With the death of Jacques Martin last week, another celebrated member of the legendary Hergé studios has gone. Régric, the artist who drew the most recent book in Martin’s Lefranc series, pays hommage to Martin by showing his arrival in the Clear Line studio in heaven, where he is greeted by E.P. Jacobs, Bob de Moor and, of course, Hergé himself.
(via Blake, Jacobs & Mortimer)
While visiting the San Diego Comic-Con in 2008, Leigh Walton started a Tintin-themed sketchbook. He’s on his second actual book now, and so far he has collected about a hundred different sketches. Among those the Thompson triplets above by Eddie Campbell, but also very good sketches by luminaries like Alex Robinson, Jim Valentino, Jim Woodring, Jeffrey Brown and many more. Truly a sight to behold.
(via Kevin Cannon’s Big Time Attic – just to be on the safe side : Tintin Copyright © Hergé / Moulinsart 2009)
A few months ago, Belgium celebrated the opening of two museums dedicated to the work of two of its most important, or at least most iconic, artists : René Magritte and Hergé. And that proved a good opportunity for Focus Magazine’s Karl Meersman to bring the two together in one image that is at once a tribute and a subtly critical jab.
(cartoon © Karl Meersman, 2009)
The Contemporist has some nice photographs of the new Hergé Museum in Louvain-La-Neuve, as designed by Christian de Portzamparc. I’m very impressed – I particularly like the way they used graphical elements from Hergé’s artwork, blown up to life-sized volumes, as decoration, and that the positioning of the windows alludes to a sequence of panels in a comic.
I’m quite curious to see this for myself.
(photography by Nicolas Borel)
This cartoon by Kim Duchateau in tuesday’s De Morgen explains the result of Moulinsart’s handling of the press at the opening of the new Hergé museum in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. For more, check my post at Forbidden Planet.
As an aside to this, the Musée Hergé had better take care of the SEO of their website – if you enter “musee herge” as search terms in Google, the official site only shows up as tenth ranked item…
Just imagine what would have happened had Hergé been working today, and had he been under the influence of manga… <shudder>
This portrait of Tintin creator Hergé was drawn by Belgian illustrator, designer, typographer and cartoonist Lucien De Roeck in the early 80’s.
Klare Lijn virtuoso and very nice guy in general Peter Van Dongen paraphrases the classic cover to Hergé’s Tintin Au Pays Des Soviets in this illustration for the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad’s books section. The article was a review of the collected works of Karel Van Het Reve, a Dutch writer and journalist, who for a long time was the Moscow correspondent for the Parool daily.
(illustration © Peter Van Dongen)
Flemish cartoonist Tom Bouden, best known for his series of gay comics, recently published a quite lovely album called “Paniek in Stripland” (Panic in Comic Land). It’s a book that pays hommage to everything that made classic Flemish comics great, and features every Flemish comics character that has been around since the sixties.
The storyline is quite simple : a plot by the united comics villains has resulted in the disappearance of all comic heroes. After an urgent meeting by the united comics creators, two lesser-known hopefuls, Kroepie and Boelie Boem Boem are asked to come to the rescue.
While most of the story will be beyond everybody who wasn’t raised on a steady diet of Jommeke, De Rode Ridder and Suske & Wiske (not to mention Thomas Pips, Dees Dubbel and others), some of the scenes might be quite intriguing for those interested in Eurocomics. Take the scene pictured above, presenting the cartoonists council mentioned before. We see Hergé presiding over the meeting, but the careful observant also will recognize many more comics luminaries.
In the top-right frame the following cartoonists are present : Pom (of Piet Pieter & Bert Bibber fame), Marc Legendre (Biebel), Erik Meijnen, Marc Sleen and Jan Bosschaert. In the frame directly below, we see, a.o. Jef Nys, Dirk Stallaert, Paul Geerts, Maurice De Bevere (Lucky Luke), Bob De Moor, Raoul Cauvin and André Franquin. The older guy with the sideburns in the third strip is Willy Vandersteen, creator of Suske & Wiske and one of the founding fathers of Flemish comics.
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