“The comic that brings adventures to life in images from ages 7 to 77” is the motto that has always set the tone for Tintin magazine. Starting this Friday, the French publication returns to the newsstands for a “unique and creative” edition, which commemorates the 77th anniversary of the publishing house Éditions du Lombard.
With more than 400 pages, the reissue of Tintin magazine is the result of a collaboration between 80 authors who were asked to review famous cartoon characters, such as Blake and Mortimer, Alix, Clorofila, Asterix, Lucky Luke, Corto Maltés or Valerian.
“After a first collection of 777 pages was published in 2016 with stories from the Belgian edition of Tintin, this second collection, with the same number of pages, will also bring together stories, many of which were published exclusively in the French edition. “The great authors who made the history of the newspaper will be present,” reads a note published on Le Lombard’s website.
Hergé’s creation emerged in a post-war period and was like a “rebirth” of French and Belgian culture. TO TSFThe director of the Portuguese festival Amadora BD, Nelson Donas, remembers his “determining role in promoting new heroes.”
The reporter Tintin and the adventures with his friends, Captain Haddock and the dog Milou had an enormous global impact in the world of comics, giving its name to the French magazine in September 1946. The publications were mostly collected in album collections of comics, which, as Nelson Donas explains, “brought complete stories that people previously put together to make an album.”
Also on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of Éditions du Lombard, the Belgian Comic Museum hosts the exhibition “Le Lombard, une affaire de famille”, which presents visitors with reproductions and some originals of the famous authors of the magazine Tintin, between 9 September 2023 and August. 25, 2024.
Source: TSF
