Tintin & Snowy; Tintin & Milou; Kuifje & Bobby; Tim & Struppi. Who hasn’t enjoyed the comics of the roving reporter and his little fox terrier? Tintin’s adventures were drawn by Belgian artist Georges Remi, who was better known as Hergé. From 1929 until his death in 1984 he wrote twenty-four of Tintin’s albums. Many of his earlier comics were also published in the Belgian newspaper supplement “Le Petit Vingtième”. This mysterious looking gouache graced the front page and comes from “The Blue Lotus”, published in April 1935, about Tintin’s struggle against a gang of drug smugglers. Titled “Where we see how Mr. Fan-Yeng is taken care off”, it is one of the many artefacts to be sold by Artcurial during their auction of comics on November 21-22. However, gems like these don’t come cheap. Artcurial estimates the Blue Lotus to sell at 35.0000-40.000 euros!








photo copyright Moulinsart / Artcurial

November 19, 2008