Keep Up with Tintin News, Books, and Films

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, two Hollywood legends, are tackling the adventures of legendary Belgian comic book character Tintin, in three very high budget and high tech movies. The first, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, directed by Spielberg, will be released in 2011. Peter Jackson will direct the second, and the director of the third has not yet been announced.

Tintin's adventures began eighty years ago, when he first appeared in a conservative Roman Catholic newspaper in Belgium. Tintin was created by Georges Remi, under the penname Hergé (as his initials, reversed, are pronounced in French). Through twenty-four books (albums, as they are usually called), Tintin rambles around the globe and through the twentieth century with his canine sidekick Snowy (Milou, in the original French), joined by a variety of characters (from an operatic soprano to an abominable snowman) and legions of readers in some seventy languages.

I will be revising this reference article on almost all things Tintin with news about the films and links to information on the books and the films, including my own articles. So, bookmark this article on Tintin, and check back for the latest news on the timeless boy reporter.

There are some things about Tintin that I will not include here. I will limit references for Tintin to information in English, but with Tintin's popularity in English-speaking countries other than the United States, there will still be much information. I will not include any images of Tintin and his pals, since they are still under copyright, but I will refer you to websites where you can see them. Also, Tintin is wildly popular on peer-to-peer filesharing networks, but I will not include references to those.

Tintin in my articles

"Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Bring Tintin Adventures to the Big Screen" - Read it.
"Parents, Children: Watch Tintin Films Online for Free" - Read it.
"Why is Tintin's First Adventure so Controversial [Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]?" - Read it.
"Why Are There Calls for Tintin's Congo Adventure to Be Banned [Tintin in the Congo]?" - Read it.
"Gangsters, Cops, Cowboys, Indians, Tycoons Welcome Tintin to America [Tintin in America]" - Read it.
"Tintin Meets Thomson, Thompson, and Captain Haddock" - Read it.
"Tintin's War on Drugs [Cigars of the Pharaoh & The Crab with the Golden Claws] - Read it.
"Tintin in the News" - Read it.

The twenty-four Tintin adventures

Georges Prosper Remi ( 1907 - 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, created the character Tintin, who first appeared in 1929. Hergé wrote a total of twenty-four Tintin stories (the last, Tintin and the Alph-Art, was not completed at his death). He specified that no one else was to write Tintin stories, but due to the popularity of the character, there are quite a few parodies, pornographic versions, and political versions of Tintin, which the Hergé Foundation tries to prohibit. The following are the English titles of the twenty-four Tintin books by Hergé, with links to articles. The first is available only in black and white; the others are available in color. These are in chronological order.

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
Tintin in the Congo
Tintin in America
Cigars of the Pharaoh
The Blue Lotus
The Broken Ear
The Black Island
King Ottokar's Sceptre
The Crab with the Golden Claws
The Shooting Star
The Secret of the Unicorn
Red Rackhams Treasure
The Seven Crystal Balls
Prisoners of the Sun
Land of Black Gold
Destination Moon
Explorers on the Moon
The Calculus Affair
The Red Sea Sharks
Tintin in Tibet
The Castafiore Emerald
Flight 714
Tintin and the Picaros
Tintin and Alph-Art

Tintin on Wikipedia

Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) - Read it.
Tintin and Snowy - Read it,
Hergé (Georges Prosper Remi) - Read it.
Characters in The Adventures of Tintin - Read it.
List of characters in The Adventures of Tintin - Read it.
Settings in the Adventures of Tintin - Read it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settings_in_The_Adventures_of_Tintin
Tintin on Postage Stamps - Read it.
List of Books about Tintin - Read it.

Many of the characters as well as the individual books and films have Wikipedia entries are linked from these pages.

Tintin on the Internet Movie Database (chronological order, with English titles for consistency)

The Crab with the Golden Claws(1947)
Hergé's Adventures of Tintin (television series; 1958 - 1962)
Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece (1961)
Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1964)
Tintin and the Temple of the Sun(1969)
Tintin et la SGM (1970) - animated promotional short film (not included in IMDB)
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972)
The Adventures of Tintin (television series; 1991)
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (2011)

Tintin on the Internet

A Google search returns seven million results for Tintin. So, this list is extremely limited and obviously subjective.

"The Tintin fan's resource" - Go there. (Largest English Tintin resource on the Internet, it seems.)
"Tintin Coloring Pages" - Go there.
"Tintin - A very European hero" - Go there. (Why Tintin is not as popular in the US as in so other countries.)
"Tintin.com" - Go there. (In French, but necessary)
"Tintin Movie" - Go there.
"TintinMovie" on Twitter - Go there.
"Tintin Chat" - Go there. (A Yahoo! group.)
"The Tintin Blog" - Go there. (The first Tintin blog in English, as far as I know.)
"Tintin in America" - Go there. (My blog.)