#tintin in america

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Tintin in America (1946)

[horse-reviews]

Tintin horse

Rating: ƱƱƱƱ (very good)

i am most delighted by the accurate anatomy of this cartoon horse but i find myself deeply concerned by the bullets and ropes flying which threaten to harm the horse. fortunately i have read this book and i know nothing bad happens to the horse but still it is enough to scare me to my bones

[tintinshit]

heheheheh Tintin in his cowboy era

[jimmyandthegiraffes]

Tintin in America (1931-32)

Travel

Train - 3 (as driver - 1)

Car - 5 (as driver - 1)

Motorbike - 1

Accidents - 2 (resulted in injury - 1)

Health

Slept - 3

Ate - 1.5 (ate Bobby Smiles's dinner and drank some of a milkshake but gave the rest to Snowy)

Hospitalised - 1 (after a car crash)

General Peril

Fell off a cliff - 1 (uninjured)

Rocks dropped on him - 1 (uninjured)

Meat grinders - 1 (uninjured)

Lynched - 2 (no serious injury)

Head injuries - 4 (resulting in unconsciousness - 2)

Shot at - 2

Poisoned - 1

Abducted - 3

Unconscious - 3

Wildfire - 1 (uninjured)

Tied to train tracks - 1 (uninjured)

Total injuries - 8 (mostly not serious)

Physical activity

Violent to another person - 11 (usually by hitting them with blunt objects but once by headbutting)

Trees climbed - 1

Horses ridden - 4 (fell off - 1)

Emotions

Angry - 2 (when Snowy is kidnapped and after an attempted lynching)

The Law

Arrested - 1

Imprisoned - 2

Sentenced to death - 1

Rastapopoulos? - yes

QUIFF DOWN - 0!!!!!!!

[ceramicdolphin]

tintin being creepy

[vikkicomics]

Dark...

[all-action-all-picture]

As far as I am aware Al Capone (1899-1947) is the only real person to have appeared in a Tintin story (Tintin in America). There were other characters that were based on real people or made cameo appearances but Capone was the only one who was featured and named.

He was convicted of tax evasion in 1931, the same year this story started to be serialised in Le Petit Vingtième. In that original version the characters face is hidden by a bandana/western outlaw mask but in later versions he is drawn without it.

[mariocki]

[tintinfarsi]

آل کاپون

آل کاپون رئیس دزدان شیکاگو و یکی از شخصیت‌های واقعی در ماجراهای تن‌تن و میلو است‌ که با نام اصلی (Al Capone) در داستان حضور دارد. نام او در کتاب تن‌تن در کنگو، به‌عنوان رئیس یک گروه بین‌المللی قاچاق الماس ذکر شده‌، اما تصویری از آل در آن کتاب وجود ندارد

در ماجرای تن‌تن در آمریکا، آل کاپون از ترس این‌که خبرنگار جوان پرده از جنایت‌ها و تبه‌کاری‌هایش بردارد سعی می‌کند به‌هر شکلی او را از بین ببرد. اما سرانجام با تلاش تن‌تن، او و تمام گانگسترهای شیکاگو دست‌گیر می‌شوند

[harrison-abbott]

classic

[thenewadventuresoftintin]

By Yves Rodier

| Blog curated by @a-soft-creature​ | http://twitter.com/asoftcreature

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

I decided to redraw one of my earliest Tintin fancomics! I've been drawing Tintin fanart for a bit before I started posting online.

I can imagine Tintin having a tumultuous relationship with his editor, hardly ever being in the office and having a very low rate of writing articles. Tintin's increasingly liberal politics also clash with the newspaper's conservative values. Tintin and his editor frequently argue over this but Tintin almost always wins out, as he is aware that it is his articles that sell the paper. His editor is reluctant to let go of his golden goose.

More headcanon under the Read More! It's background stuff and things about his editor.

