilities at least the estimate from Sotheby's Paris back in 2012 seems very high.

Hergé, Tintin and Snowy holding a holly branch, original greeting card artwork

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/bande-dessine-comics/lot.14.html#

Note:  Tintin appeared once before on this blog here.

Christmas posts have been seen here as well, and considerably more than once.

The winter solstice has come! Enjoy blog posts of the season here.

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May Day for Tintin

The first collected Adventures of Tintin book, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets from 1929 is scarce and it remained out of print for many years. The phenomenal price achieved for this volume at auction is a testament to the importance of Tintin, particularly in the French and Belgian markets. (I'm an American and my first and only encounter with Tintin was the Spielberg movie. I liked it, by the way.)

The book may be anticommunist propaganda and no doubt is historically inaccurate, but, hey, it's a comic book. While I haven't read it, it's flaws seem trivial, especially given the ubiquitous falsehoods of Soviet propaganda and the Communist Party's systematic denial of the awful realities of life under the brutal Joseph Stalin. And this book did get the whole Tintin thing started, after all.

Oh, yeah. Happy May Day, Comrades.


Hergé, Les Aventures de Tintin au pays des Soviets, No. 477/500, 1929

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/bande-dessine-comics/lot.12.lotnum.html

Hergé, Les Aventures de Tintin au pays des Soviets, No. 477/500, 1929

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