When Hergé submitted his cover illustration for The Blue Lotus in 1936, the cartoonist’s publisher said it was too expensive to reproduce in color. But the gouache and watercolor illustration, ...

Steven Spielberg's animated film "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" will not be released until 2011, but there is already burgeoning interest in its stars, the comic strip ...

After making original comic art auction history just last month with the $5.4 million sale of Frank Frazetta's cover painting for Eerie #23, the famous "Egyptian Queen" painting, Heritage Auctions has ...

The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 1: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets sold on June 8 by Heritage Auctions in a sale of European Comic Art held in Dallas, Texas. The piece is one of the few known ...

Steven Spielberg’s 3-D Motion Capture film “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” is due for release in 2011, but already publishers are hurrying to offer books about the Belgian artist ...

When news that Steven Spielberg planned to make a movie of Tintin, the Belgian comic-book hero, first circulated a few years ago, responses among critics ranged from leeriness to undisguised confusion ...

Another comic book illustration has topped the million dollar mark, with a Tintin drawing by Georges Remi, pen name Hergé, fetching HK $9.6 million ($1.2 million) at Artcurial’s first Hong Kong ...

Hergé made it clear before he died. There were to be no more Tintin books after his death. And its something that his publisher Casterman has adhered to, until now. Well, until 2052, anyway. Because ...

"Billions of blue blistering barnacles!" A French artist from the northern region of Brittany had been sued for his offbeat works merging the world of Hergé’s Tintin with that of American painter ...

With his plus-four knickers, button nose and “squiff” hairdo, Tintin ranks as one of the most recognizable and best-loved characters in comics. However, his creator, Georges “Hergé” Remi (1907-83), ...

In 1954, the Cold War was not even a decade old, and its imprint on pop culture in the form of the spy thriller was still in its infancy. Polygon is diving into the world of espionage throughout ...