#tintin in alph art

[dimdiamond]

Hi,love your page by the way!although I have always been a fan of tintin myself I didn't know there was a large fandom about it in here or on insta or ..too I'm quite surprised and happy about it,just wanted to know your thoughts oon his last adventure alph art,I wish hergecould've finished it,so what do you think of it?I think it was a pretty good and modern story

Hello 👋 Thank you for your kind words and I'm glad you like my chaotic page 💕 I think you can consider Tintin fandom huge compared to some other smaller but in the grand scale of fandoms we're kinda a quiet corner so enjoy your stay!

OH BOY ALPH ART! Thank you for this question because I do have some thoughts on it!

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD (for anyone not having read it yet)

The short version: I enjoyed reading it and I consider it part of the canon but no way it's perfect.

The long version:

I'll begin with the things that seem off with me or could be handled better.

First of all Martine. No, I don't dislike her and I don't want her out, god knows how much in need we are in this fandom for female characters. I do see in her a lot of potential and the way she was handled in the end leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. She was reduced to being a fan of Tintin while Tintin didn't show to her any more interest than for the case itself. I would love their dynamic to be developed more as Tintin needs a) girl friends and b) friends around his age and Martine combines them. She herself could be a more active ally for Tintin and co like Bianca is and especially in this case she could shine with her knowledge of the art world or at least volunteer to help with finding more clues. I know these all are random ideas but the main point is that Martine deserved more. And don't let me start with the vague last scene when she asks Tintin to meet her parents (gurl WHY? he showed you the basic level of interest, you can do better) and we never see his answer (that's a huge relief because if the company wanted him to have a girlfriend in the last page of the last album I would revive from the dead Herge himself to finish them off).

The appearances of many characters, although I enjoyed them, seem too random even for the series standards. They kinda enhance the feeling of this is the last album, saying a last goodbye to them, but they could be used a bit more tied to the main plot or the main duo, if it makes sense what I'm saying.

Ramo Nash could have a stronger role as a new secondary but with a key role character. It felt he had a nice build up only to be left aside and in the finale to be shown again.

As you can see my least favourite things of the album are the parts of the story that Herge might have handled differently (according to his notes anyway, which still don't mean anything as many times he tossed away notes in many of his stories) and I may be feeling that way because of my prejudice as I know someone else did the rest of the album. Herge died before finishing it so, in my opinion, there's no point in trying to guess how he would do it or believe he would necessarily do it better- he was a genius in many things but god damn he would sacrifice anything for a good joke.

The things I did like a lot are surprisingly many.

First of all I LOVE how Tintin is handled. Let me explain. This is the last album, Tintin at this point has been through a lot of things and has survived even more and he has already shown his need to live a more peaceful and calmer life at home (after Tibet is too obvious). And what we see from our hero? His signs of PTSD like he's instinct to lay down immediately after a loud sound at the gas station because he thought it was a gunshot while it was just a tire or something. And it's not only that. Before that he ran to Haddock's room because he was scared for the worst. I know these aren't new for Tintin or something unusual but take into consideration that we haven't seen Tintin being falsely in alarm (usually there's a reason to be in tense or he's proven to be right soon after) and most of all WHY? Why are we shown this scene? Was it only for a cheap joke? The rest of the album makes me to doubt that and to seriously consider that if we had a continuation of the series Tintin's new perspective of life and dealing with his trauma would be a recurring theme.

Continuing with Tintin, he is again reluctant to be involved in a new case until he is asked by the gallery owner himself to help. What's even more interesting is not his usual reaction of not a big deal when later he gets in danger and is saved by luck but Haddock's reaction which is more exasperated and direct than ever to his message: next time you may NOT be saved. I feel like at this point Tintin KNOWS he is right, he fully realises this but he DOESN'T KNOW how to stop it. In this adventure he tries his best to take measures while still doing his work as he always did.

My thoughts may sound bonkers but I truly believe they are a result of the "nightmare" sequence Tintin has as he is hanged up. Like every dream sequence in the series where the images resemble a lot the in real life dreams while still working as story devices (something that I truly admire and love in Herge's stories), here too Tintin has his thoughts being pictured very vividly. He sees himself as his appearance in the first books, with the yellow shirt and red tie, saying that he hasn't worn that a long time now, and then he is hanged up by his own tie. I think it is obvious that at this point Tintin considers himself too different than his old self and even when he is caught up on nostalgia or even the expectations he and everyone has on him he knows he can't be that person anymore. The reasons might be both physical, as he understands better the danger and values more his life, and phycological, as the pressure of keep being the Tintin everyone knows and the only version of himself he knew he could be, is too much and suffocating. He has been changing all this time and now he is going through the phase of discovering who he has become.

Haddock was a delight in this album too. I know Herge had prepared more for him (like obviously, Herge was this close to rename the series the adventures of Captain Haddock) but he was still fun and in the end unapologetically himself. The scene when he saves Tintin from the trap is still one of my favourites, as well as the final one with the statue, I still laugh with the whole situation.

