Comments on: Novel about older Tintin creates controversy

by: Jacques

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:14:56 +0000

Hi,
What is the email of the author of this news?

Thank

by: Pedro Bouça

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:22:13 +0000

Tuten’s book was authorized (by Hergé himself, no less!), this one isn’t. So there you go.

And it’s one thing to do a book about Tintin and a Tintin book. The former can be done without authorization (except for image reproductions), the later can’t.

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

by: Scott Koblish

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:14:25 +0000

Well, it’s not like Tintin meets Mina Harker and Mr. Hyde and fights Martians, or hooks up with Wendy and Dorothy in prewar Europe. That would be something to complain about.

by: Torsten Adair

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:39:31 +0000

Idea: Tintin and Jimmy Olsen sitting in a bar, circa 1973, discussing how the world has changed since the 1950s…

Or, a memoir told in flashback, about Tintin’s adventures post-1960s…

by: David Bird

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:24:05 +0000

This isn’t the first time someone has tried to do a Tintin story with ‘adult’ themes, though it does sound more legitimate than Tintin in Thailand.

by: Matthew Craig

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:48:00 +0000

I’m sure I have a grown-up Tintin novel here somewhere…yes! “Tintin in the New World,” by Frederic Tuten!

Susan Sontag likes it!

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by: Ellen Lindner

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:36:04 +0000

This is a classic case of a ban making things more interesting. I wouldn’t have been very keen to read this if I’d seen this advertised, but now that I know it’s risqué enough to have bothered the Hergé estate….hotcha! It piques the curiosity.
I wonder what the estate would have to say “Tintin and the Secret of Literature”…regardless, I think ‘rebel Tintin studies’ is shaping up to be a pretty fascinating little academic sub-genre.
Thanks for this!