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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...

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which one is better my tintin stans?

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Old phone doodles of Tintin that I had planned to clean up and color on my tablet, but I keep forgetting!!! :oP

So i’m just going to show them now in case I never do!

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White Boy Goes Dancing Part The Second! Follows from this!

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Trying to learn how to do this artstyle! Or at least a version of it. I really like drawing in this style thus far.

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some self indulgent concepts for a 20-something year old Chang where he becomes Tintin’s photographer. I wanted him to have a slightly eccentric sense of style to reflect his playful personality.

as my Area 51 post where Chang and Tintin are middle aged did well I was speculating on what would have happened between the “canon” timeline and them being in their mid-40s, just to get a better idea of what their relationship would be like! A Lot of background stuff beneath the cut, cw for mentions of racism and homophobia  - buckle up boyos:

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UNDERWEAR!

don’t ask me why I drew this, I just did xD and also love to sketch male bodies ;P

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“Dreams are just dreams.”

aka tiny boy reporter is definitely traumatized by all the times someone tried to kill him in every way possible, and we all know that. 

Thank heavens for Snowy!

Tfw you like the colors but the pose sucks. ಠ_ಠ

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the most anticipated comic from this blog: White Boy Goes Dancing (follows directly from this)

Everyone's been sending me asks for this! I have a second part to this planned for the future. Watch this space!

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anonniemouse made me do it even though it’s already…the day

I added Thomson & Thompson

because BABBUS

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Some fun Tintin colouring book art, rescued from Facebook

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Chang: I can help carry-

Tintin: No no, it’s alright, I got it!

Snowy: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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Uhm.. Maybe Tintin and Haddock in tuxedos? I dunno, just a suggestion :)

happy to provide !! inspired by a mutual's fic where they get matching suits 👉👈

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Some iconic fits from the comics

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how the HECK do people draw tintin well- I literally cannot. It’s like his design is… too simple?

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Going back to drawing Tintin in comic form

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