Word: tintin
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...Tintin's arrival in Tinseltown is perhaps inevitable: his popularity as a children's literary hero rivals that of other recent transitions from the page to the screen, including Harry Potter, Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings...
...film plans are just part of this year's centenary celebrations. They include two Tintin musicals, a Tintin museum, an exhibition at the Pompidou center in Paris, as well other events in Stockholm, Barcelona and Lausanne. In addition there will be commemorative stamps (Belgium, France and Switzerland), coins and chocolates, among other merchandise, and learned academic seminars...
...adventures of Tintin, a young reporter, were chronicled in 23 books published between 1929 and 1976, which have collectively sold more than 200 million copies worldwide. This was hardly anticipated when a crudely drawn Tintin made his first appearance on January 10, 1929 in a comic supplement to a Brussels newspaper in a story entitled "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets...
...immediate hit with the Belgian public, and was quickly dispatched to other hotspots of the time, from Al Capone's Chicago to Japanese-occupied China. Tintin is ostensibly a reporter, but he never appears to have deadlines or editors; he is actually seen filing a story in only frame over the entire oeuvre...
...Like Jules Verne, Hergé rarely left his desk, but he made Tintin a world traveler, meeting cultures that his creator encountered only in books and magazines. Over the course of the books (Hergé would call them albums), Tintin acquired a panoply of colorful companions: his faithful dog Snowy; his hard-drinking, foul-mouthed friend Captain Haddock; egghead Professor Calculus; bumbling detectives the Thompson Twins; and overbearing opera diva Bianca Castafiore...