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Tintin is Danish

Thursday, 15. January 2009, 05:53:50

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After decades of traveling the world in search of adventure with his faithful dog Snowy by his side, the Belgian cartoon character Tintin celebrated his 80th birthday on Saturday. Somewhere in a Copenhagen nursing home, the Danish inspiration for the character smiled with glee.

‘It sounds fun to be the cause of it, doesn’t it? It’s an enormous pleasure,’ Palle Huld says.

The 96-year-old former actor confirmed that Tintin’s creator, Georges Remi, better known by pen-name Hergé, was inspired by a trip undertaken by the Dane when he was just a teenager.

Huld was just 15 years old when he won a newspaper competition to take a trip around the world, marking the centenary of Jules Verne. The adventure, dubbed ‘Around the world in 44 days’, attracted much attention from international media and caught the eye of the Belgian cartoonist.

On his return, he was welcomed by a huge crowd at Copenhagen railway station, just like Tintin in his first adventure, but the Dane admits he has trouble remembering much of his earlier travels.

The first comic strip adventures of Tintin were published in Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle in 1929 and went on to sell more than 200 million books featuring the mystery-solving teenager reporter.

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Darko 15. January 2009, 06:08

Wow. I didn`t know that about Tintin. I was not much of a fan but this is nice story. It is nice that he is still alive, but too bad he is not remembering all of his journey :smile:

Cois 15. January 2009, 07:04

I loved the books more than when TinTin became animated..
Seemed to me killed a heck of alot of animals in the animated series :whistle: his scowl upset me as a kid awww

Kitty 15. January 2009, 07:19

@ Darko ~ Well, being 96 years old, he obviously forgets some things here and there. I was impressed to read that he was playing a part in a movie just 10 years ago. The film was called "The man who refused to die!" :D

@ Cois ~ I've only seen a clip of a Tintin cartoon, and I did not like it. The comic books are so much better! I've read a lot of them too. :up:

Moesring 15. January 2009, 07:23

:idea: Maybe someone should start drawing cartoons about the kitty so she becomes more famous than Tintin. :Zaphira::yes::happy:

Kitty 15. January 2009, 07:25

What a splendid idea! :happy:
Unfortunately I only know one person who can draw, and he never draws me as a kitty. awww

Moesring 15. January 2009, 07:28

You can draw too. I've seen your doodles. :yes:
Maybe you should try drawing cartoons of yourself the next time you are in a boring meeting. :happy:

Kitty 15. January 2009, 07:46

I was at a meeting yesterday, and actually did a lot of doodles there as usual :D But only one kitty, and in silhouette. :smile:
I don't think I draw very well. I can make it look like something, but a comic... :eek:

Moesring 15. January 2009, 07:54

Well, I'd like to see the doodles from the previous day :yes: and I would like to see you try to make a comic. I think you would be quite good at it. You are a multi-talented leader of Catfiania, after all. :swoon::yes:

Think of it this way, any comics you create couldn't be any worse than my movies. :lol:

David Scott Aubrey 15. January 2009, 08:05

There are as many different artistic styles as there are comics ... we expect the first issue up here by the end of the week ... :wink:

r♡se 15. January 2009, 09:12

:cool: I didn't know that about Tintin.

I actually still have a couple of LP's (link here for you youngsters who don't remember what they are) with Tintin's adventures :D.

Kitty 15. January 2009, 09:34

@ Moe ~ I can provide the doodles once I get near a scanner, but I'll pass on the comics and leave that for someone who can draw. :yes:
And I think your movies were quite good. Especially the first one! :yes:

@ David ~ Your expectations are up way too high! :lol:

@ Rose ~ Tintin on LP?! :faint: I didn't even know that comic books came out on LP.

r♡se 15. January 2009, 09:43

Well, it was only squares enough to cover the sleeve, and the story obviously was read (by famous Swedish actors), so it isn't a comic book per se. :cool:

jonpar 15. January 2009, 11:34

Belgians have been the best in the cartoons for a long time
from...let say 1930 to ...1970..
They were better than Disney bc they were warmer and had a "humanistic" message....(i think :confused: :frown: )

Kitty 15. January 2009, 11:47

@ Rose ~ Ah, there were only comics on the sleeve? Not someone reading the story out loud on the album? :idea:

@ Jonpar ~ I must admit that I don't know many Belgian cartoonists. Who is your favourite?

r♡se 15. January 2009, 11:50

Yes, they read (or acted, rather) the story on the album, while there was pictures to look at on the sleeve :D.

Kitty 15. January 2009, 11:52

Oh dear! Let me guess, you have a large basement or ceiling for storing stuff like that! :lol:

Kimmie 15. January 2009, 12:21

I was never really into TinTin, I found it boring. But it is still cool information :up:

Kitty 15. January 2009, 12:21

It has never been my favourite comic character either, but I've read a great deal of them anyway. I think it was my brother's. :smile:

Santa Furie 15. January 2009, 12:24

Tintin helped me learn to read. I went through a bit of a Captain Haddock phase as a kid. :o:

Kitty 15. January 2009, 12:26

Somehow I'm not surprised! :lol:

Captain Haddock is cool. I heard that they have started censoring him here, making his language less colourful. :mad:

r♡se 15. January 2009, 12:52

A large ceiling? It's only a couple of albums :o:.

