‘We didn’t expect this phenomenon to last’: France’s comic-book tradition is hitting new heights
The market for bédé visual storytelling almost doubled over the course of the pandemic, but can the birthplace of Asterix continue to nurture creators?
August 2023
Blistering barnacles! Tintin mystery in Brussels after bust of Hergé vanishes
The disappearance of a bust of the comic book artist in his Belgian birthplace was thought to be an act of decolonisation
February 2023
Tintin drawing by Hergé sells at auction for record £1.9m
Belgian cartoonist’s black and white artwork from 1942 was used for the cover of Tintin in America
December 2022
Hergé illustration for Tintin in America expected to sell for €2m
The drawing will be auctioned in Paris in February as part of a wider sale of the Tintin creator’s comic-book work
March 2022
Other lives
Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper obituary
Other Lives: Founder of the Open University’s publishing division and co-translator of Hergé’s Tintin books
February 2022
Tintin’s world adventure: comic strip hero joins the Smurfs on new Belgian passport
Designs for official documents celebrate the country’s heritage – and are hard to forge
May 2021
Tintin heirs lose legal battle over artist’s Edward Hopper mashups
French artist Xavier Marabout wins case and €10,000 in damages after Moulinsart contacted galleries displaying his art
March 2021
Hergé's heirs sue artist over his Tintin/Edward Hopper mashups
Xavier Marabout has been accused in a French court of ‘taking advantage of the reputation of a character to immerse him in an erotic universe’
January 2021
Tintin cover art sells for record-breaking €3.2m
Hergé’s original artwork for Le Lotus Bleu was rejected as too expensive to reproduce in 1936 and given to editor’s son, who kept it in a drawer for decades
September 2020
Rejected Tintin artwork to be auctioned with estimate of €3m
Hergé’s original cover for The Blue Lotus auctioned 80 years after it was deemed too colourful
April 2020
My favourite book as a kid
My favourite book as a kid – Tintin: The Shooting Star by Hergé
Despite some dodgy politics, this is an ingenious riff on international rivalry and has an inspiring friendship at its core
Is Tintin a girl? Philosopher says his theory was 'fake news'
After media fuss, Vincent Cespede says playful suggestion that Hergé’s boy detective was a young girl was merely ‘rethinking from another point of view’
July 2017
Books blog
Gil Jordan: the great Belgian detective you've never heard of
Long eclipsed in English by Tintin, Maurice Tillieux’s cool, sharp investigator has a good claim to being the world’s best private eye
November 2016
Tintin drawing sells for record €1.55m in Paris auction
Original artwork by Hergé from Explorers on the Moon was expected to sell for between €700,000 and €900,000
October 2016
Tintin v Asterix: titans go head-to-head in comic festival showdown
‘You cannot sit on the fence. This is the biggie,” say organisers of the Lakes international festival, due to to take place on Friday
May 2016
Original Tintin comic artwork sells for more than €1m
Two pages of Hergé adventure story King Ottokar’s Sceptre auctioned in Paris, achieving higher price than expected
March 2016
Children's books
Blistering barnacles! Hergé's Tintin adventures are the perfect mix of cozy and thrill
Dependable, plucky Tintin is surrounded by a crowd of eccentric goodies and dastardly baddies and their rip-roaring, globe-trotting adventures were Harriet Whitehorn’s ultimate comfort read
February 2016
Readers suggest the 10 best …
Readers suggest the 10 best journalists on screen
Last week we brought you our choice of the 10 best screen portrayals of journalist. Here you tell us who we have missed out
January 2016
Children's books
Tintin: Hergé's masterpiece – in pictures
Celebrate Tintin’s 87th birthday this week by stepping inside the colourful world of Hergé’s creations, displayed in the free exhibition at Somerset House in London, ending 31 January