Rastapopoulos being behind everything fits as the last story and him dying by falling from a cliff was so poetic, his first fake death was his real one too. Not to mention that this is the first and last time Haddock meets him, as no one remembers the events of Flight 714 to Sydney, and it's so hilarious if you think about it.

The comment on art world during the time Herge wrote it is one of the most interesting things for me in this album. If you haven't tried to understand at least the mechanics of art world you'll never understand Herge's (and many of us who tried to) disappointment with it. Herge criticises the groundbreaking artwork that art critics supposedly declare that postmodern art does and most of all the real interest behind the ones with influence in the art world which is of course money. Herge's commentary is more on the mechanics and the market in this world than if a letter can be art- which soon becomes just a running gag.

Overall it's a good album to read and I don't understand the hate (as I don't understand the hate for any of the albums except the second one you all know which I am talking about). Some things could be better, some others were fine and some were great and everyone can agree or disagree which things are these. I wish we could have Herge's version too to talk about, although most of all I wish we could have Thermozero script at least *coughtintinimaginatiogiveittousfinallycough*.

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

Prof. Calculus, I can endure any hardship if there’s resolution on the other side, do Martine and Tintin ever reconcile?

Martine is now incredibly wary of Tintin and the danger he brings. It will take some time for her to start trusting him again. Tintin doesn't know how to handle friendship problems without doing some wild stunt, nor does he know how to handle not being fully in the right.

Context - this is the aftermath of this story where Tintin steals an ancient whistle from a museum archive Martine works at to return it to its original owners (but more so to impress Chang after he points out how a lot of museum artefacts are stolen!). A noble thing to do, but very poorly executed and with arguably selfish intentions...

[jimmyandthegiraffes]

What fresh hell is this

[tintinology]

Obsessed with this portrait of Haddock from the comics' endpages

[theblotofink]

Proof that tintin is Chaotic Evil (but in a non-evil way) ™ and also A Little Bit Tired ™

[oakhold-cheerios]

something for a future art project to ward off the occasional art block and the fatigue from thinking too much.

[tintinfarsi]

تن‌تن و هنر الفبا

کتاب تن‌تن و هنر الفبا آخرین شاه‌کار هرژه است که مرگ وی فرصت تمام‌شدن آن‌را از همه گرفت. ما هیچ‌گاه نخواهیم فهمید که او چه پایانی برای این کتاب درنظر گرفته بود. هرژه کار بر روی این داستان را در ۱۹۷۸ شروع کرد. وی در سال ۱۹۸۳ درگذشت و سه‌سال بعد در ۱۹۸۶ دست‌نوشته‌ها و نقاشی‌های مدادی او به‌چاپ رسید

[kurjakani]

Obsessed with haddock sketches ( from tintin & alph-art)

[aboardthescheherazade]

Part 2 to the Rastapopoulos timeline post. I call these two the "Ironic End" and the "Bad End":

Ironic end: After the events of Flight 714 to Sydney, an amnesiac traveller wakes up on the beach of a tropical island. The locals take him in, and they figure out just enough to know he's probably from the Mediterranean; maybe he fell off a migrant ship, but there haven't been any travelling worker ships in the area recently. Eventually, he puts together some kind of new name, and begins working at the docks to make a living. He's drawn to a handful of things - ships and new movies, mainly - but nothing clear ever comes through. He lives the last years of his life as a short-tempered but nice-enough port foreman who mostly keeps to himself outside of work. His coworkers in town mourn him, but over time, he just fades away into the rest of the island's history.

Bad end: Playing yet another role, and likely having gone through some degree of ego death, "Endaddine Akass" emerges in the tropics as a spiritual advisor and art collector. His "practices" are mostly just a mishmash of Christianity, Islam, Daoism, and Rastafarianism. He gets underground plastic surgery to subtly alter his face just enough to be able to appear in the media without someone recognizing mugshots from his "past life". Rastapopoulos has found a new way to worm his way into the public zeitgeist, and all it took was completely sacrificing his identity and his dignity. This design came about while talking with ProfCal...his Alph-Art version would take place during the late 1930s-early 40s, and it got me thinking about a period-accurate Endaddine Akass. I adapted a number of details from Herge's speculative design, most notably the faux third eye, and the sort-of Magen David at the top of his staff. I can tell it's not meant to outright signal Judaism; I see it as an example of 20th Century western esoterism's rampant cultural appropriation (i.e. he'd probably try to claim it's a hexagram symbolizing elements, or something), plus, it's regionally accurate: the Magen David is an important piece of iconography in Rastafarianism. It was a very new religion in the late 1930s, which would make Akass fairly predatory for stealing aspects of Rastafarian imagery. (We also considered him pretending to be White Jamaican, accent and all, which would go to show how far "Akass" is willing to humiliate his old self just to live as a debutante. Have you ever heard Steven Seagal pretend to be Jamaican? That's what we're dealing with here)

Regardless of the ending you choose to follow, I still tried to make either of them relatively within Herge's writing style. He was fond of using big finales, and themes of karma and turnabout, so I considered both of these when pondering Rastapopoulos's fate at the end of the Tintin series. (I have thought way too much about Rastapopoulos, I know. The shmuck haunts me like an awful poltergeist ^^;)

