The success of Tintin is due to how Herge created a real but magical world
When Herge started drawing Tintin, it simply himself and a blank piece of paper. He worked quickly to fill the page and meet the publication schedule of the newspaper he worked for. As her got older and Tintin more famous, his [...]
A Hero is Nothing Without Enemies
In 23 books, Tintin, confounded criminals, stopped invasions and foiled dastardly plans. Some of his many enemies appeared time and time again including his arch-nemesis, Roberto Rastapopoulos, a Greek American business man with fingers in lots of illegal activities. In Cigars of the Pharaohs and The Blue Lotus he is [...]
The Milanese Nightingale With the Shattering Voice
Bianca Castafiore is loathed by Captain Haddock and even Tintin’s saint like tolerance is tested in her presence. Despite being a world famous opera singer, adored the world over, she only sings one song, the Jewel Song from Faust.
Ah my beauty past compare,
these jewels bright I wear!…
Was I ever [...]
Bungling detectives who inspired a pop band
Thomson and Thompson are perhaps the stupidest of the regular Tintin cast. Whilst other characters such as Haddock or Calculus cause amusement through stupid actions caused by drink or their own clumsiness. Only Thomson and Thompson regularly inflict failure and injury on themselves.
Though not related (hence the different surnames) [...]
The Absent Minded Genius
Professor Calculus is a genius who invents a submarine, a rocket to the moon and a pill to cure alcoholism though at first, Tintin and Captain Haddock try to get rid of him. Almost deaf and absent minded, Calculus has to sneak himself and his invention on board ship in Red Red [...]
The Lovable Drunken Sea-Dog
After Tintin and Snowy, Captain Haddock is the memorable and consistent of Tintin’s companions. Though he did not join the boy reporter and his dog until The Crab With The Golden Claws, the ninth book in the series.
When first encountered, Captain Haddock is a drunken sea captain. Treated as a joke [...]
A small white dog who saves the day
Tintin’s lifelong companion is Tintin, or Milou in the original French. Snowy is a Wire Fox Terrier though unusually he is pure white unlike his real life counter parts who tend to have brown patches. The breed is not very popular nowadays as it was a hunting [...]
Star of twenty three best selling comic books, Tintin, the ever young boy reporter is still going strong. But where did he come from and why has does this unlikely hero have such staying power?
Tintin is the boy who never grew up yet has had a lifetime of adventures around the world, under the sea [...]
I set up TintinMovie.org when I heard that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson where going to direct the new films. As a life long Tintin fan I was excited by the prospect of Tintin coming to screen but as an SEO entrepreneur I was excited by the opportunities it present. Two feature films by [...]
Welcome to the new look MiceLife
When MiceLife started out it was a simple blog about my other blogs. Over time it drifted away from that, never quite finding a niche for itself. So I would use it as a way of link building to my other websites. Then I thought. Why should I be the [...]