Now available, The Graphic Mythlogy of Tintin from writer Tim Mountford.
According to Mountford, he has “called it a primer because it’s both an overview of the compete canon of Tintin adventures as well as an introduction to the wider field of Tintinology. Most average readers of Tintin are, I’m sure, quite unaware just how much interpretive work has been undertaken (mostly by French boffins) on these seemingly simple children’s adventure stories. Now the books are being transformed into a Spielbergian franchise with all the attendant toys, happy meals, colouring books and so on, it might seem even more natural to dump them in a ‘kids’ category with every other comic book or CGI cartoon. But I think that would be a mistake and in my book I try to outline the case for approaching these works with a little more critical sensitivity.” (via)
Like the cover art? You can get that too, framed and ready to hang at Optic Module.