One of my favourite Belgian cartoons is Willy Vandersteen's Suske en Wiske (Finn & Fifi in Swedish). I even subscribed to the books, so yes - in a way I guess you're right... They are stored in my dad's basement :lol:

Santa Furie 15. January 2009, 13:08

Thanks for the link Rose. So these LP things were like giant CDs yeah? :angel:

Angeliki 15. January 2009, 13:29

One doesn't have to be a fan to appreciate his hard work and admire that age its not a factor here !!
Many things I did not know! very informative!
thanks for sharing!

:heart:



Kitty 15. January 2009, 14:33

@ Rose ~ A couple of albums yes, but I'm sure you've got other albums than those couples. :wink:

@ Angeliki ~ You're very welcome. :up:
I learn a lot of stuff when I do research for my posts, that makes it fun to make them. :happy:

Carol 16. January 2009, 04:48

I haven't heard of this before. Nice post.
Here's his offical website.
http://www.tintin.com/

Aadil 20. January 2009, 05:31

*wonders if anyone actually believes that Mik doesn't know what an LP is* :left:

Kitty 20. January 2009, 06:41

thanks Carol. :smile:

Aadil, no, not when he tried to put up that angelic face. :D

Carol 20. January 2009, 06:53

You are welcome. :smile:

r♡se 20. January 2009, 09:13

Ah! Here's one of the albums I have:
It seems to be going for SEK 69 on an auction site :lol:

Darko 20. January 2009, 09:16

Rose, I think you've said you don't know what is LP P:

r♡se 20. January 2009, 09:31

Nope :D

Darko 20. January 2009, 09:38

P:

Kitty 20. January 2009, 09:42

Ah, Tintin i Hajsøen, I remember that one. Not as an LP though, but as a comic book. :D

r♡se 20. January 2009, 09:49

I don't remember very much from it, but it looks good :D.

theoddbod 28. January 2009, 23:50

I think I read all the Tintin books as a kid :D. Fortunately they didn't try and do a live action version like they did with Asterix (at least, I hope they didn't).

As for not being able to draw, it never stopped Scott Adams p:

Kitty 29. January 2009, 05:02

That's true, Mart. Now that I think of it, one of my favourite Danish cartoonists, Rune Kidde, has a funny way of drawing too:


He is blind now, btw.

r♡se 29. January 2009, 09:40

Tintin - The Movie is right around the corner... http://tintinmovie.org/

Kitty 29. January 2009, 09:44

Oh no!

Santa Furie 29. January 2009, 11:45

That movie's gonna use a hell of a lot of hair gel to keep his hair up. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thompson and Thompson? They look nothing like each other.

Aadil 29. January 2009, 17:15

Can you translate the dialogue on that comic strip please kittylat. awww

Kitty 29. January 2009, 17:27

Of course, but I don't think it's funny in English. Here goes:

- Have you heard about the man who trains animals to write on a typewriter?
- That has got to be a canard!!
- How the heck did you know that?
- Good job Donald!


In Danish we call a canard for a duck. :smile:

Santa Furie 29. January 2009, 17:42

I don't get it.

Kitty 29. January 2009, 17:46

No, because it's a pun, in Danish. :frown:

Santa Furie 29. January 2009, 21:26

Is canard something else?

Moesring 29. January 2009, 22:30

In Danish we call a canard for a duck.

Same as French then. :up: I, unfortunately, had to learn French. :yuck:

I didn't get the pun either. I checked Wikipedia to see if Canard was perhaps a model of typewriter or something and found this little morsel.

Canard is a French word for a duck, and is often used in English to refer to a deliberately false story, originating from an abbreviated form of an old French idiom



I challenge the phrase "often used in English". I've never heard of it before so it is not that common. :knight:

Is the joke something like this perhaps?
"There's a person that has taught animals to use a typewriter"
"That has to be a deliberate false story. :rolleyes:"
"How did you know that it was a duck? :eyes:" (due to the pun the kitty explained above so beautifully. :yes:)

If it is not that, I still don't get it. :down:

theoddbod 29. January 2009, 23:49

I knew both the duck and the story one...and i've used both p:

Another movie to avoid :D

Kitty 30. January 2009, 05:16

Originally posted by Moe:

Canard is a French word for a duck, and is often used in English to refer to a deliberately false story


That's exactly what my dictionary said too (in Danish), so I though everyone (but me) knew it! :D

Yes Moe, your explanation of the comic is right. :yes:


And I am definitely not going to see the Tintin movie either!


Btw Mik, I think it's funny that you call the detectives Thompson and Thompson. Here their names are Dupont and Dupond. :D

r♡se 30. January 2009, 09:13

Dupont here too. I wonder who'll be playing Captain Haddock...

Oh, and Spielberg's involved... :left:

Santa Furie 30. January 2009, 09:39

The guy who played Gollum is playing Captain Haddock.

r♡se 30. January 2009, 09:46

Ah, King Kong!

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