Tag Archives: Tintin

Tintin salutes Cadel

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Wim Lockefeer

On the occasion of Cadel Evans‘ impending retirement, team BMC presented him with a custom made and decorated Team Machine SLR01, chronicling the story of his life and successful career as one of the most succesful Australian professional racing cyclists ever. … Continue reading →

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Troll Hunters

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Wim Lockefeer

This month’s cover for the MIT Technology Review was created by parody genius R. Sikoryak, narrowly skirting the line between homage and tracing. (Via Mark and coverjunkie)

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Putintin

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Wim Lockefeer

What better way to reboot this blog than with a picture combining Tintin and silly word play? This clever mashup is one of the many available on Buffalo Bill Gates, along with Spockahontas, Mickey Maozedong, Quentin Tarantina Turner and many … Continue reading →

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Paul Hetherington loves comics and Lego

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Wim Lockefeer

The excellent Lego blog Brothers Brick recently reported on master builder Paul Hetherington winning the Best In Show award at this year’s BrickCon with an hommage to David Petersen’s wonderful graphic novel series, Mouse Guard. This must be my personal favorite Lego … Continue reading →

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Tintin in Indonesia

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Wim Lockefeer

The Belgian Post Office has issued two exclusive stamps for the Indonesian embassy, featuring a panel from the Tintin album, Vol 714 Pour Sidney. In good Belgian tradition, they went for one stamp in French and one In Dutch. They’re not … Continue reading →

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Styles and characters

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Wim Lockefeer

Finnish cartoonist Jaakko Seppälä created this overview of ten iconic comic characters as drawn in each of their typical styles. Left to right, we see Albert Uderzo (Astérix), Bill Watterson (Calvin), Carl Barks (or another Donald Duck artist), Hergé (Haddock), … Continue reading →

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Brecht Evens Paints Tintin

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Wim Lockefeer

In their literary supplement, the Flemish daily De Morgen is currently running a weekly series of short essays on literary figures that were based on actual people. Each time Brecht Evens provided a fantastic piece of art to go with … Continue reading →

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Tintin without Tintin

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Wim Lockefeer

The Dutch Tumblr Who Wants Yesterday’s Papers takes the Garfield Minus Garfield meme of a while back to the limits, and presents iconic Tintin covers without their stories’ main character. Or any character for that matter. It makes for eerily desolate, … Continue reading →

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Belgian comics post stamps 2014

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Wim Lockefeer

For this year, the Belgian Post Office is planning three comics-themed issues, it appears from an overview on philately site Philandria (try finding these on the official BPost site, though).

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Tintin is science

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Wim Lockefeer

If you look at Tintin in a geeky way, and you have an artistic inkling, this is what you get. Jaco Haasbroek did this version of the quiffed one, that’s just screaming to be put on a T-shirt. (via Boing … Continue reading →

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