The heirs of Hergé, the creator of the popular Tintin comics, were dealt a crushing blow in Dutch court this week. In a shocking decision, the court ruled that they do not have the rights to the ...

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 ...

A picture by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé (1907–1983) has set a new record for the most expensive work of comic book art, selling for €3.2 million ($3.8 million) on January 14 at an auction at ...

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 ...

Although not as obsessively self-referential as Alfred Hitchcock, the cartoonist Hergé shared the film director's habit of making occasional cameo appearances in his own stories. Once you've seen a ...

The overarching motif running through 'Tintin: Hergé's Masterpiece' – a small but perfectly formed new exhibition at Somerset House – is that of windows. The references are the most abundant of the ...

After two years of construction, the Musée Hergé designed by Christian de Portzamparc is complete. Situated in a forest and connected by a footbridge to Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, the museum is ...

Hergé's Tintin first appeared in Belgian magazine Le Petit Vingtième, the weekly supplement for children published every Thursday (a half-holiday from school at the time) in the major Belgian daily ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Assouline devotes more space to Hergé’s work during the Occupation than ...

Why do the Tintin stories have such enduring appeal? Tintinologist Michael Farr recently sat down with The Browser’s Alec Ash to talk about what makes them special, how their creator, Hergé, came to ...

Four decades after the Belgian cartoonist known as Hergé complained that comic book art wasn’t truly appreciated, the Grand Palais in Paris is hosting an extensive retrospective of his work. “I hope ...