Artnet

The Original Drawing for the First-Ever Cover of Tintin, the Beloved Belgian Comic, Could Fetch More Than $1.3 Million at Auction

The drawing will be sold at Heritage Auctions in Dallas this June. Hergé, cover for The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 1: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1930). The artwork is expected to hammer down at ...
Artnet

This Rare Color Tintin Drawing Just Sold for €3.2 Million, Setting a New World Record for an Original 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 ...
Polygon

When Tintin entered the Cold War

In 1954, the Cold War was not even a decade old, and its imprint on pop culture in the form of the spy thriller was still in its infancy. Polygon is diving into the world of espionage throughout ...