[misspeppermint2003]

Tintin (The Adventures of Tintin)

Facts

Created by Hergé (1907-1983) in 10th January 1929

Journalist, Freedom fighter

Brussels, Belgium

Lives in 26 Labrador Street with a pet wire fox terrier dog named Snowy

Physical Appearance

Strawberry-blond hair styled in a quiff

Pale skin with rosy cheeks and light freckles

Turquoise-green eyes

Blue sweater crew-neck with white shirt beneath it

Brown plus fours, black shoes and socks

Appearances

All 24 comic books (including Tintin and Alph-Art) (1929-1983)

Hergé's Adventures of Tintin (1957-1966)

Tintin and the Golden Fleece (1961)

Tintin and the Blue Orange (1964)

Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969)

Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972)

The Adventures of Tintin (1991-1992)

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011)

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

What's your take on Tintin and Alph-Art?

i propose an alternative cover

might spoil rastapopoulos' plan tho

[jimmyandthegiraffes]

Lost in the fucking sauce

[bartoonist]

Tintin in an Isekai Fantasy World: I made this at my ECF Art Studio in Inglewood about a week ago, only to realize a week later just now how I forgot to post it on the day I finished this Tintin Fan Art Illustration last week, well anyway, this is an Isekai Tintin fan art illustration of Tintin and Archibald Haddock in an Isekai Novel Fantasy World I just wanted to draw for fun, it was originally going to be titled: Tintin and the Seven Witches of Sin since it was originally going to be a Tintin x Re:Zero crossover fan art piece, but since I didn’t think to add in a Re:Zero Character to go with this Tintin Isekai illustration, which I’ll admit in hindsight: that’s probably whoever I should’ve drawn in this Tintin Fan Art piece with Tintin and Haddock to convey that its technically a Tintin x Re:Zero mashup picture, but all I did was just draw the Re:Zero background of Lugunica no crowds in it whatsoever, I just thought it would be fun to imagine what a direct spiritual sequel to the unfinished final Tintin Story: Tintin and Alph-Art would look like if Tintin got Isekai Reincarnated to another after the bittersweet cliffhanger event of when Tintin was held at gunpoint by a thug behind his back and told Tintin he was going to be turned into a Caesar Statue, which was the last thing Hergé drew before he eventually died of Cardiac Arrest at old age due to being in his 70's in the early 1980's at that time, I had some fun drawing Tintin and Haddock wearing Isekai fantasy reincarnate clothes, and I hope you folks like it anyway of course.

[tintinology]

Feel free to share your reasoning!

[dimdiamond]

19, 21, 38 and 40 for Tintin asks please 🥺

YAY MORE THANK YOU 💕

19. A character whose outfit you would wear?

21. A series you would want to crossover with Tintin?

Hmm the most obvious and most wanted by many is a crossover with other bd comics, Blake and Mortimer, Spirou and Fantasio etc. But I would love to see Poirot and Tintin working together!!! Sherlock would be an interesting choice too!

In general a safe crossover would be with any detective/action media!

But if you ask for unsafe... Oh dude so many crazy ideas fr 😂

38. Which is your favorite adventure from Tintin comics and why?

THIS QUESTION IS CRIMINAL!

Alright my favourite (considering the plot, the characters, the concept, the themes, the stakes, the impact it had) is Tintin in Tibet. It's simply a masterpiece! The simple but deep premise of the adventure, which is to find Chang, that leads to, not only the best showcase of the characters' personalities (Tintin's faith and determination, Haddock's loyalty, Chang's willpower), but also the biggest conflicts between the main duo (from Haddock's clear opposition to Tintin's wish to Tintin's clear statement that if we die we die together). The characters grow so much during this intense adventure and they're not the same after it, you can see it by looking at the following stories! Also it's a very fun story, with many comedic moments besides the intense and moving ones! The only minus is that I would like a conclusion with Tintin, Chang and Haddock being shown together finally calm and safe and sound!

40. Any idea for a new Tintin's adventure?

Lots of them! Tintin's world is open for many possibilities! I would like to see more stories in Marlinspike, a story that follows soon after the Alph Art finale, an adventure in China with Chang this time and in general many other countries and cultures and old friends the duo could meet!

[oakhold-cheerios]

Someone should buy the rights to tintin away from these people jesus

Can't believe Moulinsart turned Tintin into an actual "Cèsar". Those bloody morons

idk man, This whole Tintin NFT montgomery instantly made me think about how Tintin and Alph-Art ended...

The way Tintin and Alph-Art ended with the guard saying 'It's time for you to be turned into a "Cèsar"...' as Tintin's sent to his demise feels so... prophetic.

Hergé knew that his fate has been sealed, and so would the entire Tintin franchise, but he didn't know that his little man Tintin would be actually, and literally, turned into fake art by people who are money-driven and heartless, and that's just sad and disappointing; by the very people who were tasked to protect his creations from plagiarisms and the like :(

It's a reminder that NFTs are fake art. Forgeries! Duplicates that are not and never beneficial to anybody, at all. Same with those damn AI Art stuff. I will not encourage these ideals at all! Not now, not ever!