Tintin started his journalism career at just 14, and seeing the dangerous situations he is sent into in his early stories suggests to me that whoever hired him didn't have his best interests at heart. I can imagine his editor taking advantage of Tintin's ambition and naivety, while styling himself as a sort of father figure to the newspaper he runs. I based him off of the editor we see at the very start of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets!

His editor hires him after Tintin demonstrates remarkable skills in investigative journalism, uncovering local corruption for his school paper. He takes advantage of Tintin's naivety, sending him off to various countries to write conservative propaganda pieces for the paper. He hopes Tintin will be easy to groom into a conservative pundit, but after witnessing atrocities and coming into contact with people from different walks of life, Tintin finds himself unlearning a lot of harmful beliefs he was raised with. After he earns global recognition in Tintin in America, Tintin leverages his star power to ensure less editorial interference with his work. His journey away from conservatism is kickstarted upon befriending Chang, who directly challenges a lot of his preconceptions.

Tintin stays with the paper under the misguided belief that he can steer the publication in a better direction with his influence. Deep down he also feels he owes his editor, as it was him who gave Tintin a platform and an oppurtunity to escape his situation, being raised in an orphanage and being deeply unhappy in school. His editor also frequently points out that other papers will not be as lenient with his low turnover rate of articles, and that he's lucky he's still with them.

After Tintin gets Chang a job there as his photographer, Chang ends up befriending a lot of the staff. He's one of the few non white staff members there, which causes quite the stir. While Chang is grateful for the job, he becomes increasingly uncomfortable with working for them the more he learns about the paper. He tells Tintin that by staying there, he's only legitimising the publication.

Tensions at the paper start rising as political tension rises in Europe. Tintin, Chang, and a lot of staff notice their editor acting erratically and making strange demands...

[senorboombastic]

What’s On Michael Portillo’s iPod: WOOZE

What’s On Michael Portillo’s iPod: WOOZE

Here at Birthday Cake For Breakfast, we like to get to the heart of what an artist is all about. We feel that what influences them is just as important as the music they make. With that in mind, off the back of a run of singles this year and ahead of the release of new EP ‘The Magnificent Eleven‘, we’re delighted to have WOOZE talk us through some records and visuals that helped shape and inspire…

[jimmyandthegiraffes]

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929-30)

Vehicles

Train - 3

Car - 6 (5 times as driver, once as passenger)

Boat - 2

Plane - 2 (once as pilot, once as passenger)

Motorbike - 1

Total: 14 vehicles, 6 crashes

Health

Slept - 3 (snored - 3)

Ate - 2 (one bowl of cabbage soup)

Sneezed - 2

Injuries - received 10 bruises, 13 head injuries (mostly minor), was shot at 3 times and hit once, was knocked unconscious twice. Was chloroformed once but wasn't rendered unconscious.

Frozen - 1

Drunk - 1

Physical Activity

Enacted violence against another person - 12

Trees climbed - 1

Swam - 1

Horses ridden - 1 (badly)

Le Petit Vingtième

Articles written - 1

Emotions

Cried - 2 (once when leaving Belgium and once when he thought Snowy had been killed)

Angry - 3 (twice at Snowy for disobedience)

Danced - 4

Scared - 1 (in a haunted house)

The Law

Arrested - 4

Sentenced to death - 3

Imprisoned - N/A bc i forgot to count

Joined the army - 1

QUIFF DOWN - 4

[kaijutegu]

WHO NAMED THIS HORSE

she's the fastest pacing mare in history and her name is shartin

(I'm doing Horse Research, for work reasons, and there are some great names in harness racing. Wiggleit Jiggleit? Amazing. Precious Bunny? Adorable. Nihilator? Damn, brutal. and then we have... Shartin. And they're not even doing the thing where you combine the parent names to get a new name, because her parents are Tintin In America and Bagdarin.)

[wolffdeservedbetter]

Hello wanna see my AU where Tintin actually gets dragged into the mob stuff in America as a teen?