(Lev Grossman writes about books here every Wednesday. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) Me, I don’t remember a time before Tintin. I grew up on him — those big floppy paperback editions you could ...

The drawing will be sold at Heritage Auctions in Dallas this June. Hergé, cover for The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 1: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1930). The artwork is expected to hammer down at ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION: ANIMATION EXAMINED ANIMATION EXAMINED The Art of The Adventures of Tintin by Chris Guise Sometimes, even a reviewer is a force for good. Decades ...

Herge’s famous boy reporter certainly liked to stray from his native Belgium. Tintin’s official profession may be that of a reporter, but he is just as much an explorer and archaeologist, dashing ...

Deep in the heart of almost any child, there hides a secret wish to, at least on occasion, be an orphan. Free of all parental control, rudderless, able to decide what one will eat, where one will go ...

Although Steven Spielberg got crazy rich from all those CGI-heavy Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park roller-coaster movies, I’ve always preferred his films when there’s a kind of tension between his ...

BRUSSELS — He turns 80 this year but still looks 18, with the same fair-haired quiff. Like Madonna and Sting, two other famous blonds, he goes by one name. Mention him and a European is likely to ...

He may be fictional, he may have emerged from comic books, but for many, Tintin is an inspirational adventurer for all time. And now, Belgium’s greatest hero is set for the ultimate escapade, as two ...