$290.00
Quality French poster of Tin Tin on a scooter in Paris. This colourfull print will brighten any room!
Professionally framed, the overall size is 550 mm x 420 mm.
The Adventures of Tintin is a series of 24 graphic novels created by Georges Remi, known as Herge. Born in 1907 his creation has sold over 280 million books in over 70 countries. Tintin was created in 1929.
Tintin was first published in the youth supplement of the Belgium newspaper ‘The 20th Century’. The paper had largely pro fascist anti-semetic views, which influenced the early location of some of Tin Tins stories, spreading anti socialist adventures in Russia (rather than the USA which Herge had hoped to do at first). Serialised strips in ‘The Evening’ led to Tintin magazine and then into the albums we know and love today.
The countries Tintin was set were well researched by Herge and seem to come to life, albeit some books were changed when published in their native countries. The first Russian strip was collected into book form and based on an increase in sales a second, set in the Congo, was released. Largely uncontroversial at the time it is now considered rascist in tone. The books were debated in the French parliament in 1999 which led to an article in the Economist. The third book, finally set in America, is anti capitalist. Despite the undertones of this Tintin travelled and sold across the world, including the United Kingdom and Scotland.
Tintin was influenced by events around him and went from young reporter to explorer so Herge would avoid arrest from the Gestapo during World War Two. The German owners fled the country in 1944 and Tintin ended publication in the then closed ‘Evening’ newspaper. It was two years later, in 1946, when the character was resurrected in preparation for his own magazine in 1950.